DeSantis fires back after Dem decries Florida's move to ditch LGBT rainbow colors from crosswalk in Orlando
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fired back after Democratic state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith decried the state's move to nix rainbow colors from a crosswalk in Orlando near the site of the 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub that left 49 dead and others wounded.
In a video that he posted on Thursday, the state lawmaker said "the Florida Department of Transportation, in the middle of the night, ripped the rainbow colors off of this city crosswalk."
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