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Fearing election unrest, U.S. Companies are Becoming Prepared

Judging from the plywood, it is shaping up for a Election Day without any other.

In new york, companies from Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square to luxury stores in Manhattan’s posh SoHo area had covered their chimney. Similar scenes played out at Denver and St. Paul, Minnesota, together with company owners dreading Tuesday’s election could result in this kind of unrest that broke out earlier that season.

Only a brief walk in the White House, building employees were carrying big sheets of plywood. For block after block, the many shops had their doors and windows covered. Some maintained {} front door open, expecting to entice just a tiny enterprise.

“We need to be prepared,” explained Ali Khan 66, that operates in a now-barricaded downtown Washington liquor shop where tens of thousands of dollars in goods was stolen from June protests. “They shattered the windows and only walked out with everything”

Washington police pledged to maintain the peace, together with police officers stating the whole department could be about the job on Election Day.

“Some folks would love to create mayhem and problem,” Mayor Muriel Bowser explained. She said she hadn’t ever seen so many companies being wrapped up:”That saddens me. ”

Activists are planning for one more long-term job of Dark Lives Matter Plaza, 1 block from the White House.

In new york, a police division memo {} the vote”among the very highly contested presidential elections in today’s age” and said that the winner”might not be picked for many months”

Authorities there were holding barbell exercises to get ready for possible unrest and changing countless officers to patrol responsibilities.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, talking a week to a local radio series, said that it was too premature to forecast what could occur, but the town would be prepared.

“We are likely to be ready for a whole good deal of protests, protracted protests, possibly various protest groups facing each other,” he explained. “If anything seems violent, we are likely to proceed to prevent that quickly.”

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