A View Park family is searching for answers after their house was tagged with racist graffiti on Halloween, sparking concerns inside of their own home and throughout the community.
“It may have happened to me, but it happened to this whole neighborhood,” said Nelson Garbutt. “Because if they didn’t stop it here, it can go on and on and on.”
The Garbutts say that they have no known enemies and that they don’t have any ongoing fights, so they’re completely unknown why they were targeted, especially after making another jarring discovery on Saturday morning.
“I noticed this bottle down here, and I saw a paper towel hanging out of it,” said Nelson Garbutt. “The paper is burnt, like it’s been set on fire.”
The item, which he believes resembled a torch, was found on the street outside of his house just moments after he joined a number of community advocates at a press conference.
“There are way too many acts of hate happening in our country,” Robin Toma, with the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations during the conference.