Leon Valley has since issued a public apology for the incident and invited the artist to create art at a public event. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX LeonValley Police Texas visualart
Lakey Hinson was creating nonpermanent chalk art on a sidewalk in Leon Valley when he was arrested for defacing public property. Those charges have since been dropped.
Lakey Hinson was using chalk to draw designs on a public sidewalk in front of the Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union on the afternoon of May 15 when two Leon Valley Police Department officers approached, telling him to stop,Officers Jorge Breton, a field training officer with more than 10 years' law enforcement experience, and Alan Gonzalez, a trainee, were responding to an anonymous tip that someone was defacing public property, the daily reports.
"We want to give you a break; now you're pushing us to do this," Breton says to Hinson in the clip as the officer can be seen placing him in handcuffs. "You gotta be careful because if you bring someone back here for something like that and we unlawfully detain them, then that could open [us] up to a lawsuit," the superior tells Breton.Indeed, in the social media post, Hinson hints that he still may take legal action against the Leon Valley Police Department.
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