Business owners are taking precautions in the event that mayhem and rioting break out after the election, fearing a repeat of the George Floyd “Summer of Love” when leftists ran amok in deep blue cities.
If former President Donald J. Trump can overcome a propaganda-spewing media and mail-in ballot cheating to return to the White House, the Democratic Party’s shock troops aren’t expected to simply accept a Kamala Harris loss gracefully, prompting the boarding up of windows and extra security measures in some areas.
Fox 5 D.C. reported that businesses near the intersection of 17th Street NW and H Street NW near the White House were seen boarded up last week, including a McDonald’s restaurant with other outlets also reporting that D.C. business owners are battening down the hatches.
Businesses are boarding up across Washington, D.C., in anticipation of potential unrest ahead of Election Day.
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“It is completely ridiculous that we have to do this,” said local employee Ebony Boger, according to ABC7. “It’s very precautionary, and I see why because I was here four years ago, and it was crazy down here. It’s not shocking. I’m kind of used to it. I think they should do it.”
“I got an email from building management last week — or maybe two weeks ago at this point now — and they told us that this was going to happen,” she told the outlet.
Boger was also in D.C. during the so-called “insurrection” on January 6, 2021.
“It’s very precautionary and I see why because I was here four years ago and it was crazy down here. It’s not shocking. I’m kind of used to it. I think they should do it,” she told ABC7.
One D.C. resident has posted a number of pictures to X said to be of pre-election preparations in the capital city, including fencing at the White House and at the vice president’s residence.
More DC businesses being boarded up due to nervousness about the election. pic.twitter.com/5xDkQoNvUC
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) November 3, 2024
Anti-scale riot fence going up around the White House today. Fence was last used for Kamala Harris rally earlier in the week and they haven’t even had time to cut off the old signs yet. pic.twitter.com/2ruXNmqyis
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) November 3, 2024
Workers are installing anti-scale riot fences at the @VP residence tonight in preparation for Tuesday’s election. pic.twitter.com/CPQEyrA1D4
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) November 3, 2024
The Washington Post reported, “Signs of caution proliferated this weekend, as the Secret Service erected new, eight-foot-high metal fences around the White House and Treasury Department complex, and adjacent parts of Lafayette Square, as well as outside the Naval Observatory grounds and Harris’s residence. The Capitol reintroduced temporary bicycle-rack barriers posted with signs stating, “Police Line: Do not cross,” surrounding its perimeter.”
Over on the left coast, preparations for anarchy are also underway in Portland, the site of a prolonged Antifa insurgency four years ago.
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“We never can eliminate risk, but the confidence that I have in our community, the confidence I have in our law enforcement response, I’m really hopeful that that’s not going to be necessary,” Portland Police Chief Bob Day told KATU.
Democrat D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser downplayed the threat of violence, saying last week that “people have certain risk tolerances, and I don’t think they should be boarding up their buildings, but we’re not going to give them that advice,” according to Fox 5.
Ted Williams, a former Washington, D.C. homicide detective and a Fox News contributor told Fox News Digital that he’s “never seen it as bad as it is now when it comes to whether there is going to be some attack of dissension during the inaugural [period] or presidential elections.”
“It is very concerning and alarming. Businesses should board up [and] take proactive positions to protect their business,” he said. “We’re in a very volatile time in this country… I think you could clearly find someone acting out under the circumstances here. I think it’s good for them to be proactive… irrespective of what the mayor [of the District of Columbia] says.”
“When you look at all of these buildings that have been boarded up or you see the fences put around the Capitol, you ask yourself, ‘Is this America? Is this the America that we knew as children? Is this the America that we want our children to know? Is this America, or are we in some Third World country?’” Williams asked.
“If Trump wins the electoral college next week, get ready for 2 months of street riots, a media onslaught the vote was illegitimate, crisis gov’t pressure on social platforms, followed at the end by an attempt by Congress to nullify the election on January 6, 2025,” former State Department employee and commentator Mike Benz said in a recent post to X.
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