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It's not the first time the intersection has been vandalized.
Delray Beach police released video of a driver intentionally burning tire marks on a mural that has been vandalized twice before.
Police say vandals again vandalized a rainbow-colored intersection in South Florida.
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Delray Beach Police released video of a black pickup truck stopping on top of an LGBTQ Pride mural at Northeast 1st Street and 2nd Avenue and making multiple intentional burnouts. The vehicle is seen traveling over the intersection once, then coming back to the same intersection and doing it again, leaving track marks on one of the rainbow crosswalks surrounding the intersection, as well as the painted intersection.
The incidents both happened on June 17, in the middle of Pride Month. Police are still trying to identify the driver.
This is the third time the mural has been vandalized since its installation in 2021, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. That includes on the first day that the painted intersection was unveiled, when police arrested Alexander Jerich, who was forced to pay $7,000 to fix it. In February 2024, a judge ordered Dylan Brewer to pay similar damages after vandalizing the public art.
The video of the latest instance of vandalism has no clear view of the license plate on the vehicle.
The incident happened days before Atlanta police charged four people with hate crimes for cutting up rainbow flags at a similar rainbow-painted intersection in Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
It also happened a couple of weeks before U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy launched a public assault on rainbow crosswalks as “distractions” to drivers.
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