from Wicked Local Milton

A 24-year-old carpenter charged with hate crimes in the attack on a black man from Randolph allegedly told police he had been drinking enough alcohol to have “two people fail” a breath test.

Police allege that Robert Clarke of Milton hit the 45-year-old man with a wooden stake after someone in a group of white males that included Clarke yelled a racial slur at the Randolph man and demanded to know where he was going in the neighborhood. (Read the full story here.)