With chalk in hand, protesters were not deterred by new signs prohibiting any defacement of the crosswalk, which is newly painted over in black, near the former Pulse nightclub.
They pressed forward with chalking the Pulse crosswalk on West Esther Street at South Orange Avenue, forcing multiple interactions with state troopers.
“I don’t think there’s much for them to stand on. I understand they’re trying to enforce something that I don’t think is right, and I think if it’s not right, then we shouldn’t worry about it,” said Orange County resident Sarah Barcousky.
The site has been the source of a week-long controversy between the state and Central Florida residents after the Florida Department of Transportation paved over the rainbow crosswalk. It was a tribute to the 49 lives taken by a shooter there in 2016…