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Survivors and advocates urge delay, accuse city of erasing evidence at Pulse Memorial meeting
Summary
During public comment at a 30% design presentation for the Pulse Memorial, survivors and advocates urged officials to delay demolition, argued families were excluded from planning, and accused the city of erasing records and sanitizing history; the city did not announce any delay.
Christine Hannavan, a member of the public who said she responded to advisory-committee surveys, urged the city to delay demolition and preserve evidence she said remains at the Pulse site. "The city is exploiting the dead and repeatedly harming the living," she said, and argued that demolishing the building as scheduled would prevent inspection and destroy evidence relevant to an open premises-liability lawsuit.
Hannavan said families and some survivors had withdrawn from the process because they felt excluded and retraumatized by city officials and by aspects of the memorial program. She told the meeting the memorial "should not…
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