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Chalk Protest

Sat, Aug 17, 2013 (3:09 p.m.)

Armed with dollar-store brooms and children’s chalk, Las Vegas activists gathered Saturday outside of Metro Police headquarters to prove a point: It doesn’t have to cost $1,550 to clean up sidewalk chalk. The protest was a response to the arrests of four Las Vegas activists who had been protesting Metro by writing messages in colored chalk outside the headquarters for months.

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