The history of race relations is tumultuous in Grosse Pointe -- the city made up of predominantly white residents that borders Detroit.
In the latest, Jedonna Dinges, a Black woman known around town for her love of fashion, says her white neighbor put a KKK flag in the window when he was apparently angered that she put a camera outside her house.
Dinges took action. She told FOX 2 she called state and federal authorities and shared the picture of the flag on her Facebook page and then went to the neighbor's house, urging him to take it down.
That didn't work, and then police got involved. They knocked on the man's door to figure out what was going on and discovered this:
"Detectives who came out from the Grosse Pointe Park Police Department told me, that the reason the neighbors put the klan sign up was because I put a camera on my windowsill to record what was happening along the side of my house to protect myself," she said.
Dinges says she had installed a security camera after someone put a full gasoline container in her trash. The neighbor apparently took umbrage because the camera faces his house.
"When the police asked the neighbor about it, he said 'Well I didn't want to go over there and say anything to her, we never had any problems with them,'" she told FOX 2. "They made it clear with the police we never had any problem with her, but we're non-confrontational people. I don't know how you get any more confrontational than a klan sign."
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Grosse Pointe Park's elected officials have condemned the man's actions ... and the flag hanging in his window.
"We need to make it clear that that sort of behavior is not welcome in our city," said Grosse Pointe Park Mayor Robert Denner.
For her part, Dinges has set up a rally at her house for people to show support for the Black community in the face of a symbol of hate.
Support for Dinges and her rally is pouring in from all over the country.
"If I can’t be in person, I’m there by your side," Cathy Schneider wrote on Facebook.