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Racist, Vulgar Graffiti Defaces Neighborhood

Offensive Graffiti Painted On Cars, Fences On Southside

POSTED: Thursday, April 2, 2009
UPDATED: 7:58 pm EDT April 2, 2009

A Southside neighborhood spray-painted with racist and other offensive graffiti upset neighbors and left police searching for a culprit on Thursday.
Road Sign Vandalized
A southside neighborhood is tagged with graffiti.

The graffiti was spray-painted all over street signs and fences and even on the cars of some residents near Ivey Road and Town Square Court.

"Some were about black people. Some of it was about white people. Some of it was about Nazis," said one resident.

No matter to whom they were directed, all of the spray-painted messages were offensive.

People in the Southside neighborhood said someone brought hate into their homes with the derogatory words and phrases.

"It's discriminating, and you have little kids looking at it and going home to ask their mom, 'What is this?' You try to (keep) them away from all that, not bring them to that," said Teleford Cruse.

Cruse, a father of three, said his the family neighborhood where he lives is no place for the kind of language recently found spray-painted in the area. He said some neighbors are terrified because the vandals hit two SUVs. Their vehicles' owners were trying to get the hate speeches removed.

"You try to move to a good neighborhood, but they bring it in from whereever they're at here. So good neighborhoods are bad neighborhoods, and bad neighborhoods are good neighborhoods. It's the people, not the neighborhood," Cruse said.

Neighbors said they were trying to wash the hateful graffiti off but it was difficult task. They also said they would really like to catch whomever is responsible for the vandalism.

Anyone with information about the graffiti is asked to call police.
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