Pick another crosswalk.

Two at a Dunkin"? FHP ain't fools. Just puppets.

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Get handheld projectors and slides of rainbows. Project them everywhere. Not just on the crosswalk...everywhere. Buildings...roads...DeSantis' face. Everywhere.

I think those two guys are always at Dunkins.

man you got a shut down that Dunkin if you want those cops to EVER leave

Ron is such a petty little man. #Florida taxpayers would be way better off if he spent his time as a crossing guard in his platform cowboy boots or a pair of his white platform boots.

Fuck those guys. Way to prevent crime. Morons.

The old Meatball Ron had been kind of quiet lately. Good to know he’s still a sack of shit.

Someone should paint that sign rainbow 🌈

What assinine use of taxpayer's money!

Many more massacres to follow. Read some Christian history. These motherfuckers kill everything.

With CHALK. Something that will wash away with the almost daily summer thunderstorms that happen in Florida. Stupid.

Yeah but in the mean time you might hurt the feelings of a giant fucking bitch

Don't threaten me with a good time

They're on the terrorists' side

😪

This is happening elsewhere too. My husband was warned about chalking in a public park—“defacing public property” in Rhode Island. Cop said he could be arrested.

They mostly manage to PRETEND not to be outright pro-mass-shooting but j guess the mask comes off if the victims were queer

Next up for prosecution, all the kids drawing Hopscotch courts on the sidewalk.

In celebration, every 4th of July, towns across America allow people to draw and write stuff with colored chalk on their sidewalks. It's not the chalk or the writing that DeSantis can't handle. It's the memorialization of a mass shooting. Because somehow that's woke and unamerican.

What cowards!

Stupidest fucking shit

Waste AND Abuse

So now our kids can't color with chalk on the sidewalk in Florida. What is this world coming too?

the gov. of florida is sending a pretty clear message that it considers queer deaths to be unworthy of memorial

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Yup. Nihilistic South Park-ass party.

Your tax dollars at work.

at overtime pay no doubt

Because they're nazis.

ASSHOLE.

Good place to drop glitter from a hole in your pocket.

carry a big jar of some linear holographic pigment (its like a dust) in a jar that you accidentally smash as you trip

What a waste of money. The US is a fucking nightmare and it appears to be getting gradually worse so that people get used to being in a fascist police state.

Florida Republicans making it clear they intend to outlaw being gay again as soon as possible.

Chalk. It literally washes away.

DeSantis picks the absolute dumbest hills to die on. He's ridiculous.

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I definitely respect red state resisters.

Thank you so much. We are turning FL back to purple. And thanks to some amazing advocates and our native Indians - Alligator Alcatraz is no more. We have an insane Governor.

Anti chalk duty?? How in the fuck is this real life?

Pathetic waste of tax dollars at the VERY least. But Floriduh did vote for DeSatan, so there's that. Ugh.

After all the blatant gerrymandering they got away with in Florida, I'm sure anything can pass as a vote for DeSantis now. But this is happening in blue Orange County, in which 60% voted against DeSantis with 54% voter turnout. Rubs me wrong if you phrase it like this is what they want or deserve.

Maybe the other 46%need to vote. Wisely.

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What a waste of taxpayer money!

Hmm, using up highway patrollers time for this means that they aren't out there helping to kidnap people for ICE. Sounds like an opportunity for some good trouble.

Seems like an efficient and not wasteful use of tax dollars.

Also wondering about the logistics of a rainbow projector on the crosswalk. Also wondering how many crosswalks there are in that city.

Totally sick people.

Well, they're also trying to prevent people from advocating racial justice www.tampabay.com/news/st-pete...

Bring kids out to do chalk art rainbows on a nearby sidewalk. Make it a play excursion. I want to see them arrest kids and their parents for drawing chalk rainbows. Would make great video.

If the cops won't let people chalk that one, then maybe do a few dozen other crosswalks? Let a thousand rainbows bloom!

This is the answer. I mean, they are literally sitting in a donut shop to keep an eye on it.

Not just any mass shooting, the second worst mass shooting in American history, and one of the most lethal attacks on LGBTQ people ever.

‘Two at a Dunkin Donuts’ - must be the dream job 🥴

Soon he'll need the National guard and Marines

OMG you pathetic losers. Patrolling chalk. Sounds about right for these dickwads.

Fascist Florida. Remember Anita Bryant?

Well that is one way to waste tax payer money! This is a memorial.

They run and unfortunately sometimes win on hate and vitriol. The more the better and their scum followers fall In line. Nothing redeeming to offer but in the red states it seems to never to change.

Buying stock in Dunkin on Tuesday!

If it weren’t so sick and wasteful, it’d be hilarious.

Someone who lives near there should shine a rainbow light at night across the road… couldn’t be seen during the day but it is something

They're doing it because they hate LGBTQ+ people, and are offended that people would have a memorial to THOSE deaths in particular. Because they are genocidal and intend the exact same end for all LGBTQ+ people.

Seriously, fuck these people. www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2...

What—and I cannot emphasize this strongly enough—the FUCK.

Fucking ghouls

😣 my god

exactly this.

Very clear.

Exposing the utter moral bankruptcy of the Log Cabin Republicans who continue to support the GOP.

Well one upside is that some Florida cities like Tampa have "back the blue" crosswalks and street murals. Those are getting painted over, as well. Plus, Daytona's race track has a famous checkered flag cross walk. It, too, is getting painted. Womp womp.

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Not the best people are they?

Catch me if you can

This is so stupid it’s funny

Let's take it National and begin coloring crosswalks in many cities.

It might upset people. You should think of that.

What do you mean by that?

That’s the point.

This disturbing thing is not disturbing

What is?

The authorities don’t want people upset

They absolutely do, they want the people they hate upset

Sit a few schoolchildren in the crosswalk. Then see how fast they get ignored.

Meanwhile, every other crosswalk goes unguarded. Time to get tagging...

would be a real shame if there was another random shooting on that street that happened to only get those cops, a reeeeeeeeeeal shaaaaaaaaaaaame

From another perspective, they're memorializing the mass shooting, in support of the the shooter rather than his victims

How would coloring in a rainbow, which represents and supports the dead, be supporting the person who killed them? Big ole stretch I can’t imagine anyone making even maliciously

I think he means the officers on duty, not the chalk?

Yes

I'm talking about the people—Florida state officials—destroying the rainbows. I consider that those officials are expressing support for and approval of the mass murder of LGBTQ+ people. As you say, the people coloring in the rainbows are representing and supporting the victims.

A state run by scumbags

Why am I not surprised about the Dunkin Donuts!

DeSantis is this era’s George McGovern apparently

So, I'm thinking, couldn't you go around it, chalking all the nearby crosswalks that no one is watching?

Next up, they'll demand it be painted in Confederate colors

Your tax dollars at work fighting waste fraud and abuse.

…but defacing the rose garden…?

It would be a real shame if powerful laxatives somehow found their way into those cops' coffee and donuts...

It’s Florida though. The voters will still keep electing the imbeciles because they hate so much. Nobody should be vacationing in FL until things and leadership changes.

It'd be funny if they started chalking up random crosswalks as protest.

More cops protecting the sidewalks means more child predators in Florida can rape kids.

expressing grief over a shooting at a church full of children is a major crime, subversive behavior now

We need somebody creative putting together a list of ways we can destroy things conservatives value. Eye for an eye. Melt down Confederate monuments; stuff like that. Obviously the Trump Presidential Library will need to be obliterated.

Shine a colored light on it. From a projector. Or, a six person team can carry one light each and just cross at every light cycle. Rotate out after an hour. That would annoy the eff out of the cops but its not illegal at all.

I don't think putting chalk on the pavement is illegal either.

It’s the malicious compliance.

This is the one I was trying to figure out. The good news is I’m pretty sure the stage- and event-lighting field has more than a few people who’d be willing to give advice on this!

The point is, they don't give a fuck if it is illegal.

the answer is simply thousands of chalk-wielding amateur artists converging in solidarity

Imagine how much those troopers must enjoy guarding a crosswalk. Productive AND thrilling

It should be fairly easy to create a donut diversion to take the cops' attention away from the street for five minutes. A flash mob of painters could be in and out in 30 seconds. The other option? Have people wearing t-shirts in each color of the rainbow walk across that street in a line 24/7.

Spending that same effort to paint 20 *other* crosswalks in town would probably be lower risk and more effective. Especially if that idea then spread.

The thing is they are creating more publicity doing this then by not doing it/ but that's not unintentional.

Same people want to reinstall statues of literal confederate traitors and *losers* Where else is the world does a whole 'culture' pine + whine for the good ole days when they *lost*? (answer: Russia)

Hmmm, can they possibly monitor all crosswalks in FL?

Why I’ll never go back to Florida to hell with that moron

And where were they when folx were getting massacred? Enough!

Florida you’re sick, get help.

Those cops are going to have to be there forever. Put up cameras; people will absolutely not give a shit. Taking something like this away out of pure spite and hoping it just goes away - nope. People don't forget. And soon they won't forgive DeSantis.

maga won't tolerate any defense from their terrorism

Can't have colourful streets in Florida, don'cha'no! People might think they like joy or happiness there!

Hmmmmmm! Time for home owners, apartment owners, store owners to paint their street facing walls in rainbow colors. Even some cars.....

Not a mass shooting, but rather a massacre of gay people.

Reporting for chalk watch, Sarge

GOP, the pro-mass murder party.

They’re worse than mall cops.

Yeah this is after they got rid of the rainbow on the crosswalk in the middle of the night too.

Flash mob it with liquid chalk, can't arrest everyone.

Man; I wish they cared as much about patrolling crosswalks when so many get smashed by idiot drivers not waiting their turn.

How hard is it to write a bible verse in chalk and get the video of the cops erasing it and/or arresting the person attempting to pray?

If only they put in that much effort stopping real crimes

Well how can they? They’re too busy working to prevent fake crimes.

Well, there are crosswalks on the other sides of the Pulse building, aren’t there? Do those. Fucking rattle-can them, not chalk. And more if you feel like it. They’re so focused on the ONE they painted over they won’t notice you doing every crosswalk in the whole town.

Yet another way Republicans are turning the US into Russia. Ru gov consistently removes flowers, candles, and other tributes left on the bridge where opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in Moscow to suppress any unofficial shrine or memorial that might become a focal point for dissent.

Someone should fly a drone overhead and project rainbow light on the location.

Glitter is notoriously easy to deploy and even more notoriously hard to eradicate

make it biodegradable glitter, that way, it's also environmentally friendly 🙂‍↕️

i didn’t know there was such a thing?

There is! It's more expensive for obvious reasons, but it means less pollution. For example, Bio-Glitter is a British company that produces biodegradable glitter for various uses. It's just better than spreading more microplastics into our waterways and soil.

this may be the most practical thing i’ve learned from a stranger on social media!