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BuzzFeed News has documented claims made about bricks in Boston, Dallas, Kansas City, San Francisco, and elsewhere. In several cases, bricks were placed long before protests began in the US, or they are clearly linked to ongoing construction. As of now, there's no evidence to support claims of coordinated brick placements at protests. However, now that the claims have spread across social media and been amplified by the White House its possible that people could be inspired to start collecting and placing bricks.
Heres a breakdown of claims about bricks appearing in different locations and the information available as of now. This post will be updated with new information as it becomes available.
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15. The White House tweeted a video that includes footage of some of the palettes of bricks investigated in this post. The video misleadingly claims bricks found in Sherman Oaks, New York, and Fayetteville were "staged." It also links this to "antifa and professional anarchists" without evidence. The White House later deleted the video.
Edit to add link (whoops): https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/investigating-bricks-at-protests
rockfordfile
(8,708 posts)If authorities want to solve this, they confiscate surveillance video from every business in these areas. They solicit homemade videos. People need to start taking down license plates.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)They also had pointy metal weapons that were triangular!
Sorry, but I couldn't resist.
SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)making these particular bricks has been lost over time or the particular type of clay used in making those particular bricks has been used all up (and that particular batch of clay is no longer available to use anymore).
Rehab folks use old bricks to restore homes etc., thus there's a big demand for them (anywhere from 50 cents on up for an old brick, probably more now). If you go into an older neighborhood, pallets of old bricks (assembled when an old house (if even done anymore) was torn down) were gone by the fall of evening, the neighbors and all grabbed the old bricks as fast as they could.
You don't see this anymore (pallets of old bricks anymore)...they're placed on trains to the north and shipped out.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)I will try to find it but not promising anything.
demmiblue
(36,903 posts)The officers are members of the Northeastern University Police Department in Boston, which patrols the campus. After the video went viral, the NUPD issued a series of tweets to explain that its officers had collected the bricks from a damaged sidewalk nearby and brought them to the headquarters.
They were in the process of unloading the bricks when the video was filmed, according to the NUPD.
eleny
(46,166 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)moose65
(3,169 posts)Where's the link to the article? I wouldn't mind reading the whole thing.
demmiblue
(36,903 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)msongs
(67,462 posts)IDreamOfGreen
(6 posts)I thought they stopped using bricks in roadwork a hundred years ago? There might be construction but perhaps someone with the right engineering degree can explain how bricks are used in modern roadwork?
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)There are many masons in this area. It's fascinating to watch them work.
The Independence Hall area has lots of brick, cobblestones/belgium block, and slate -
And the neighborhood of (historic) Germantown (yes THAT "Germantown" ) still has some brick streets (below from 2014) -
List of others there - https://rocklandstreet.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/germantown-repaving-historic-red-brick-street-philadelphia/
Anyone living near Germantown Avenue (moi included) learn from an early age of driving, how to drive on Germantown Avenue's cobblestoned parts with the trolley car tracks.
Broad St. south of City Hall on "The Avenue of the Arts" -
Many many streets here in the city still have brick under the asphalt. But some neighborhoods in the city and small older rim towns in the Philly burbs are renovating/"rejuvenating" their "downtown" areas, and are using brick pavers for sidewalks, smaller side streets, crosswalks, and median strips. This allows for "traffic calming", making the area more "pedestrian-friendly" (vs being a cut-through to another town), and for "character", where sometimes elaborate brickwork is being utilized for aesthetics (e.g., this is what Glenside, PA and others have done) -