Thursday morning she set up at the intersection of Highway 158 and Roanoke Avenue holding a sign saying “Cops stop killing blacks.”

Nailed to a utility pole were two other signs, one with the commandment, “Thou Shall Not Kill,” and the other saying emphatically, “Cops will stop killing blacks!”

Out again today, she said people have hurled racial epithets at her and extended their middle finger to her.

The 52-year-old remains stoic, wearing an airbrushed T-shirt that says “Hands Up.”

It is her way of lashing out to law enforcement she believes were responsible for what she says were the unwarranted killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Eric Garner in New York and Travis Faison, a former Roanoke Rapids resident, who was shot by a Sanford police officer Wednesday.

She's not sure what prompted the dream, but she was convinced that she should let her message be known that police violence must stop.

Referring to Trayvon Martin, who was not shot by law enforcement Smith, a resident of the South Rosemary area, said, “The only thing the boy had on him were Skittles. The man (Garner) had three cigarettes. I just want to let them know keep your hands up and don't shoot.”

Smith holds up her sign.

Smith said calling in the NAACP on these matters is not beneath her. “If the NAACP would come, that's what scares them.”

Ronnie Neville, a minister, was standing with Smith this afternoon. “She's standing up for what she believes in. She had a dream. It's the same thing that's been going for 100 years. She's doing it by faith. It's peaceful.”

She has had people join her as she stands by the utility pole, whites and blacks. She said she has been called a “black bitch” and one detractor asked her, “'Why do you have that sign when those people are dead. You'll die, too.' I just keep going. Anything anyone does to me, they've done to Jesus.”