DC businesses board up before Election Day, blocks away from White House

(NewsNation) — Heading into the last play earlier the election, immoderate businesses successful the nation's superior are boarding up their windows and doors successful lawsuit of civilian unrest.

Friday greeting successful Washington D.C., aggregate businesses blocks from the White House started boarding up their windows.

While the D.C. Police Department said determination are nary known credible threats astatine the moment,
the full section volition beryllium deployed adjacent week to guarantee safety.

NewsNation saw firsthand workers boarding up immoderate of the storefronts — including chains similar McDonald's arsenic good arsenic small, locally-owned businesses — implicit concerns of imaginable protests oregon unit related to the election.

"We volition not tolerate immoderate unit of immoderate kind," said D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith astatine a quality conference. "We volition not tolerate the demolition of property. We volition not tolerate immoderate unlawful behavior. Offenders volition beryllium arrested and volition beryllium held accountable."

The constabulary main besides precocious said 3,300 officers volition beryllium deployed crossed the district, each moving 12-hour shifts keeping a adjacent ticker connected concern districts and polling locations. They tin besides telephone successful officers from different adjacent locations if needed.