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Downtown businesses prepare for potential unrest pending election results

Christopher Horner
Christopher Horner
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Christopher Horner | Tribune-Review
Chris McDeavitt, manager of Ace’s Break Away and Play, boards up the arcade after closing on Tuesday night, Nov. 3, 2020, along Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh. Some businesses downtown, including banks and convenience stores, have begun boarding up their windows and doors after the election.
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Christopher Horner | Tribune-Review
The 7-11 convenience store and other businesses along Smithfield Street downtown, including banks and drug stores, have begun boarding up their windows and doors after the election on Tuesday night, Nov. 3, 2020, in Pittsburgh.
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Christopher Horner | Tribune-Review
Businesses along Smithfield Street downtown, including banks and convenience stores, have begun boarding up their windows and doors after the election on Tuesday night, Nov. 3, 2020, in Pittsburgh.
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Christopher Horner | Tribune-Review
The CVS pharmacy and other businesses along Smithfield Street downtown, including banks and convenience stores, have begun boarding up their windows and doors after the election on Tuesday night, Nov. 3, 2020, in Pittsburgh.
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Christopher Horner | Tribune-Review
Chris McDeavitt, manager of Ace’s Break Away and Play, boards up the arcade after closing on Tuesday night, Nov. 3, 2020, along Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh. Some businesses downtown, including banks and convenience stores, have begun boarding up their windows and doors after the election.
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Christopher Horner | Tribune-Review
Chris McDeavitt, manager of Ace’s Break Away and Play, boards up the arcade after closing on Tuesday night, Nov. 3, 2020, along Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh. Some businesses downtown, including banks and convenience stores, have begun boarding up their windows and doors after the election.

Some businesses in Downtown Pittsburgh, including banks and convenience stores, began boarding up their windows and doors Tuesday night as the country awaited the results of the 2020 election.

Apparently taking precautionary measures in the event of civil unrest, people were hanging plywood sheets over the glass at several businesses along Smithfield Street.

Representatives at the businesses said they still plan to open Wednesday.

They also said they would likely continue to board up the buildings as uncertainty surrounding election results lingered.

Christopher Horner is a TribLive sports photojournalist covering the Pittsburgh Pirates and high school sports. A Western Pennsylvania native, he has been at the Trib since 1995 documenting professional, collegiate and prep sporting events across the country. He can be reached at chorner@triblive.com.

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