East is East and West is West

Brooklyn:

Little girl cited for chalk drawings on doorstep, threatened with $300 fine.

Berkeley:

While the police had made sure that no damage was done to the office itself, Code Pink had ascertained that writing with chalk on the sidewalk is legal at protests, and the police can't stop them. So they left a variety of messages to greet the Marine recruiter when he arrived at the office the next morning.