{"id":245651,"date":"2026-04-25T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245651\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:34:10","slug":"no-charges-in-pulse-crosswalk-chalk-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245651\/","title":{"rendered":"No charges in Pulse crosswalk chalk protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">State Attorney Monique Worrell said her office would not prosecute those arrested for allegedly defacing the Pulse memorial crosswalk with rainbow chalk.<\/p>\n<p>She said there is no way to prove damage since chalk is designed to wash away.<\/p>\n<p>The state painted over several crosswalks, following federal guidance, that sought to eliminate any perceived social or political messaging from public roadways and streets.<\/p>\n<p>Worrell cautioned that dropping the charges in these specific cases should not encourage people to deface other crosswalks.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0April 24, 2026 9:31pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Attorney Monique Worrell said her office would not prosecute those arrested for allegedly defacing the Pulse memorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-245651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}