Photo: Stashes Of Bricks Are Being Found In DC Near Freedom Plaza – Officially They Are For Construction Work But Locals Say They Were Left There Over Night

Right Journalism ^ | 01.05.2020 | Natalie Dagenhardt

[USA Conservative]

Members of D.C. National Guard will respond when supporters of President Donald Trump protest the 2020 election results in downtown D.C. this week.

The D.C. National Guard will assist the Metropolitan Police Department with crowd management and traffic control, MPD’s acting chief, Robert Contee, said at a news conference Monday morning. The department is expecting a crowd larger than at two pro-Trump events in D.C. last year.

“Some of our intelligence certainly suggests there will be increased crowd sizes,” said Contee, adding, “There are people intent on coming to our city armed.”

Firearms will be prohibited within 1,000 feet of demonstration activity in Washington, D.C. this week, according to notices posted by the Metropolitan Police Department.

All firearms are banned within 1,000 feet of where the signs are posted ahead of pro-President Donald Trump demonstrations against certifying the electoral college votes for the 2020 presidential election, Fox 5 reported. Protests are expected at Freedom Plaza, near the capitol building and at the National Mall.

During a press conference on Monday, Mayor Bowser asked that local area residents stay away from downtown D.C., and avoid confrontations with anyone who is “looking for a fight.” But, she warned, “we will not allow people to incite violence, intimidate our residents or cause destruction in our city.”

It seems they are ready and will control the protests but why one day before the protests mysterious stashes of bricks are being found near a protest site.

Near Freedom Plaza stashes of bricks were left overnight.

Officially they are for construction work.

Photo below:

A local resident claim that they were left there overnight: Link

We contacted several construction companies about procedures for unloading construction material.

The conclusion is that material is never just left out on the street, the truck comes in and workers unload it for multiple reasons first is insurance no one wants to be sued and second why buy it and leave it out to be stolen. Pavers come shrink wrapped on a pallet stacked. Never in bags like this. Also, you’ll need a permit to store materials on the street, and they would have to have some sort of barricade around them.

These bricks and other pallets of bricks in DC should be removed as they can be used as a deadly weapon if protests turn violent.

As we know bricks were used in the past riots by Antifa to riot and attack the police.

Organizers plan to rally on Tuesday evening at Freedom Plaza and again all day Wednesday on the Ellipse, including a 1 p.m. Wednesday march to the Capitol. Expected attendees include high-level Trump supporters like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Republican strategist Roger Stone.

[TexasGunLover]

Picking up materials that are not yours is theft.

As long as the materials have been adjudicated as abandoned, then unless DC has other intervening rules, that would be a logical conclusion. Walking down the street and making that conclusion as a person in public, still makes it theft.

[Svartalfiar]

As long as the materials have been adjudicated as abandoned, then unless DC has other intervening rules, that would be a logical conclusion. Walking down the street and making that conclusion as a person in public, still makes it theft.

And who is the victimized party here? If all these random piles of bricks/pavers really are property of construction companies, let them file a complaint. They won't, because they almost certainly don't have permits to be placing them on the sidewalks.
If it was placed there by BLM/Antifa terrorists, then I fail to see how that's theft. You're an activist, they put the piles out for activists. You're just taking your share a little early, before the riots begin!

[TexasGunLover]

Again you have unilaterally determined the items as non-legitimate.

[Svartalfiar]

Again you have unilaterally determined the items as non-legitimate.

No, I have given several scenarios in which they aren't legitimate piles. Why don't you give me a situation or two that would explain their presence around the city?

[TexasGunLover]

No, I have given several scenarios in which they aren't legitimate piles. Why don't you give me a situation or two that would explain their presence around the city?

None of the scenarios allow you to make a determination. If it isn't yours, you don't get to decide.

[Svartalfiar]

None of the scenarios allow you to make a determination. If it isn't yours, you don't get to decide.

And yet you still can't give a scenario where the multiple piles of bricks are legitimate. I'm not making the determination, I'm giving options for what it could be.