By CHRISTOPHER WEBER

LOS ANGELES — Frustrated by the city’s slow progress in painting crosswalks at intersections they believe are unsafe , activists in Los Angeles have been picking up paint rollers and doing it themselves. Now one of them has been arrested on a vandalism charge.

In a video posted online, Jonathan Hale wears a bright yellow safety vest as he’s handcuffed by a police officer Sunday. His group, People’s Vision Zero, had organized a guerrilla “paint party” at a four-way crossing in a leafy residential neighborhood of west LA.

“You’re vandalizing city property without a permit,” the officer says.

A woman out of frame can be heard saying, “Leave him alone. He’s not doing anything wrong.”

Hale and his allies have organized stealth painting operations across the city at i

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