A View Park family is searching for answers after their home was tagged with racist graffiti on Halloween, sparking concerns in their own home and throughout the community.
“It may have happened to me, but it happened to this whole neighborhood,” Nelson Garbutt said. “Because if they don’t stop it here, it can just keep going and going.”
The Garbutts say they have no known enemies and no ongoing battles, so they are completely unknown as to why they were targeted, especially after making another shocking discovery on Saturday morning.
“I saw this bottle down here and I saw a paper towel hanging out of it,” Nelson Garbutt said. “The paper is burned, as if it was set on fire.”
The object, which he said looked like a torch, was found on the street in front of his home shortly after he joined several community activists at a news conference.
“There are far too many acts of hate happening in our country,” Robin Toma of the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations said at the conference.
Garbutt says the first discovery, which happened on October 31, came when his daughter discovered her car had been spray-painted. They then found more posts tagged with obscene racist language on the sidewalk and near their side fence.
“We were just stunned. We were in shock, is this a joke?” said Garbutt. “You couldn’t figure out who and why, and what’s the reason?”
They reported the incident to the police at the time, but in the two weeks that followed, he said, they were unable to think of anyone who would threaten them, something that has never happened in the almost thirty years they have lived in the region. area.
The Garbutts have since cleared up the vandalism, but the real damage to their well-being remains.
So far, they say they have been unable to locate security cameras at homes or schools in the area, but they told both police investigators and the NAACP about the discovery he made Saturday morning, hoping it will set a new level their research would add.
