WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A man who says he's making dangerous crosswalks safer by painting them was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department and cited for vandalism in Westwood Sunday afternoon.

"We want to make a change! I am so sick of walking around with my dog and having close calls, feeling like you enter the street, you enter the void."

Jonathan Hale said he's been painting code-compliant, but unpermitted crosswalks along with his team of volunteers with @PeoplesVisionZero to protest for safer streets and a better government.

The city says the paint is vandalism.

"We had painted these two legs when the police cruiser arrived, made us stop working," Hale said.

The officer in a video of the arrest posted to Hale's Instagram can be heard saying that painting the crossw

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