Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said the painting over by state workers of the crosswalk with rainbow colors often associated with LGBTQ pride was “callous” and “a cruel political act.”

A rainbow crosswalk near Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., honoring the victims of one of the nation’s deadliest mass shootings was painted over late Wednesday after close to a decade, part of a state and nationwide effort to scrub “political banners” from public roads.