A home in the historically black community of Lawnside in Camden County was hit with racist graffiti shortly after the election, prompting condemnation as well as outpourings of community support for the woman who lives there.

Dawn Hines, 53, said she learned from a neighbor on Thursday that someone had spray-painted a racist phrase for black people on her back fence, which can be seen from the often-busy Evesham Road .

“We’ve never gotten anything like this before,” said Hines, who has lived in the home for 20 years and called the incident a hate crime.

Hines said the fence was unmarked during the day Wednesday, so the graffiti happened Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.

Besides experiencing surprise and shock, she immediately believed that the timing was no coincidence.

“It has something to do with the election,” Hines said, suggesting someone was emboldened by Republican Donald Trump’s presidential victory.

U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, a South Jersey Democrat whose district includes Lawnside, condemned the incident on social media: “Racism needs to be exposed when we see it, especially when it happens in our own community. I’m glad the police are investigating this act of vandalism as a hate crime. Hate has no place here.”

Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia also condemned racist graffiti: “Vandalism like this is despicable and is only intended to intimidate. In the face of this incident, we applaud the people of Lawnside for coming together to be neighbors. Thanks to the police for treating this as a hate crime. We hope the culprits are brought to justice.”

Hines said the Lawnside Borough Police Department and the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office told him they are investigating the incident. Both agencies could not be reached for comment Monday night.

A district work crew removed the racist word and a sexually vulgar image, but the rest of the words, including “hate” and “sorry, not sorry” were left intact, Hines said. Then a friend came out and spray painted the entire message.

Hines said the owner of a pressure washing company offered to continue cleaning the fence and the owner of a fence company offered to replace the fence.

“Love conquers,” Hines said.

She already had a security camera overlooking her back yard, but not the fence and grassy field beyond Evesham Road.

Hines said he will add video surveillance to give him a full picture of what’s going on.