Cops Grossly Overreact To Chalk Protester

A listener calls in to tell the story about how cops were called to his sidewalk chalk protest. In his city, there is an ordinance codifying the use of sidewalk chalk as vandalism. Police arrived in force to intimidate him.

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So I got fined 500 a couple of years ago for writing names like Ahmad Arbury and Brianna Taylor with sidewalk chalk on a public sidewalk in my city. They ended up being five cop cars there. I'm really sad that I didn't film this. And yeah I found out that my city has an ordinance where sidewalk chalk is classified as vandalism. And I mean it was just really intimidating having like literally eight police officers standing in like a half-circle. All just like staring at me while I was sitting on the sidewalk.
And you're also writing about police brutality.
I think that's what yeah I guess that's why they were so whatever like personally offended and so I ended up getting this huge packet in the mail like a month later from whatever law firm saying we're the city or whoever the people against Nick Poland that was such a scary thing. And like thank god that I live in like I'm an I mean I'm very fortunate where I live luckily my parents had a friend who was a lawyer. And so I was able to talk to him and he was able to pretty much make me feel like nothing bad was going to happen to me. But I don't know it seems weird like a city ordinance saying sidewalk chalk is essentially illegal. I mean I don't know if there's a case that could be made that that's somehow unconstitutional.