traffic safety activist, outspoken pedestrian safety advocate, Kevin Cox, drew a crossing with chalk. Charlottesville, Virginia, charged him with vandalism. Then, city workers covered it with black paint. Yup. They hate that guy for always ringing their doorbell....

Cox said he had since pleaded with city officials to lay down a crosswalk at that intersection. Those efforts went nowhere, so he said he took a line marker as well as a can of spray chalk to fashion a makeshift crosswalk on 17 May – a Saturday – as a crowd of onlookers cheered him.

He also reportedly wrote an email to Charlottesville’s city manager which read: “There is a marked crosswalk now [at the intersection in question] in spite of you … It’s chalk[,] not paint[.] Please replace it with a real one.”

Police subsequently called Cox and accused him of committing vandalism. He soon surrendered and was booked with intentional destruction of property, which carries up to a year in jail as well as a maximum fine of $2,500, WVIR reported.

a trial date is tentatively scheduled for 14 July.

“They have provoked me,” Cox told WVIR. “It’s not going to stop me.

“This is a common cause for many people in the city. It’s all about our day-to-day quality of life on the streets and the sidewalks, and everyone is affected by that.”

Pedestrian deaths on US roads reached their highest number in a single year in more than four decades in 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/virginia-crosswalk-vandalism-charge-charlottesville

https://www.wilx.com/2025/05/28/man-faces-charges-drawing-chalk-crosswalk-intersection-he-says-is-dangerous/

Keep in mind, they painted the crosswalk, a safety feature the city is responsible to make, black, so it isn't a safety feature anymore. 

They didn't make a better one, the removed the one that someone else made at no charge to the city. 

Brain dead morons.