Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer called the move a “callous” and “cruel political act.”

The state of Florida painted over a rainbow crosswalk, which served as a memorial to the victims of a 2016 mass shooting at Pulse Nightclub, in the dark of night on Wednesday.

“This callous action of hastily removing part of a memorial to what was at the time our nation’s largest mass shooting, without any supporting safety or discussion, is a cruel political act,” Dyer sa...