Release posted on 08-29-25 at 10:52 PM

Tonight at 8 p.m.,FDOT crews arrived to paint over the street mural on 9th Avenue South, west of 22nd Street South.

At 8:15 p.m., Andrew Oliver and Benedict Atherton-Zeman, walked by police officers and sat down in the road, on the mural in an attempt to block the FDOT machinery.

Officers warned them repeatedly to move, but they refused and they were subsequently arrested.

They were both charged with :
1. Pedestrian obstructing or hindering traffic
2. Obstruction