Remember, folks, it is a CRIME to draw with sidewalk chalk on the streets and sidewalks of Washington DC so when you do it be sure to invoke your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent if asked about it. #ChalkCrime
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It is a crime to draw on the street with chalk in DC? How? Surely we have some canon of construction that criminal laws are presumed invalid if they are inherently, and on their face, stupid.
aug 30, 2025, 5:56 pm • 17 2 • view
It’s all federal property there. It’s like for Native Americans on the rez, any crime is a federal offense. There is tribal law but I don’t know all that. I worked at a medium security federal prison in Colorado and that’s where I learned it about a guy who did a burglary and stole a tv.
aug 30, 2025, 11:35 pm • 0 1 • view
Not all of DC is federal property. And where it is, authority lies with Congress not trump
aug 31, 2025, 12:48 am • 5 1 • view
No just a significant portion of the city. This hasn’t stopped trump yet.
aug 31, 2025, 1:46 am • 3 0 • view
Maybe. reason.com/2023/08/21/c...
aug 30, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't know if you're being serious or not. It seems ridiculous that something that washes away so easily can be called a crime. Weird? How did such an ordinance ever get passed?
aug 31, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
There's a person I follow on Instagram who stumbles across a lot of it in NYC www.instagram.com/karinschall/
aug 30, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
MAGA: What are you in here for? American: I drew a chalk rainbow on the sidewalk. You? MAGA: I killed 20 children in a school with an AK-47. American: 🥺
aug 31, 2025, 3:16 am • 22 3 • view
And be sure when you take a pic of it and post it to social media that you don’t confess to doing it yourself. It’s never “I did this” or “Look what I did.” It’s always “SOMEONE did this” or “Look what SOMEONE did.”
aug 30, 2025, 6:01 pm • 287 44 • view
Did any DC case law define chalk within that statute, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org? It's not permanent, so I don't think it fits the definition of "deface." When, where, why did a jury--if--make chalk criminal? Hell, teeny peeny potus' face paint nowadays is harder to remove than sidewalk chalk.
aug 30, 2025, 7:46 pm • 6 2 • view
That's a lot of six year old to be arrested for playing hopscotch.
aug 31, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 0 • view
😁 Good advice!
aug 30, 2025, 7:25 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 6:05 pm • 3 0 • view
SOMEONE is a chalk criminal! Help us, big brother!!
aug 30, 2025, 6:08 pm • 10 0 • view
At least that's what SOME people say.
aug 30, 2025, 6:02 pm • 6 0 • view
Many people say
aug 30, 2025, 6:12 pm • 5 0 • view
“Many people are doing”
aug 30, 2025, 9:08 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 6:25 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 8:52 pm • 2 1 • view
Keep your hoagies handy.
aug 30, 2025, 6:26 pm • 2 0 • view
So, and I ask this as someone across the pond through ignorance and definitely not as a suggestion, if someone chalked a picture of donnie on a pavement (sidewalk) and then let dogs shit on it, are the chalkers or dog owners more criminal?
aug 31, 2025, 10:07 am • 1 0 • view
How lovely!!!!
aug 30, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Someone begging for the death penalty here.
aug 31, 2025, 8:56 pm • 4 0 • view
1. Flip the House, flip the Senate. 2. Vote, Vote, Vote, we can win it. 3. Arrest the tyrant, 4. Put him in jail. 5. Render justice, 6. Or Democracy fails. 7. With Liberty our guide 8. We make it strong. 9. Working together 10. It won't take long.
aug 30, 2025, 9:43 pm • 20 7 • view
It’s good to at least see a plan!
aug 31, 2025, 6:37 pm • 3 0 • view
But it's OK to stab police with flag poles and spray them with bear spray, etc. #MakeItMakeSense #NeverForget www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
aug 31, 2025, 9:00 pm • 11 4 • view
#NeverForgetJanuary6th #TrumpBetrayedAmerica
aug 31, 2025, 9:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Interesting. In CA it was ruled that since it’s not permanent damage and goes away with the rain, it’s not vandalism.
aug 30, 2025, 7:02 pm • 17 3 • view
That’s the way it was in DC too until tr*mp took over
aug 30, 2025, 8:12 pm • 7 1 • view
How about reverse-graffity? Use letter-stencil for the colours in letters. share.google/0z8wZoHDUi9y...
aug 30, 2025, 7:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Cry "Witch hunt!"
aug 30, 2025, 5:59 pm • 4 0 • view
OTO, if you take a crap in the Capitol, Trump will pardon you.
aug 31, 2025, 12:24 am • 8 2 • view
my "freedom of bark" was infringed for a month or so earlier this year by the city of asheville. what finally got them to stop was many neighbors drawing their own chalk "graffiti" in solidarity and self-reporting the "crimes".
aug 31, 2025, 9:48 pm • 4 0 • view
The irony is that chalk detectives, like homicide detectives, draw a chalk outline around the evidence.
aug 30, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view
And I'm just gonna leave this here rain.works/products/inv...
aug 30, 2025, 7:28 pm • 17 2 • view
Since Trump took over the sidewalk chalk crime spree is out of control.
aug 30, 2025, 11:10 pm • 10 2 • view
aug 31, 2025, 9:06 pm • 14 1 • view
Straight to jail!!! 🤣
sep 1, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
Those are beautiful!
aug 31, 2025, 9:59 pm • 3 0 • view
He is a national treasure of trompe l’oeil!💖
aug 31, 2025, 10:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Waiting for the very good DOJ lawyers to charge sidewalk chalkers with insurrection and ask for the death penalty.
aug 30, 2025, 5:58 pm • 13 0 • view
Meanwhile there’s no DC grand jury that will back the injustices of Trump’s DOJ.
aug 31, 2025, 5:07 am • 1 0 • view
Doodling on the public ROW that our tax dollars pay for is not a crime. The intent of the Law being referenced is not to prosecute such actions. It’s supposed to pertain to permanent graffiti, and the like.
aug 30, 2025, 6:44 pm • 9 2 • view
§ 22–3312.01. Defacing public or private property. Another one of those laws that passed back when everyone thought prosecutors would be "reasonable" in enforcing it, so nobody cared about the broad power, not thinking that someone may want to use it for persecution. (Disclaimer: Not your lawyer)
aug 30, 2025, 6:03 pm • 7 2 • view
"To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of; disfigure"? I think beauty is in the eye of the chalk holder.
aug 30, 2025, 6:19 pm • 5 1 • view
With chalk?
aug 30, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 6:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Seriously?!
aug 31, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck them hoes. I'm playing hopscotch.
aug 30, 2025, 5:55 pm • 25 0 • view
Pics or it didn’t happen!
aug 30, 2025, 5:55 pm • 13 0 • view
All in for #ChalkCrime
aug 30, 2025, 5:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Remember, you can hide chalk inside of the barrel of a 50 caliber sniper rifle. If they can't find the chalk, there is no evidence of a crime.
aug 31, 2025, 9:06 pm • 5 0 • view
Delay,.. the rain will rid us of any evidence 🔥
aug 30, 2025, 6:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh dear. Lots of children in my neighborhood draw with chalk on the sidewalks. And someone wrote Free DC on theirs and left chalk for others to add messages. Did I? No comment.
aug 30, 2025, 10:26 pm • 92 11 • view
DC should become covered in chalk
sep 1, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
If I recall correctly Guy Mason Park near the russian embassy has an actual chalkboard. I wonder if that is somehow different
sep 1, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
Gosh, that's such a shame, someone leaving chalk around like that. 😆
sep 1, 2025, 1:45 am • 5 0 • view
IF tossing a sandwich cannot be prosecuted as a crime I’m pretty sure drawing with chalk is gonna be allowed. First amendment in fleeting form.
aug 30, 2025, 7:10 pm • 3 0 • view
I encourage families to flood the streets with children and chalk. Let’s see the cops and the guard start arresting children. Fight Back!
sep 1, 2025, 1:30 am • 1 0 • view
If someone writes “Constitution” on the sidewalk, like in front of the National Guard, and they walk around it, can you say they’re literally bypassing the Constitution?
aug 30, 2025, 9:42 pm • 3 0 • view