After a mural depicting African-American and civil rights leaders in South Los Angeles was vandalized Thursday, one of the artists who helped create the piece returned to the scene with his spray can to undo the damage.

The 800-foot mural, which is called "Our Great Contribution" is part of the Crenshaw Wall project, a large street art project in Hyde Park along Crenshaw, near 50th Street.

It had been defaced with swastikas that had been scrawled in white paint over the faces of female members of the Black Panther party. The broader mural also features noted African-American and civil rights icons including Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Jimi Hendrix, Malcolm X, and Louis Armstrong. 

"Some people coming representing a lot of negativity against what we had going on here, you know they painted a few swastikas across the faces of some of my beloved Black Panthers and I immediately came, when I got the call, I came down and you know, fixed it up," said Enkone, a Los Angeles-based fine artist and graffiti artist.

 The mural was first painted in 2000 by a local graffiti collective.

The vandalism took place early Thursday morning in what the Los Angeles Police Department has called an "isolated incident."

The incident, which was reported at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, is also being investigated as a possible hate crime.