A Florida Highway Patrol officer arrested two people Sunday afternoon for allegedly “defacing” the formerly rainbow-colored crosswalk outside of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub — the latest in a string of questionable arrests.
According to court records, on Nov. 23, 28-year-old James Houchins and 29-year-old Austin “Bubba” Trahan were caught on video “aggressively” chalking the term “Resist” onto the crosswalk, which is owned and maintained by the state Department of Transportation.
The video footage came from the transportation department’s Regional Communications Center, which notified Florida Highway Patrol of the chalkers and dispatched an officer to the area to arrest them…