On Sunday morning Leroy Red realized what vandals had done while he slept.
“There was dog crap right here,” Red said, pointing to the stairs to the front door of his Madrona neighborhood home.
His son captured the pictures. There were dog feces on the stairs, dog feces on the walkway, dog feces on a Black Lives Matter sign stolen from another neighbor's yard and placed here.
Asked if he sees this as a hate crime, Red responded, “Yes, I do. Yes I do, I do.”
Seattle police took a report and a spokesman says they have assigned a bias crime investigator to review the case.
Red and his fiancée have lived here for more than 30 years.
“There is no problem in this neighborhood that I know about with any of the people here,” he said. “These all are nice people.”
People like neighbor Phillip Smith, who helped Leroy Red clean up. “It is offensive it's very offensive. You know you wonder where that came from because I know it's not from the people here,” Smith said.
Amie Bishop posted her outrage to the neighborhood email list.
She notes the vandalism here came right after the white supremacist march and attack in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“This being right on the heels of Charlottesville, it's hard for me not to think that it wasn't some way related,” Bishop said.
Leroy Red says he's now staying awake nights to protect his home.
“What men in this world would do something like evil like this to innocent people?”
Neighbors plan to gather on Saturday in support of Leroy Red and his family.