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Sen. Shevrin Jones is joining Miami Beach leaders Thursday to call out what Democrats have described as a state-led erasure of LGBTQ symbols.

The news conference, set for 1 p.m. at Ocean Drive and 12th Street — the site of Miami Beach’s rainbow crosswalk — comes just a week after the Florida Department of Transportation paved over Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub memorial crosswalk without warning. That tribute honored the 49 victims of the 2016 massacre.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer condemned the removal as a “cruel political act,” while Central Florida Democrats blasted the overnight repaving as an insult to families and survivors. In the week since its removal, locals have been recoloring the rainbows w

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