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Tired of waiting for city officials, Crosswalk Collective LA has painted over a hundred crosswalks at dangerous intersections across Los Angeles

Over the past three years, the guerrilla group of sorts has been fined and ticketed for their actions but they believe that has also spurred real change

"We started painting," says one member, "to make our communities safer"

Three days after 9-year-old Nadir Gavarrete was fatally hit by an RV while crossing a street in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood, Bianca Cockrell knew exactly what she and her anonymous group of volunteers—who surreptitiously paint crosswalks on the city’s streets—needed to do.

“We’d been planning on painting a different intersection in another part of town,” she recalls. “But when I heard about that boy b

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