A Florida Department of Transportation crew early Sunday painted the Pulse crosswalk back to black and white for a second time as supporters continued to try to restore the rainbow-colored crossing. Now, police agencies are monitoring the site.
A Florida Department of Transportation crew early Sunday painted the Pulse crosswalk back to black and white for a second time as supporters continued to try to restore the rainbow-colored crossing. Now, police agencies are monitoring the site.
Keep up the good work of painting, the colorful crosswalk thank you!
The one cure to this is simple. Monitor back, paint it again, then out the folks fucking shit up. You're welcome.
Monitoring for what? Chalk isn’t vandalism, so what’s the charge if they arrest us? It’s just intimidation when this crosswalk wasn’t even slated to be removed as it’s part of the memorial, Ronald Dion just did it to be cruel and suck up to Donald John.
It's a CROSSWALK. Fucking hell, why waste resources on monitoring a bit of paint???
useless fucking cops, just let the memorial be ffs
Time to paint all the crosswalks in the city.
Put a rainbow on every other crosswalk.
ACAB. fuck the pigs, man!
🤮 at desantis
I vote for the rainbow If a rainbow provokes you - you have serious aggressive hate disorder
Florida reported to be considering changing all traffic lights to black and white. This appears to be a reaction to the politicizing of colors.
How Nazi does the hate and antipathy from our own tax-payed public servants have to get before we just start pushing back? A rainbow crosswalk for remembering a massacre of the innocent. Let’s see some more political violence and attacking the powerless minorities? Then we act?
Why would they be investing public funds in defacing a memorial? The answer is obvious: they explicitly approve of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. I’m surprised they haven’t erected a statue of the shooter on the site.
Wait: who's responsible for the care of this street? This is W Esther, right? Isn't that a city street (as opposed to a state route)? Can't the city paint it any color they please? Or is FDOT taking over all maintenance of city streets?
It’s a city street.
Then unless the state is willing to take over all of the maintenance for that street, they need to keep their damn mitts off.
City is fighting governor. It's ugly rn.
Shame on bloody Ron DeSantis.
cops literally have nothing better to do down there i guess
How paranoid must a person or group be to feel terrorized by a painted public sidewalk?
This is so fucking disgusting. Especially from a state that wholeheartedly wants to celebrate American traitors---the confederacy
Surely one can get drones to paint a crosswalk. Even (or, especially) at night.
You don't want to do anything that gets you tangled up with the FAA.
They are spending taxpayer money to have police officers ensure no one paints a rainbow honoring murder victims on the street. That's money you got up every morning and worked to make. Money that could be benefitting you and your loved ones. Are y'all tired yet?
Somebody please hack the police website and make everything rainbows.
Let's see a story on gold-bricking jobsworth cops. These guys are just welfare kings.
Paint all the fucking crosswalks rainbow colored. Keep the stupid as authorities busy.
Florida: where keeping a cross walk white is more important than protecting people from an active shooter.
Some Florida cop is gonna get paid massive overtime to sit on a lawn chair and play Candy Crush day and night just to make sure no one re-paints the rainbow crosswalk honoring people who were murdered by a Republican-enabled terrorist bsky.app/profile/sun-...
Some Florida cop is gonna get paid massive overtime to sit on a lawn chair and play Candy Crush day and night just to make sure no one re-paints the rainbow crosswalk honoring people who were murdered by a Republican-enabled terrorist bsky.app/profile/sun-...
Why are Republicans such prissy snowflakes and wasting taxpayer money on their weird and cruel homophobic fixation? bsky.app/profile/sun-...
Is that really what police are for? Is any of this what police, FBI, or our military are for?
Yes.
Stay strong, Florida! Make them post 24/7 police at the location - make them look like fools for wasting taxpayer money conserving their fascism.
Of all the things this one is just so petty and disrespectful that it causes my blood to boil. How evil do you have to be to start a vandalism chain on a memorial for 49 human lives? These people in power need to fuck right off.
DOT repainted the crosswalk, again? Doesn't chalk just wash off in the next rain?
They won’t monitor it that long. We can do this as long as they can.
May the graffiti gods be with you 😊
Maybe start painting the police cars. These fashos clearly need more rainbows in their lives.
Rainbow. Everything.
I think we can all agree that this is a valuable use of the state's law enforcement resources: standing still and staring blankly at a piece of fucking road to ensure no one makes it too gay.
Guess they’ll just have to rainbow paint every other crosswalk in town instead.
No one can ban rainbows, period. Rainbows are a part of the natural world Rainbows beautifully represent love 🥰 De Santos and White Christian Nationalists are true haters of love, of kindness, of tolerance Can’t wait for this evil shit to be over…
Fuck the police
F#ck DeSuckis!
The kind of petty evil that enables repulsive fascists like desantis to do this needs to be expunged from our society. Forcefully if necessary.
JFC
They must not want any tourism. I'm never going back to Florida, at least not until they come to their senses and elect a democratic government. We should all write to Disney and Universal Studios telling them we won't return to Orlando until the crosswalk is restored.
Florida has become a red state. It is hard for decent people to live here. I don't blame anyone who stays away. The Guardians Of Pedophiles want Florida to be a MAGA state.
We're leaving in two weeks. I will never step foot in this state again. 💙✌️
Trump wants tourists to stay away. He doesn't care about the American economy.
They paint over the crosswalk. The people chalk the crosswalk to restore the colors. Rather than wash off the chalk, they paint over the chalk. I wonder how well the paint adhears to chalk. I bet a pressure washer could knock that crap right off.
The rain washed it off Friday.
Of course, it would be better to change the law to allow for rainbow crosswalks, thus removing the excuse for reverting them, but that takes time and doesn't make people feel as much like rebels.
This is deranged. Colors are driving them bad You couldn’t invent people to be more textbook fascist
There was a point in time that I weighed moving from Jersey to Florida or the Pacific Northwest. I chose Oregon. Then, my wife and I debated Florida a decade later. Then, it got far too hateful. Thank goodness we didn't make the move. My family deserves more than sand and sun.
Not just Florida, all states should join in. Here's one in Connecticut.
People should use chalk on crosswalks all over Florida. Make it whack-a-mole for DeSantis.
what a damn waste of time
Great use of law enforcement.
literally lol go solve real problems. like fascism
The police are fascists. They're part of the problem
Divide by each country’s total population for apples-to-apples. I am sure the US is still #1.
the UK’s really aren’t that much better, they’re absolutely just waiting for their ICE-like opportunity
and, all our prisons are full
The UK's 9/11 would absolutely be an inside job
whenever absolutely anything bad happens they’re like “told you it’s the fucking immigrants” it’s literally never immigrants. like a council flat set on fire bc of some white british group of meth makers and they refused to believe it wasn’t the immigrants even after the investigation was released
that, and you wanna see what “tommy robinson” (steven yaxley-lennon, biggest right wing racist thug) did to olajuwon ayeni. he’s black, and was playing with his white grandkids in a park, and now everyone wants to off him for “being a p*do” - the police first said there’s nothing they can do 🥴
he lost his job and everything
do you think i do not understand that
No, just making it more obvious for the Third Way people that stop by
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Noticed you changed your pfp and it's glorious btw
currently waiting on the UK version of ICE to emerge so i can let out some of this incredibly violent physical rage i feel 24/7 (obviously i hope this doesn’t actually happen but it feels inevitable rn)
I understand. Shit's so rough that unless people name names or I already know where they're from I can't tell if someone is speaking about the US or the UK
I keep going to say “we’re all doomed” but I have a feeling it’s probably not going to go like that this time bc so many people are so angry. And we actually have a method of communication outside letters and propagandised news these days… they thought the internet would help them I think. But alas
Nice one.
Police spending = requiring taxpayers to subsidize Right Wing politics.
Are we great yet?
What I want to know is: can the protestors make keeping it black and white even more expensive?
Florida really just doesn't want LGBTQ touri$m, huh? I know we're making other choices.
You mean the "SS" is monitoring the site.
Afraid of color, what bitter fuc*heads
They cant monitor every crosswalk in town.
Florida being run by a bunch of little bitches who are scared of rainbow crosswalks. Pathetic.
Fantastic use of police officers and public tax dollars. Brilliant stuff from the state of Florida.
Totally not waste of taxpayer dollars.
Well, if they're dead bored all day watching paint literally dry, then they aren't out brutalising peaceful protestors.
I think it needs a little glitter.
Then repaint a different one. They can’t guard them all.
This is so mean. Create a mural as someone suggested.
Bootsy DeFailure seems awfully afraid of rainbows
O M G 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
"Police agencies are monitoring a crosswalk..." You absolutely pathetic people. 😅
just when you think something was already stupid enough, they make it more stupid. thanks for reminding everyone how bad things can be if you try real hard at it florida
Keep painting that shit until the layers of paint are so thick that it doubles as a speed bump.
Thank goodness! All that dangerous Democratic chalk dust.
Next time paint the police cars.
Florida is run by white supremacists and fascists. Get the hell out while you can.
Paint the cops too
how much taxpayer money is that bigot governor wasting on this performative political stunt
And in terms of resistance, its a perfect way to make the bad guys waste their time and money, and look foolish. Slow them down, throw a monkey wrench in the works. It makes for fewer officers supporting ICE operations and other evil doings.
it’s our taxpayer money tho, and unfortunately florida has no shortage of nazi cops readily available..
As much as it takes. Conservatives only care about power. The will of people or the city government MUST be broken. They WILL obey. No amount of tax money is ever enough for a conservative to impose his will. Conservatism is very expensive.
Don’t forget they protect pedophiles and child sex traffickers.
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Nobody will obey. Their gonna have to kill every one of us and i am ready to fight back. I'd rather be dead then let them silence me.
Apparently, the “leaders” in Florida don’t care about what happened to those individuals at the Pulse Nightclub! They can’t allow for any “remembrance” of the HORROR and we can’t let them FORGET! Why else would they care so much about a rainbow colored crosswalk… except for the HATE OF GAY PEOPLE?
Folks need to start harassing these people, and that includes the pigs. Make them feel shame. Demoralize the fuck out of them.
He’s trying to cover up the Pulse crosswalk like he’s trying to cover up the the $10 million transfer from a Medicaid settlement to his wife’s “charity” that was supposed to go to Medicaid for needy Floridians. These republican ghouls are fuct in the head.
Excuse me could you please inform me more on this, I really want to know as much as possible about who did this and when, even just the name so I can look up more details, Id appreciate it!
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Maybe the rainbow crosswalk restoration brigade should dress up in camo, wear face masks and move the cops out of the way. They’d be utterly confused.
Extremely funny how transparently that proves that police aren't there to keep people safe.
Never have never will
imagine getting paid to be a nuisance at best and a bigoted murderer at worst
This is so sick:(
fek al la porkoj
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and Gov. Ron DeSantis continue to build on the work that evil ISIS acolyte Omar Mateen initiated.
Then we should defiantly repaint this. What kinds of people hate rainbows?
now for there to be a crime occurring near enough to that area and the nearby monitoring police to turn a blind eye to the cries for help as they stand around wasting taxpayer money to keep an eye on a single sidewalk to make sure the local government's defacing of it stays in place.
What folks need to do, is spray a later of hydrophobic coating over the colors so whatever the cops do, won't stick.
So much wasted tax money to own the libs…
Paint a rainbow all around that corner on the sidewalk. Use cement dye and marine varnish to finish it off. Fuck those guys! I want to see rainbows EVERYWHERE! Whoever gets fined if someone gets fined, you can crowd source money to pay for it. NEVER GIVE IN TO BULLIES!
HELL YES!
The Orlando city council opposes this, yes? Could they pass a city ordinance to put a historical marker sign on the sidewalk by the crosswalk explaining why the sidewalk was rainbow and why the DoT keeps repainting it black? The DoT can touch the roads, but their authority elsewhere is limited.
Republicans are evil
They are afraid of colors
Florida taxpayer dollars at work paying for crosswalk monitors. Not monitors to make sure school kids are safe while in the crosswalk. Monitors for the crosswalk itself. Are you f’ing kidding me?
Or paint crossing next to it
Paint every crosswalk in the city. And this time use paint, not chalk.
The real question is why do Floridians keep voting in such shitty politicians/Republicans. A somewhat similar question can be asked about Americans who elected tRUMP TWICE, However, both times traitor tRUMP won by narrow margins but Florida Republicans keep winning in landslides.
It's a humid hate the burns Florida.
Hey, ask Canadians if we’ll ever spend another single dime in your state again. You won’t like the answer! 😡
Just start making rainbow crosswalks in random places if they want to be douche-canoes about it.
Republicans are the most hate-filled pathetic losers on Earth.
This is a fight they will lose
Make Rainbow crossings EVERYWHERE.
Cops can't be there 24/7 indefinitely. The people will prevail.
Resistance takes many forms, and all of them count. If it has to be death by a thousand cuts then so be it.
This is the dumbest and most petty, most hateful thing I have heard in a long time.
Bunch of petty small twats in Florida
ACAB
How about a giant rainbow mural featuring famous Florida drag queen Rhonda SanTits?
do the police agencies stand around for three hours before moving in to repaint?
You know, I don't WANT to be full of searing hatred whose righteousness makes it no less unbearable all the time. But until this regime is obliterated, I guess that's just how it has to be.
A hundred people walking with paint on their shoes would brighten a crosswalk.
This regime has always been notoriously disrespectful to victims of mass shooting (ex: our current pres platformed with a mass shooter)
Start with the just the blue line and then report the arresting officer to the MAGA mob for thought crimes. Feed them to each other.
Sounds like a good time for paint-filled balloons in a rainbow of colors.
Wasting taxpayer money to destroy a legal tribute to murder victims, money for guards to keep that monument from being restored, money for terrorism & hate, but no money to help Floridians. Stop electing Republicans.
The problem is that it’s illegal now. Street art is illegal now and they’re covering up ALL off the crosswalk art across the state. It’s not just a small problem. It’s much bigger than people are aware of.
The state is giving Key West until September 3rd to remove its rainbow crossings.
Yes and every other city in the state to erase all the street art. BLM art is being removed as well. All of it.
It’s not street art. It is a legally approved rainbow crosswalk that’s a tribute to murder victims. It’s not even the only rainbow crosswalk in Florida but DeSantis targeted the Pulse Night Club memorial one first. What does that tell you.
It is street art, they’re removing ALL the rainbow crosswalks and all other art across the state.
They might be removing rainbow crosswalks, but they are not street art when they are in the city's ordinances as a legally-designated crosswalk. There are way more people to repaint legally-designated crosswalks than conservative government officials to vandalise city property.
They are ART ON THE STREET. They are being removed because they claim it inhibits self driving cars. It’s a new law. They’re erasing all ART ON THE STREET.
Do you live in Florida??
I used to live in Florida. My son still does. They can call it "art on the street" all they want, but all conservatives lie, and that doesn't make it so. They are vandalising city property. Whatever happened to the GOP idea of "local control?" Oh, they lied about that, too.
You literally aren’t listening so I’m done engaging with you since you don’t want to understand the problem.
DeSatan is single handicap handedly trying to kill the tourism in his state apparently.
Pigs God damn pigs pot belly pigs punch drunk pigs take money money pigs
Imagine being such a piece of shit that you need to cop-enforce your defacement of a mass shooting memorial
Surround DeSantis’ house in rainbow crosswalks.
watch the price of colored chalk conveniently skyrocket
Pathetic. Trump and DeSantis do not have the support of the people. They have to send cops to guard a crosswalk. Pathetic.
Chalk is good, you probably won't catch a graffiti charge, but 6 people with a rattle can each could fix that crosswalk in 60 seconds. And every other crosswalk in town. Just sayin
they made wplace real
cops helping to disrespect mass shooting victims, uvalde seems less like an unusual fluke
Petty Petite Body-Part-That-Starts-With-Same-Letter Award to DeSantis for this hateful absurdity.
Just wait them out. Cops are notoriously impatient and will move on
Okay, time to paint a lot more crosswalks to rainbow. Can’t monitor all of them.
Fascist pigs
paint their cars rainbow
or just paint them rainbow
F*ck Rhonda and his gogo boots
F*ck Rhonda and his gogo boots. Someone check his closet.
Ron DeSantis not beating the huge piece of shit allegations with this pathetic and cowardly little stunt.
Hey America, that old red white and blue bullshit was getting old so I made you a more current flag.
Adequate reporting would have mentioned the cost to taxpayers for this “monitoring.”
Keep it up. This helps slowly burn through their budget for the year. 🤣
Welp. Knowing O-town they'll paint the REST of the crosswalks rainbow to spite Desantes.
Paint the cop cars rainbow.
So incredibly stupid
Petty little racists…
Bigoted cops.
How shitty
Armed guards for a fucking crosswalk. Sounds like a great use of resources.
What kind of cartoony ass, Saturday morning serial villain bullshit is that.
When will governments learn not to piss off the people? They exist to serve us, not to subjugate us
Chalk a crosswalk somewhere else. Chalk all the crosswalks.
Look at all the taxpayers money wasted
Petty pathetic bigots spending your money.
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Police giving everyone more reason to hate them.
They should go paint rainbow-colored crossings where those cops would normally be.
Streets don’t belong to the police. They keep law and order, but the actual streets belong to We the People.
Imagine THIS being your priority. Who care about homelessness or hunger in our communities, as long as nobody paints any rainbows!
nefarious liberal pigments
What a waste of police time. Policing color.
Big tough guys scared of a little rainbow. It's kinda hilarious when you look at it like that.
Great use of their time. Not.
Zoom in your favorite sky view Pulse shooting look north and south. Crosswalks in need of care. dT made a demand on safety in fact is was bigotry or the street work would have a larger scope. Federal guideline discuss decorated crossings, and this did comply!
One 'might' make an improvement and add a 12" roller black frame to add a white black contrast. No need to orange wash decorated crossings. I would assert the contrast I see in the Pulse crossing is HIGHER than the unmaintained crossings.
Fuck these assholes. DeSantis - your political career is over. It’s not salvageable.
Time to start rainbow painting other crossings.
Why not just bring in the National Guard with guns? After all this is the type of crime they're going after.
We have our imaginations.I will always see the 🌈 sidewalk. Florida is one of the cruelest places. Is it just the political leaders there or is where meanies go to be with other meanies? They can't all be mean? I'm not a believer, but, I'd never want to be reincarnated there, especially as a dog.
Yeah, this seems like a great use of taxpayer money 🙄
Government efficiency
Maybe some sort of silicone caulk or mixture could make a protective surface that new black paint won't stick to or would be a real PITA to remove. Maybe some steel studs for any tools that try to scrape it off. C'mon, we can out think these guys.
What a fucking waste of money & resources by hateful, incompetent imbeciles.
If only our governor tackled real issues, like crushing insurance costs, overdevelopment and environmental damage, with the same intensity he puts into policing the color of crosswalks.
It is FloriDUH, so I'm not surprised.
Florida has decided that one of the worst crimes is painting a crosswalk a rainbow color. So police will not be able to respond to so many other emergency calls because they are guarding these sacred spaces. Wow, SMH
Wait you mean desantis is ACTUALLY making Florida safer
Do not stop. Be the people who get arrested for repainting a memorial.
Or rather, RESTORING a memorial
When you have far more police than you need.
Better headline: FDT Defaces Crosswalk Memorial for the Dead (Again).
Land of the free, or some such bullshit.
Such an excellent use of the time and energy of people who are supposedly serving the public
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What an excellent use of taxpayer money.
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It's a bot. Block it and limit its reach instead of wasting time replying and spreading it.
And "reply spam" can be the entire function of a bot
I suggest reporting the account so other people don't have to go through the trouble to block.
Do both tbh
They cant monitor every site
Hey DOGE, you missed some "fraud and waste"
Keep fighting gang. Peaceful protests like this are powerful persuasion for moderates.
This looks like a dangerous place. Perhaps it is time to send the National Guard to Florida.
Wait 3 days, paint again, 6 days, paint again, 9 days paint again. Broken windows BS can run both directions and it's a game the state never wins.
Why wait? Do it immediately. Do it to dozens of crosswalks around the whole state.
Yes. This. They can't arrest everyone and the optics wouldn't be in their favor. The rainbow-fearing idiots will get bored with the game eventually.
They openly laugh about feeding hispanic toddlers to alligators, they're well, well past the point of caring about how evil they look.
A symbolic win if ppl keep repainting is for all of us. It's motivation to keep fighting, it's inspiration, it lets people know others are fighting too, and that there are more of us than there are of them. Optics aren't everything, but they matter; not for the fascists, but for all the rest of us.
What’s the permission structure for laughing at murdering immigration kids look like?
Lmfao you think optics matter at this point, where we have seen with our own eyes and people deny that truth, and over and over again
It also can't hurt to expand to other locations: spread out the area they have to watch.
Could also start painting other crossings that aren't being watched.
Honestly, why wait? Go paint other crosswalks during 'waiting periods.' They can't police every crosswalk every day. Let the 🌈s multiply. For every one removed, 3 more pop up...
Every crosswalk for a mile around. Hell, all of Florida can do this.
Time to start painting rainbows in every pothole in Florida.
Even better cover it in epoxy this time so removal requires destroying the street or heavy chemicals
God forbid there be any joy
Not with the Trump administration
Only when YMCA is playing
What an excellent use of the city budget; thanks OPD.
Move and paint a different location. Keep moving and make them chase rainbows all over Orlando.
Wow what a great fucking use of tax dollars.
Paint another. Cant monitor em all.
More disgusting police performances from FloriDUH!!
It's going to be hard to monitor every crosswalk in Florida.
Wasting Money is what Makes America GREAT Ok??? Just look at The Cold War
They are really scared of rainbows arent they?
Imagine getting upset by colors and chalk
Guess someone needs to bring out the epoxy the next time.
republicans are fucking freaks