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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Rainbow crosswalk outside Florida Pulse nightclub where 49 LGBT+ people were killed is removed overnight on Trump’s orders

Under instructions from Donald Trump’s administration, Florida officials have painted over a rainbow crosswalk in Orlando serving as a memorial to 49 people who were murdered in the deadliest attack against LGBT+ people in U.S. history.

An ISIS-inspired gunman’s 2016 attack at Pulse nightclub, which at the time was the largest mass shooting in modern American history, was also the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001.

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