Two church leaders were arrested Friday night outside the Carter G. Woodson African American Museum in St. Petersburg as state workers began removing street murals across the Tampa Bay area.
Police say Andy Oliver, 45, and Benedict Atherton-Zeman, 59, were taken into custody after they sat on the road in front of the museum in an apparent attempt to block Florida Department of Transportation workers from removing the museum’s Black History Matters mural.
Oliver is pastor of the Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg. Atherton-Zeman is a minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Petersburg…