TAMPA, Fla. – Two pastors were arrested Friday night as they attempted to block state crews from covering up a street mural, according to St. Petersburg Police.
Florida Department of Transportation crews arrived to paint over a Black History Matters street mural outside the Woodson African American Museum of Florida around 8 p.m. Friday, police said in a news release.
About 15 minutes later, Rev. Andy Oliver, an activist and pastor of Allendale United Methodist Church, and Benedict Atherton-Zeman, a minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church, walked by police officers and sat down in the road on the mural to block state machinery, police said…