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Posted: 5/30/2020 4:09:45 PM EDT
[#1]
If it wasn't so far I wouldn't mind dropping by and instigating something.
Better clarify this. Something like accidentally releasing some pepper spray amongst the rioters, maybe just a few bags of dog shit where they are stomping around with their signs. Who knows.... |
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Posted: 5/30/2020 7:41:02 PM EDT
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Bet no protests next door in Polk county.
Remember in January when a Sanders staffer said that Milwaukee and other cities will burn if Bernie wasn’t on the presidential ticket? Think this is a trial run at it since the DNC convention was cancelled? |
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Posted: 5/30/2020 8:52:16 PM EDT
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Downtown Jax is winding down. JSO had snipers deployed and one cop got slashed in the neck with a knife and is in surgery.
We have a large, very popular outdoor mall and apparently that's the next target. |
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Posted: 5/30/2020 11:53:10 PM EDT
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I saw something about the cop, hope they come out of it alright. There's a live stream for Tampa on Youtube now, 10 Tampa Bay. Can't quite ID the mall they appear to be covering. Also saw they apparently looted a Walmart and set a gas station on fire. I'm wondering what downtown currently looks like - my office isn't far from the TPD precinct they protested at earlier and I've been kicking around ideas for how to extract my laptop so I can keep working from home in the event that they do something stupid that temporarily puts me out of a job.
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Posted: 5/31/2020 12:04:25 AM EDT
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Mall that is the hot spot is University Square mall, which is next door to USF and down a little farther is MOSI(Museum Of Science and Industry).
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Posted: 5/31/2020 12:45:43 AM EDT
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I thought that looked like University but I couldn't see well enough to confirm. Looked like they tear gassed everyone or something at the end of the stream I had found there. Might keep an ear out on Broadcastify tonight just in case this spreads or has any knock-on effects in the wider area.
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Posted: 5/31/2020 1:43:17 PM EDT
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crazy!
I was ready, but I figured the protestors would mock my Olight WML and Holosun RDO, so I stayed home. 
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Posted: 5/31/2020 2:03:08 PM EDT
[#8]
What’s with all of the paper towels ?
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Posted: 5/31/2020 2:06:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What’s with all of the paper towels ? where you been for the past 3 months? That's how I'm gonna form my harem of soccer moms, by trading their husbands paper towels and TP for their wives. |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 4:19:20 PM EDT
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If the relatively full shelves of it at Target yesterday are any indication I think your currency has unfortunately been de-valued
 On a more serious note - was there any trouble over in your neck of the woods? I didn't hear anything from over there but I was also more concerned with keeping an eye on the Tampa stuff. |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 4:43:53 PM EDT
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Most Walmarts in Tampa area are closing immediately. Brandon Town Center also asked everyone to leave and is closing. Sounds like things are currently getting sporty near MLK and 22nd. Probably going to be a long night for our first responsders.
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Posted: 5/31/2020 6:00:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If the relatively full shelves of it at Target yesterday are any indication I think your currency has unfortunately been de-valued On a more serious note - was there any trouble over in your neck of the woods? I didn't hear anything from over there but I was also more concerned with keeping an eye on the Tampa stuff. I've heard of nothing over here in Pinellas. |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 6:00:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most Walmarts in Tampa area are closing immediately. Brandon Town Center also asked everyone to leave and is closing. Sounds like things are currently getting sporty near MLK and 22nd. Probably going to be a long night for our first responsders. Damn. |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 7:12:15 PM EDT
[#14]
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor just enacted a curfew for the city starting at 7:30pm. This shit is beyond out of hand.
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Posted: 5/31/2020 7:18:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: where you been for the past 3 months? That's how I'm gonna form my harem of soccer moms, by trading their husbands paper towels and TP for their wives. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What's with all of the paper towels ? where you been for the past 3 months? That's how I'm gonna form my harem of soccer moms, by trading their husbands paper towels and TP for their wives. oh wait
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Posted: 5/31/2020 8:06:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tampa Mayor Jane Castor just enacted a curfew for the city starting at 7:30pm. This shit is beyond out of hand. 100 NG headed to Tampa at her request. Tracking Pinellas and Pasco, nothing yet. Maybe too redneck? |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 8:11:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 100 NG headed to Tampa at her request. Tracking Pinellas and Pasco, nothing yet. Maybe too redneck? Pasco? Possibly too country but certainly not Pinellas. Also, Lakeland is a cluster fuck right now and that’s Grady Judd’s county so all bets are off. Just watched a video posted elsewhere on this site showing motherfuckers jumping on someone’s car and kicking in their windshield. |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 8:16:59 PM EDT
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per facebook Ocala got some rioting(can't confirm) and they closed the Walmart on 27 in Leesburg(per facebook) made everyone leave just in case. Good distance between the two, I wonder what sort of intel they got.
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Posted: 5/31/2020 8:32:03 PM EDT
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Good to hear, thanks Spartacus. Pinellas is mostly urban sprawl, decidedly not rural like the interior can be. My main concern is that I have a lot of family in north Pinellas that probably wouldn't know any of this was going on unless it came to their doorstep. I should probably make a couple wellness checks tonight...
Meanwhile, in Pasco, I haven't seen any sign of impending hootenanny, but we're also set back about 3/4 mile from the local lootie destination. I found the radio frequency for Wiregrass (local mall thing) given as 466.9125 but haven't gotten anything but static. I figure that or the grove are the two biggest targets around here. Will advise in the unlikely event that anything actually happens around here. |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 8:43:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pasco? Possibly too country but certainly not Pinellas. Also, Lakeland is a cluster fuck right now and that’s Grady Judd’s county so all bets are off. Just watched a video posted elsewhere on this site showing motherfuckers jumping on someone’s car and kicking in their windshield. Lakeland resident here. Cluster fuck indeed. Two groups have been bussed in. One from Tampa, one from Orlando. Facebook and social feeds indicate they are waiting for nightfall. My daughters were out shopping, we called them home early. They indicated there are police everywhere. We're all home, and everyone knows their role. Hopefully it is a quiet night. Don't see Grady putting up with too much shit. |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 8:50:59 PM EDT
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not trying to ninja the thread, but in the interest of consolidation, lake county just got a curfew 10pm to 5am
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Posted: 5/31/2020 9:09:12 PM EDT
[#22]
No worries, updated to reflect statewide info coming in. Post it if you've got it.
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Posted: 5/31/2020 9:12:12 PM EDT
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All quiet here in Collier .
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Posted: 5/31/2020 9:52:34 PM EDT
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Quoted: Lakeland resident here. Cluster fuck indeed. Two groups have been bussed in. One from Tampa, one from Orlando. Facebook and social feeds indicate they are waiting for nightfall. My daughters were out shopping, we called them home early. They indicated there are police everywhere. We're all home, and everyone knows their role. Hopefully it is a quiet night. Don't see Grady putting up with too much shit. Very interesting that. Wounder who set up and paid for that? 
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Posted: 5/31/2020 9:55:57 PM EDT
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Orange county sent out a phone alert that there's a curfew tonight from 10 till five. My daughter works at Publix in Winter Garden, and they sent everybody home early. I'm getting text messages from friends that say there's talk about looting Fowlers Grove in Winter Garden which is at the intersection of the 429 Daniels Rd. very upscale suburbia
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Posted: 5/31/2020 10:03:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2020 10:11:08 PM EDT
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Beach Drive in St. Pete is going crazy right now according to unnamed sources. There appears to be a moderate police presence there. St. Pete police can handle First Friday around MacDinton's pretty handily and their tax base is overrepresented by the area east of 4th st and N of USF, so I hope that things stay good for tonight.
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Posted: 5/31/2020 10:15:20 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: All quiet here Collier . Lee and Charlotte has no activity currently. Hopefully it stays that way. |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 11:13:21 PM EDT
[#29]
West Oaks Mall in Ocoee(south of winter garden) is reported looted clean/damaged.
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Posted: 5/31/2020 11:25:17 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Beach Drive in St. Pete is going crazy right now according to unnamed sources. There appears to be a moderate police presence there. St. Pete police can handle First Friday around MacDinton's pretty handily and their tax base is overrepresented by the area east of 4th st and N of USF, so I hope that things stay good for tonight. @a555 define “going crazy” for us? |
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Posted: 5/31/2020 11:33:45 PM EDT
[#31]
One of our cops had his "neck slashed" last night. No updates in the news, though. All they said last night is that he was at the hospital.
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Posted: 6/1/2020 12:06:47 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: @a555 define “going crazy” for us? Shoot. This would be crazy under normal circumstances, it seems mild in comparison to elsewhere. I know they blocked traffic and had people in the streets. Police appeared to be on top of things. |
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Posted: 6/1/2020 8:21:15 AM EDT
[#33]
No issues overnight up here. Or, at least, if there were they didn't make it down the road to the neighborhood. Pasco PD isn't on Broadcastify so all I got was the EMS system calling out a bunch of diabetics and heart trouble dispatches.
I'm still working from home today, but I'll check in with people in the office and see how downtown is looking. Sounds like business as usual so far but I also don't think anyone would notice or care unless people actually kicked in the door or jammed them up in traffic. ETA: Co-worker in the office today reported business as usual downtown. Will check at the end of the day to see if anything develops, might do some surveying from the top of a local garage and possibly roam the area a bit tomorrow when it's my turn to head in. |
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Posted: 6/1/2020 10:36:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: per facebook Ocala got some rioting(can't confirm) and they closed the Walmart on 27 in Leesburg(per facebook) made everyone leave just in case. Good distance between the two, I wonder what sort of intel they got. I saw in one of the word of mouth Facebook groups that Target and Walmart in Leesburg and The Villages (Lady Lake) were targeted for looting. I don't know the source of that information or if anything actually happened. I was in Orlando last night just before things got sporty. 408 was closed at I-4 and there were more Troopers in that immediate area then I've ever seen in one place before. All the Wawa stores closed at 9:00 PM and taped off their fuel pumps (I'm assuming they were turned off from inside the store). |
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Posted: 6/1/2020 1:52:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most Walmarts in Tampa area are closing immediately. Brandon Town Center also asked everyone to leave and is closing. Sounds like things are currently getting sporty near MLK and 22nd. Probably going to be a long night for our first responsders. Maybe that's been the intent from some of these groups all along, wreck the local communities. Antifa is having a field day with all these protests! Coronavirus is the perfect cover too, since everyone is already wearing masks! |
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Posted: 6/1/2020 3:51:01 PM EDT
[#36]
I think so, yeah. As always it seems to be a mix - all the Antifa types see a chance to go LARP at being revolutionaries, and in the course of smashing the evil fascist symbols of corporatism (AKA the local auto parts store) they instigate a lot of other people to say "hell with it" and join in, and the looters of opportunity just see a chance to get more stuff in the name of social justice. The original message falls by the wayside and ceases to matter, and as usual, nothing positive comes of any of it.
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Posted: 6/1/2020 5:26:22 PM EDT
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Citrus county reporting in... crickets
We do have a “peaceful protest” scheduled for tomorrow evening in Lecanto at a church. Everything is so spread out here they’d die from exhaustion before they could loot more than a mattress or flooring store. I doubt anything will happen unless they bus in agitators and have transpo for everyone. |
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Posted: 6/1/2020 6:11:26 PM EDT
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Any south Tampa people here? Worried it’s really going pop off if they decide to bring the rioting and looting to the neighborhood, since it seems like ever other house is retired military or LEO. A lot of trump supporters on my block. Heard they had to block off Bayshore and rioters had to be stopped from trying to get on Davis island last night.
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Posted: 6/1/2020 6:22:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Any south Tampa people here? Worried it’s really going pop off if they decide to bring the rioting and looting to the neighborhood, since it seems like ever other house is retired military or LEO. A lot of trump supporters on my block. Heard they had to block off Bayshore and rioters had to be stopped from trying to get on Davis island last night. Start talking to neighbors and setup a neighborhood patrol and if necessary, a road block (with some high power spot lights). If everyone can recognize everyone else easy enough you’re good, but if it gets froggy, you may want IFF armbands etc. After dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in Miami, just an intimidating presence at the entrance should deter troublemakers. |
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Posted: 6/1/2020 6:55:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bet no protests next door in Polk county. Remember in January when a Sanders staffer said that Milwaukee and other cities will burn if Bernie wasn’t on the presidential ticket? Think this is a trial run at it since the DNC convention was cancelled? Just saw Judd on the NEWS. He said something to the effect, LET ME WARN YOU  Right on TV Polk county SHERIFF said our residence are armed. If a rioters trys to break in to their homes ect. They will get blown right back out. I encourage our residences to use those guns if they are threatened by these rioters who are not protesters. But criminals. So basically old Grady Judd said if rioters come into your neighborhood and threaten you on your property. I assume that means business also if you are there protecting it. Blow them away. I take back everything I've said about old Judd he talks like we think.
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Posted: 6/1/2020 10:04:23 PM EDT
[#41]
I'm north of tampa but I work downtown. I was remote today but office folks reported things were normal this morning. Seems like most of it that I heard about remained centered around the University mall area, and things were apparently less rowdy last night. I get the feeling that there won't be enough motivation to get anything really bad going and that this will peter out over the next couple days, but I'm also not taking any chances.
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Posted: 6/1/2020 10:25:36 PM EDT
[#42]
Wifey's feed says they are burning stores tonight. (Tampa)
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Posted: 6/1/2020 10:59:08 PM EDT
[#43]
Peachy. Got a location or link?
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Posted: 6/1/2020 11:29:32 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm north of tampa but I work downtown. I was remote today but office folks reported things were normal this morning. Seems like most of it that I heard about remained centered around the University mall area, and things were apparently less rowdy last night. I get the feeling that there won't be enough motivation to get anything really bad going and that this will peter out over the next couple days, but I'm also not taking any chances. That area is a shithole. We call it suitcase city. Worked station 13 called the house of pain and at hospital in that area on rescue unit. We had a FRS MAV located there. That area and around Hillsborough ave and 34th st area are all crap areas. |
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Posted: 6/1/2020 11:37:04 PM EDT
[#45]
There was a helicopter circling around my neighborhood near Rocky Point for about 40 minutes this evening, but all seems quiet here.
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Posted: 6/1/2020 11:45:51 PM EDT
[#46]
Yeah, I was struck by how long it's been that way too. I was talking to a guy who must've graduated in the late '80s-early '90s knew it well too. I lived off 42nd just north of campus when I was there - actually bought my first pistol (the CZ that gave me my name here) at University Gun and Pawn down on Fletcher. The first night I spent in my apartment out there, I had to run to Walmart for something around midnight, and as I was standing up at the overcrowded checkout line I heard someone yell "man I'm an ex-convict, I will make this line move"
Great place. Truly, just top quality people out there. |
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Posted: 6/2/2020 7:34:10 AM EDT
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Downtown appears quiet. Nothing out of the ordinary visible from 275 on the drive in. Will update if that changes later.
ETA: talked to a coworker who lives in Temple Terrace - he got diverted by a TPD roadblock on his way home that night, but didn't directly see anything and his neighborhood didn't appear to be affected. He mentioned seeing some evidence of things getting a little sporty up by the 275/I4 onramp and that police were staging up at various spots as he was leaving yesterday, but he didn't say anything about actually seeing anyone doing sketchy things. |
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Posted: 6/2/2020 9:37:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, I was struck by how long it's been that way too. I was talking to a guy who must've graduated in the late '80s-early '90s knew it well too. I lived off 42nd just north of campus when I was there - actually bought my first pistol (the CZ that gave me my name here) at University Gun and Pawn down on Fletcher. The first night I spent in my apartment out there, I had to run to Walmart for something around midnight, and as I was standing up at the overcrowded checkout line I heard someone yell "man I'm an ex-convict, I will make this line move" Great place. Truly, just top quality people out there. University Pawn oh yeah remember that place. It's still there. Bought a several guns from them. Use to drive from Plant City to go there. |
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Posted: 6/2/2020 2:03:07 PM EDT
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Just received word from HR that a protest is confirmed for 4PM at the Tampa city hall. We're right in that area so we're all being sent home NLT 3:30. I'm not hanging around to see what happens as that demonstration will block my way out but I'll take note of anything i see.
ETA: left at 230 to get ahead of the (literal) mob. Saw a few hangers-around outside City Hall, probably early birds. TPD had a lot of vehicles staged up along Kennedy and most of the cross streets along my route out were already blocked with concrete barriers and heavy vehicles. My straight shot up Florida Ave to the interstate was uneventful and unimpeded. Stopped at Shoot Straight to do a peace of mind check on my AR pistol, which will be discreetly coming to work with me for the foreseeable future. Parking lot was practically overflowing. Looked like the WuFlu buying rush but worse inside - range was relatively open but the store itself was packed with shoppers of all colors and creeds. Made me glad I was there to shoot and not to buy. Also - 301 reportedly shut down at Big Bend Rd for a protest there. Gonna be a long night... |
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Posted: 6/2/2020 2:12:18 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just received word from HR that a protest is confirmed for 4PM at the Tampa city hall. We're right in that area so we're all being sent home NLT 3:30. I'm not hanging around to see what happens as that demonstration will block my way out but I'll take note of anything i see. Stay safe! |
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