San Antonio chalk artist Joshua “Lakey” Hinson has started a petition calling for the city to cease arrests for sidewalk art and protect public expression.
A local artist who was arrested in San Antonio earlier this year for using washable chalk at a bus stop has started a petition demanding the city cease arrests and citations related to sidewalk art. Joshua “Lakey” Hinson has created sidewalk chalk art in San Antonio and other Texas cities for years. His freehand circles are usually accompanied by wholesome quotes like, “Overlapping friend circles bring a community to blossom” and “Create beauty knowing it will be washed away.” In the Change.
“If the police will treat me this way as a white dude who’s gotten national and local publicity and has developed a following, how much worse will they treat a minority who maybe struggles with English, especially when there’s no public around?” A city ordinance defines graffiti as “any unauthorized inscription, word, letter, figure, symbol or design visible from a public place, public right-of-way or another person’s property that is marked, etched, scratched, drawn, painted or made in any...
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