Rainbow crosswalk outside Florida Pulse nightclub where 49 LGBT+ people were killed is removed overnight on Trump’s orders

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pulse-crosswalk-orlando-trump-desantis-b2812072.html

DeSantis administration’s removal of memorial crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub is ‘cruel’ and ‘callous,’ Orlando mayor says

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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 77 pts · 357d (4 replies)

People should paint it back

Those 49 people deserve to be remembered.

TommySoda@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 357d (1 reply)

A bunch of people already went back and did it again with chalk, so I've heard.

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 357d

Yup

CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 357d

Trump will make that a hate crime. Because he hated it.

wheezy@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 357d

They and all LGBTQ people in this country deserve a lot more than some paint. Paint it back by all means. But all this country seems to give minority groups besides oppression is paint, symbols, and some extra days for holiday sales.

fartographer@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 357d

That rainbow lasted twice as long as the civil war. We should build statues for the losing sidewalk.

AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 357d

paint's cheap.

presidents probably spend over 1,000 times a bucket of paint to rape children on a private island.

Flamekebab@piefed.social · 26 pts · 357d (1 reply)

queer people: exist
right-wingers: oh hell no

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 357d

right-wingers: exist

white-ringers: oh hell no

evidently

thisnameisnottolong@piefed.au · 24 pts · 357d

Sounds like a good reason to by some colourful paint.

caesarxinsanium@programming.dev · 21 pts · 357d

So scary, multiple colors

Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 20 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Why would state officials even be doing anything on city streets? Orlando should just treat it as vandalism and repaint it.

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 357d

Because Orange Ave, the street the crosswalk is parallel to, is a state road and falls under FLDOT, so the crosswalk is likely part of their jurisdiction rather than a city street, sadly.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 357d

Release the Trump/Epstein files

TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 357d

We can fight this asshole administration by joining up with our community defense coalitions and mutual aid chains.