Tag: Rainbow Crosswalk
Bikers who burned rubber on a rainbow crosswalk could face hate crime charges
Videos appeared online showing bikers defacing rainbow crosswalks in Albuquerque that were painted for Pride Month. The bikers burned rubber and left skid marks on the crosswalk. One of the bikers even popped a tire while vandalizing the crosswalk.
The city paid $30,000 to install the crosswalks this year, three times the cost of plain white crosswalks.
Related: Rainbow crosswalk vandalized with swastikas in gay village
“I can’t believe we can’t have anything nice,” resident Melvin Hanson told NBC4.
“To the vandals, I hope...
Internet Viewers Are Up In Arms At Man Who Spit On A Rainbow Crosswalk
A new viral video is circulating in Canadian news media and has many discussing the 10 second scene.
In the video, found below, we see a man and a woman crossing the road along a rainbow crosswalk. The man not only crosses the street without stepping on the crosswalk, but he also spits on it in mid-stride.
According to CBC News, Lane Specker was the man who recorded the incident through his car’s dashcam at the crossing on Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
In...
Orlando’s New Rainbow Crosswalk Honors Pulse Victims
The city of Orlando unveiled a new rainbow crosswalk to honor the 49 victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
Completed in time for National Coming Out Day, the crosswalk was created in response to a change.org petition that was signed by over 2,000 people who called upon the city to establish the rainbow crossing, "to honor both the memory of the victims and the struggle of the survivors from the Pulse nightclub shooting."
"Rainbow crosswalks have been installed in cities from...
