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I saw a pallet of bricks that had been dropped off in San Diego. Now a pile of bricks I can understand as an anarchist preparation, but a pallet? Could it be a group doing the equivalent of leaving a loaded gun around hoping someone would use it?
There was one video of police unloading a bunch of bricks in their parking lot - couldn’t find that one. But here’s a video of cops unloading bricks on a street corner. https://twitter.com/xrp_baghead/status/1267618924524421120?s...
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I spent less than ten seconds looking at the replies to find this - https://mobile.twitter.com/HiImKeith_/status/126764020133103...

"Apparently, this was North Eastern University police taking bricks off the street to not damage the campus. They were not staging anything but making sure things won't get damaged by bad actors. Source the original poster of the video."

Followed by the OP saying as much. Please don't post stuff like this without actually looking into it... It's misinformation

Well the video shows them putting bricks on the ground, not in the truck
Does it? Please show me that video because this one shows them balancing them on the side of the back of the pick up.
This was a mislabed and mis-attributed video.
Strange also saw a couple instances of this on Twitter. Seems to be happening around the country.
The probability of people noticing a stack of bricks during these protest is VASTLY greater than the probability of people noticing a stack of bricks in regular times.

Without positive evidence of a conspiracy, this seems rather conspiratorial to me.

In NYC construction was one of the first things to restart after the virus

Unlikely folks on a worksite would've thought 'there might be a riot this weekend - we should move these bricks somewhere else'

Doesn’t seem like there’s enough evidence that this is actually happening. The video from the reddit post has scaffolding to the left. And why surround the bricks with fences and signs?

The reddit poster dismisses this with “look at the other links people have posted here”. These are basically 3 or 4 photos or grainy videos of bricks in a city. Some photos don’t have bricks at all.

There is the supposed video of police leaving bricks. They seem to be examining bricks in the back of their car, and lining a few up on the side of their car (not on the roadside). Not very convincing.

Not saying this isn’t happening, but the evidence is literally a few photos of bricks in cities at this point. I expect most of the time we pass by piles of construction bricks without noticing them

Evidence left me with the same idea. With the amount of construction going on there’s bound to be a pile of bricks somewhere

Also cops were being very careful with bricks and in no hurry to dump/unload

Unconvincing

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If you're looking for conspiracy theories/FUD everywhere, you'll surely find it. This is what happens when people don't temper the hobgoblins of their minds with facts and the acceptance of unknowability.