A white North Carolina woman is the subject of a criminal investigation after stealing a “Black Lives Matter” sign out of another person’s front yard. The theft was caught on the victim’s Ring camera located near the property’s front door.
According to WSOC-TV, an unidentified woman trespassed on Melanie Larkey’s property with the sole aim of removing the sign from her yard on Friday, March 11, around 1:30 pm.
The ginger-haired woman got out of a black sedan and marched up the grass to the sign. Before pulling up the sign, she waved at the camera. Then she retreated back to the car.
The homeowner was in her house during the crime but did not know anything was happening at the time. It was not until she reviewed her camera’s footage that she became aware of the violation.
“Surprised and unsettled are going to be the two words I’m going to use,” Larkey said when asked to describe how she felt.
She continued, “It was really unnerving. Her abrasiveness and walking into my yard and stealing something that didn’t belong to her.”
“Then she even waved at the camera,” Larkey recalled. “And then made some distasteful remarks when she got back to the car she was in.”
The community of Starmount in south Charlotte, North Carolina, boasts approximately 2,800 people throughout its two ZIP codes (28210 and 28217). A predominately Hispanic and white neighborhood, less than 7 percent of the people that live in the area identify as African American, City-Data.com reports.
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