Mason Whiteside repainted more than a dozen crosswalks Tuesday, what he considered a vibrant act of defiance less than 24 hours after the city began stripping...
Mason Whiteside of Carrollton poses for a photo in front of the Oak Lawn United Methodist Church, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Dallas.It was already dark when Mason Whiteside finished his workday at a Deep Ellum brewery.
By the time he was done cleaning and closing up, it was nearing midnight, but there was another job to do. Whiteside, 25, called a Waymo to take him to Oak Lawn, where he’d lugged a backpack full of chalk and spray paint: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.No one stopped. He didn’t need them to. Over the course of three and a half hours, Whiteside alone repainted more than a dozen crosswalks, what he considered a vibrant act of defiance less than 24 hours after the city began stripping the roads of their color. Dallas is among several Texas cities‘We will not be silenced’: Oak Lawn residents react to possible rainbow crosswalk removal Shortly before 3:30 a.m., Whiteside was painting near the intersection of Cedar Springs Road and Knight Street, when two police officers walked over.“Hey, buddy, what are you doing?” one of the officers asked.So Whiteside told them he was leaving, that it was his right, but said the officers wouldn’t let him go.Mason Whiteside of Carrollton shows his artwork that he painted on an Oak Lawn crosswalk following the removal of rainbow crosswalks, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Dallas.in an email that Whiteside was detained for unrelated, outstanding warrants. According to Whiteside, he was only informed of a speeding ticket and failure to appear in court out of Farmers Branch, an incident from more than three years ago. Whiteside was taken Tuesday to a Dallas County jail, then to the City Marshal’s office, and finally to Farmers Branch, he said, where he paid $972 to be released. He left at 10:35 a.m. Mason Whiteside of Carrollton poses for a photo in front of the Oak Lawn United Methodist Church, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Dallas.He thought about why he moved to Dallas in the first place. It was 2023 and he’d had enough of Amarillo, his “small-minded” hometown, he said. He wanted to start over, to grow up, to find some bigger dreams.“This isn’t the Dallas that I came to love,” Whiteside said. “And how much longer until it’s not just crosswalks? Until they take our spaces — ourHe’s disappointed. Angry. Scared, even. But he’s not discouraged.Jamie Landers is a breaking news reporter at The Dallas Morning News. She is a graduate of The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, where she studied journalism and political science. Jamie previously reported for The Arizona Republic and Arizona PBS.
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