I can’t speak to every one of these instances, but the one’s I’ve seen DID look like potential construction sites. It’s pretty common now that parks use brick setting techniques for walkways around shopping malls and parks. A few of those pallets were in areas where such walkways were present, indicating possible maintenance.
BTW, when I was a kid going into Philly during the 60’s & ‘70
s cobblestone streets were pretty common in “old town”, Delaware Avenue & some of the older neighborhoods. All of that kinda stopped after the riots that were put down under police commissioner Frank Rizzo. Loose cobblestones were handy ammunition for rioters and looters. Most of those streets were gradually paved over through the 80’s and 90’s. Seems the advent of brick-setting techniques urban planners have forgotten the lesson that “Cobblestones” are bad.
In a recent video it showed some guy clad in black busting up a sidewalk with a hammer so as to provide projectiles. The line of cops was perhaps 8 feet away.
A bunch of the black protesters body-slammed the guy. Gave him a few kicks, and then hauled him over to the cops and they arrested him.
White guy with long wavy grey hair! I bet if they got rid of all the white people in these protests the violence and looting would go down by a lot. It really is a “mob” mentality. I saw one video where three people try to tip over a police car. Then a couple more people join, and then a whole hoard of people. Looked like a school of pirhanas feeding.