Tampa police find 'suspicious' bricks, pipes on rooftop just days before Republican convention

AP ^ | 8/21/2012 | TAMARA LUSH

[Joe Brower]

Tampa police find 'suspicious' bricks, pipes on rooftop just days before Republican convention
TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press
August 21, 2012

TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa police said Tuesday that they confiscated pipes, bricks and other "suspicious" items from the rooftop of a downtown building located about a mile from where next week's Republican National Convention will be held.

Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor said she believes the items were put there by protesters for use during RNC demonstrations. She added that some RNC-related graffiti was also found at the building, but wouldn't elaborate.

"It is disconcerting but it's not surprising," she said. "This is normally how things proceed leading up to a large event."

Tampa will host the RNC at a downtown stadium from Aug. 27-30.

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[hkusp40]

In a right to carry state like Florida - if someone threatened a law-abiding citizen with a brick or a pipe or even menacing them, would “Stand Your Ground” apply?

Srlsy - message to OWSies - you have to be out of your minds to threaten people in an area of the country where civillians can meet force with force.

This isn’t NYC.

Them OWSies are a bit scrambled in the noggin.

[Molon Labbie]

Not unusual to find caches of improvised weapons created by the leftists/socialists/anarchists.

Hopefully they don’t have any of this.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878906/posts

[factoryrat]

Of course they overlooked all of the suspicious people carrying suspicious objects roaming about around the convention center.

[oldenuff2no]

and since all of those things can cause great bodily harm or death when tossed from the rooftop the use of deadly force by a few well placed snipers will be authorized.
Then no one will have to guess who these butthead morons are/were.

[philman_36]

Lower right corner - dekko - Basically 'dekh' means to look and when you say 'dekho' its asking someone to take a look.

[cuban leaf]

—The cops should’ve staked it out and grab `em as they stockpile or whatever.—

I firmly agree.

[philman_36]

99, if those are nines, is “parent stopped watching/left the room”.

[Joe Brower]

I've never heard of him before, but 'dekko', from what was described on the TV newscast, is some 'local artist' who has been affiliated with the Tampa 'Occupy' movement.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***...she believes the items were put there by protesters for use during RNC demonstrations.****

Back in the 1960s, police knew a “spontaneous” race riot was coming by the appearance of piles of rocks and bottles on rooftops.

[TheBattman]

The Leftists in this nation will resort to anything... Who are the REAL threat to this nation? TEA Party folks, or Leftist hate groups?

According to Obama’s folks...

[Cowgirl of Justice]

“The cops should’ve staked it out and grab `em as they stockpile or whatever.”

Grabbed them, hell. Throw them off the roof. Throwing a pipe or brick into a crowd is deadly. Judge and jury them on the spot.

[GOPJ]

Throwing a pipe or brick into a crowd is deadly.

Pipes and bricks are used for making pipe bombs...Maybe Homeland Paranoid Insecurity should STOP looking for some fantasy 'right wing lone wolf' and start looking for some real left wing killers.

[tutstar]

There are reports out that an event is being staged. False flag if you want to call it that. Everyone should be aware.

[philman_36]

Seems like some information was left out of the telling in the article.

[Joe Brower]

Do you gents have any additional information on this?

[philman_36]

No, Joe, I don’t. Want me to go foraging?

[philman_36]

Cached page...@Seems my art got some publicity here in tampa fl. rnc vs occupy 2012

[philman_36]

Pretty much the same, so far.
Possible RNC safety threat: Graffiti, stock-pile of bricks found near Tampa's RNC zone
Now, the Tampa Police department is searching for whoever trespassed onto the rooftop.

[philman_36]

Another cached page...@Street Art: By Dekko and Boof

[philman_36]

see keywords at link and images at third link.