Racial slurs litter Montgomery community
The Montgomery Police Department is investigating a possible hate crime that happened over the weekend– as residents in the majority-black community of Dannelly Pines near the Montgomery Regional Airport awoke Saturday morning to find racially motivated slurs and symbols painted on their homes and property.
It happened Friday night when someone vandalized property in the Dannelly Pines neighborhood on Richardson Road, breaking windows of homes, spray-painting symbols and words that can only be described as cowardly and hateful.
Residents are left to question the peace of their typically peaceful community.
“It’s just a terrible thing man, for us our neighbors and things like that you know, to wake up the next morning and to know that you got all these racial n words on your car swastikas and stuff like that and just damage your property. And not only that but came so close to the security of your home in the middle of the night,” Otis Ramos told Action 8 News.
One homeowner is working with police to solve this case and says he believes it could be connected to an incident that happened earlier Friday night at a nearby gas station.
Police were called to investigate at about 6:40AM Saturday. Police Maj. Saba Coleman said the department is looking at the act as a hate crimes violation and will present a report to federal investigators.
Coleman says police will update the public and announce progress in this case.
Residents have scheduled a community meeting Tuesday night with the theme,”Hate Has No Home Here.” It’ll be at the Dannelly Pines Park at 6 p.m., rain or shine.
