Two teenagers were charged as adults yesterday in what police say was the racially motivated beating of an elderly black fisherman.

Zachary Watson, 17, and Emmanuel Miller, 16, told police they were with Calvin E. Lockner when he attacked the man early Tuesday in a city park on the Patapsco River, but they claimed not to have participated in the beating, according to charging documents.

Nicknamed 'Hitler'

Lockner, 28, a white supremacist who uses 'Hitler' as a nickname and has a tattoo of the Nazi leader, was arrested shortly after the beating. He told police the attack would not have happened if the victim had been white, court documents show.

The three suspects, who are white, were charged with attacking the victim because of his race.

Maryland's hate crime law allows prosecutors to seek tougher penalties for crimes motivated by race.

Racial slurs

James A. Privott, 76, was punched, kicked and struck with a baseball bat while his assailants yelled racial slurs, according to charging documents in Lockner's case. The three fled in Privott's SUV, which crashed after police tracked it down with the aid of a theft-recovery device, the court files show.

Privott lost two teeth and suffered a possible broken eye socket. He was released from the Univer-sity of Maryland's Shock Trauma Center Wednesday night, a hospital spokesperson said.