Although Lima lives on Cottman Avenue, parking spots are sometimes seldom. Thus, she, as well as other residents, is often forced to park around the corner in a majority-white neighborhood.

Lima

Although Lima lives on Cottman Avenue, parking spots are sometimes seldom. Thus, she, as well as other residents, is often forced to park around the corner in a majority-white neighborhood.

Lima left her car around the corner Sunday evening and saw the note the next morning.

"I was scared,” she told FOX 29. “And I was thinking, maybe they followed me or maybe they know where I live, and I don't want to fear for my life that somebody would do something to me if I was to park around there again."

Other Black residents who have parked when Lima parked have experienced racist acts taken out on their vehicles. Bernadette Waites is Lima's next door neighbor. One time when she parked on the 3100 block of Teesdale Street, she noticed her right front tire was flat due to a nail puncture.

Lima’s mother, who also parks on that block of Teesdal has gotten nails in her tires. She’s had two flats in the last couple of weeks alone.

"I just want it to stop,” Lima told Fox 29.“But that we've been living around people who have been preying on us the whole time, it's really sad."