NEWSMAX | Published November 5, 2024
Bracing for potential unrest in the aftermath of Tuesday’s presidential election, federal and district authorities are installing security “enhancements” in Washington, D.C., with fencing around the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence, and the U.S. Capitol.
In addition, 8-foot fencing also now surrounds the Treasury Department complex and parts of Lafayette Square and the Naval Observatory, measures implemented by the U.S. Secret Service that “are part of wide-ranging public safety preparations for Tuesday’s election,” the agency said in a statement on Sunday.
The Secret Service is doing the same at the convention center in Palm Beach, Florida, where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is hosting an election-night party, The Washington Post reported.
D.C. police announced road closures that will take effect Monday night around Howard University, where Harris will hold her election-night party Tuesday night.
“The Secret Service is working closely with federal, state, and local partners in Washington, DC and Palm Beach County, Florida to ensure heightened levels of Election Day safety and security,” the Secret Service said in its statement. “These enhancements are not in response to any specific issue but are part of wide ranging public safety preparations for Tuesday’s election.”
The added security measures are being undertaken by business and property owners in D.C. as well with the Jan. 6, 2021, riots on Capitol Hill still fresh in the memory in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Shops around D.C. are boarded up or have added their own security fencing around businesses in the event of looting this week.
“There is concern around the city. We’re not expecting full-fledged pandemonium like we saw after Jan. 6 or four years ago,” Eric J. Jones, vice president of government affairs for the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington, told the Post, referring also to the George Floyd riots in May 2020. “Honestly, it’s just fear.”
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Workers erect anti-scale fencing around the White House and Treasury Department on Nov. 3. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images
AXIOS | Published November 5, 2024
Security fencing is going up around the White House, U.S. Capitol and Vice President Harris’ residence in Washington, D.C. as authorities brace for possible unrest on or after Election Day.
Why it matters: The security precautions in the nation’s capital are the latest indication that the government views the culmination of the election as a potential powder keg. Some businesses boarded up last week.
Driving the news: “The U.S. Secret Service is working closely with our federal, state and local partners in Washington, D.C. and Palm Beach County, Florida to ensure the heightened levels of safety and security this Election Day,” the agency said in a statement to Axios Monday.
Eight-foot-high metal fences are going up around the White House, the Naval Observatory grounds — where the vice president’s residence is — and the Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida, where former President Trump will hold an election night party, the agency added.
The Washington, D.C. Police Department on Sunday announced road closures, no parking zones and other security measures around Howard University this week, where Harris’ watch party will take place.
Fencing will also block the Treasury Department complex as well as adjacent parts of Lafayette Square, the Washington Post reported.
At the Capitol, authorities have put up bicycle-rack barriers with signs reading “police line: Do not cross,” per the Post.
What they’re saying: “These enhancements are not in response to any specific issue but are part of wide-ranging public safety preparations for Tuesday’s election,” the Secret Service said.
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SOURCE: www.axios.com
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