While Orlando cops DID march in the Pride parade (how does this celebrate Stonewall?), a lot of the visible policing and patrolling at Orlando’s Pride parade was done by out of town cops.

This is NOT seen at Washington DC’s huge Capitol Pride festival, and it seemed that OPD’s actual policing was kept in the background.

This was especially true of their bike cops, who are notorious from their repeated harassment of and assaults on Palestine protesters. This is a guess, but I’m wondering if this is fallout from those incidents?

Also note that most of Lake Eola Park was fenced off, and the post-parade festival took place behind bag search checkpoints. I did not enter the controlled area for the usual reasons.