A California front lawn display filled with swastikas has neighbors and lawmakers demanding its removal, but the resident insists it's "art."
The unidentified resident's display outside the Sacramento home is a confusing mix of flags and symbols, including American and Israeli flags altered with swastikas that were put up last week, ABC News reported.
There's also a Pakistan flag and a green soldier-looking figure with its hands in the air- all complete with Christmas lights.
The display has been up for months and added to over time. But the identity of the resident remains a mystery to news outlets. Even some who live on the same block in the quiet east Sacramento suburb don't know who it is.
"I certainly don't approve of [the display] and I don't know who he is," Robert Roehrs, who lives four houses down, told ABC News.
Other neighbors told KXTV they asked the resident, apparently male, to take down the display, but he claimed it to be artwork.
State Senator Marty Block is now leading the movement to have the "vulgar" symbols removed.
"Swastikas displayed on a house in the River Park section of Sacramento tarnish the neighborhood," Block, chairman of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, said Thursday, according to ABC News, "and disrespect and dishonor the memory of tens of thousands of brave American soldiers...men and women who died for their country fighting Hitler's henchmen who wore that very same symbol."
While the Democrat senator, from San Diego, said everyone has a right to free speech, he wants the homeowner to "voluntarily remove" the display.
The homeowner did not respond to ABC News' request for comment.
Police visited the property and determined there was no illegal activity.
