ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — All of the Tampa Bay area’s colorful street murals are gone — painted over in gray to comply with a new state order. But the voices behind those murals, and the movements they represented, aren’t backing down.
Early Tuesday morning, crews erased the Pride mural at Central Avenue and 25th Street in St. Petersburg. By the afternoon, chalk drawings began to cover the intersection, but police told demonstrators they couldn’t block traffic.
Around 3 a.m., Eric Sumpter recorded crews removing the rainbow crosswalk…