CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Racist graffiti has been found in Chesapeake, and unlike other such instances, this is as public as it gets.

Words of hate were spray-painted all over the abandoned road by the Primrose School in the Grassfield section of the city.

Needless to say, residents were rattled, and they called 10 On Your Side with their concerns, steering us to an abandoned road. Arriving there, it was clear evil thoughts had paid a visit.

10 On Your Side viewer Tammy Vicry was so outraged she had to call.

“It enraged me to see this in my neighborhood where I live,” Vicry said. “We’re very diverse in our neighborhood. We come from all ethnic backgrounds,”

Vicry first saw the issue on Curtis Davis’s social media post from Sunday.

We walked down the abandoned road that once ran between Shillelagh Road and Cahoon Parkway, and we saw the paint of hate.

Vicry became so outraged by the racist graffiti she came down to see herself.

Police were called, and they quickly came out.

The forensic unit was out here, and Vicry hopes something happens.

“I hope they follow through,” Vicry said. I hope we make some noise about this, so everybody realizes this is happening in our communities. I thought I was in a safe community. Now, I don’t. I don’t feel like I’m safe.”

There’s so much hateful graffiti.

What stood out the most to Vicry?

The words, “I stand with Israel,” right next to swastikas.

“Yes, that stood out, of course,” she said. “This was either somebody that was ignorant, or a younger person that didn’t understand, but it’s important to know that someone was full of hate.”

Curtis Davis didn’t know how long it had been out here — maybe all sprayed at once or over time. Cans were left behind, taken as evidence, maybe fingerprints can be found.

Vicry has only been in town four months after starting a new job.

“So, I called and reached out to WAVY News to contact you,” she said. “The main reason I did it is I work for YWCA, South Hampton Roads, and what we do, we fight to eliminate racism, of course, empower women and ensure justice.”

During our interview, Vicry was sure who was doing this.”

“There are people here and they have hated in their heart,” she said.

The road is about 30 yards away from the Primrose School at Cahoon Commons, a childcare center.

“It kind of gave me chills to see it,” Vicry said, looking at the school, “that someone that close to a preschool right here. I have grandchildren, five and seven, that walk here all the time.”

She is emotional as she listens to the sounds of children in the schoolyard.

“I hear them, the sounds of children behind the trees here right next to us,” she said. “I don’t know. It’s hard for me to, it’s just hard for me to put in words. … I get emotional. I do. I get very emotional about it. Yeah, it is our neighborhood, filled with young children, very young children of all backgrounds.”

She also wants who did this to know this:

“I would say that you need to read,” she said. “I think you need to understand what you wrote. And I think somehow you need to understand the harm that you caused the children that saw this, because the children that saw this under 18 years old, and they saw that word on the concrete near their home.”

We are told the Chesapeake Public Works Department has already painted black all over the graffiti, and it will be out Thursday to finish the job.