Scooter disables devices used at LGBTQ+ crossings

Last week, the Spokane Police Department announced that charges had been filed against one adult and two juveniles for riding a scooter on an LGBTQ+ crosswalk in Spokane, Washington.

Investigators say the scooters left “black marks on the mural.”

In addition to the fees, Lime, a company that rents scooters to pedestrians, has implemented a “no-entry zone” in which it remotely disables scooters passing over the mural.

According to the Lime website, entering the “no zone” will cause the Lime vehicle to “gradually come to a stop,” forcing the rider to walk on the scooter until they are outside the zone.

“All of us at Lime condemn these despicable acts without a doubt,” Lime’s director of government relations, Hayden Harvey, said in a statement to the National Desk.

“As our teams at Lime begin Pride celebrations around the world, it is disturbing to see the hate taking place in Spokane. We will not allow a few haters to spoil the joy of Pride Month in Spokane, and for that we are grateful and working to make Spokane more welcoming to all.”

If only society took actual acts of vandalism as seriously as when someone drives over a Pride flag painted on cement near an intersection.

Americans can burn the flag, destroy statues and burn down buildings in the name of George Floyd – but the line is drawn when they ride scooters over an unreasonably large image of the flag.

Couldn’t the city have painted the flag on the wall if it had to be treated with such sensitivity?

True, at least pedestrians weren’t riding scooters over the BLM flag. If there is one group more protected than the LGBTQIA+ community, it is BLM supporters.

Here are some of the best reactions to Lime’s new “no go zone”.

Spokane Pride said the fundraiser raised enough money to repair the “damage” to the crosswalk.