On the 28th of September, courageous #LGTBQ
activists showed up with Chalk in front of Orlando’s City Hall. There was zero police opposition. State Police would have expected us at Pulse not City Hall. Orlando’s government for all their own issues does NOT seem to by loyal to Trump or DeSantis.
Yes, there was rainbow chalking at the ramps feeding two crosswalks. Between DeSantis’s thuggish behavior and the violent threats from Der Fuhrer Donald Trump it seems that the rules of engagement may have changed radically. In spite of the greatly elevated risks of peaceful protest against an openly Fascist regime, people showed up anyway. That is the courage of warriors!
This went down in the teeth of such earlier incidents at Pulse as arrests for walking in a crosswalk with chalked shoes, a violent assault, and a threat of armed attack.