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For days now, the Florida Highway Patrol has been stationed in the parking lot of an Orlando Dunkin’ Donuts. Their mission: Stop chalk-wielding activists from restoring a rainbow crosswalk that, until it was erased overnight by the Florida Department of Transportation two weeks ago, commemorated the 2017 mass shooting at the adjacent Pulse nightclub.

The state has already had to redo its black-and-white paint job once, after a local state senator helped redraw the brightly colored stripes. Since then, four people have been arrested on the rare charge of “interfering with a traffic control device” and charged with criminal felonies, according to lawyer Blake Simons

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