The words “White Lives Matter” were found painted on the street of a California town three days after two white people were found and charged with hate crimes for vandalizing a Black Lives Matter mural in the same area.

Police officials in the town of Martinez, which is about an hour outside of San Francisco, are investigating who wrote the block letters, in what some have described as “hate speech.”

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