Shotgun blasts fired into home of LA town's first black mayor

While Ernest Lampkins is no stranger to racism in his town, he says this is the first time it's gone physical.

Since the shooting police have increased security around Lampkins. He was elected in 2004 and this violent attack is the first physical incident yet. One of the slugs flew through a glass panel separating the families living room from their family room. Luckily, no one was injured--but there was a baseball sized hole in the panel. Currently police do not know for sure what the motive was or who did it--but they believe it was racially motivated. Greenwood is a small, primarily white town and Lampkins has faced racist words and other acts so this may just be an escalated incident. Police have started using metal detectors on people entering Board meetings and other official business where Lampkins is present. "We don't know if the shooting was racially motivated. We have nothing to suggest that at this point," said an NAACP representative in the area. But the NAACP is calling for an FBI investigation into the matter. The mayor said about 10 people in the town of some 2,600 residents oppose everything he does. "They're really anti-administration. They are not team players. They are citizens who have a vendetta," he said. "I'm not saying they have anything to do with it, but they have created an atmosphere to making such things possible." "Anytime you shoot in someone's house, there is intent to kill," Lampkins said. This is the second shooting in the last couple of weeks that involved a black mayor in a predominantly white town..luckily, this time the man wasn't hurt..In the other one, the man had just won the election and they ruled it a suicide--I know, I'm very, very skeptical as well. It seems like Race relations in Louisiana are taking one step forward by electing them and then two steps back afterward.