At 11:24 p.m. Wednesday, a small road crew donning safety vests pulled up to intersection near the former Pulse nightclub.

It was late and there was little traffic even on often-busy Orange Avenue. The crew — about five people, with a pickup truck and a road marking machine — worked for 34 minutes and then departed.

They left behind a brand new black-and-white crosswalk at Orange Avenue and West Esther Street — one that would outrage many Orlando residents when it was discovered early Thursday .

The seemingly routine road-painting job erased the rainbow crosswalk that been emblazoned outside the LGBTQ haven since 2017, viewed as part of a memorial to honor the 49 people killed at Pulse a year earlier.

Video footage obtained by the Orlando Sentinel shows the work starting just before

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