Were bricks found piled in Kenosha, Wisconsin placed by leftists in preparation for rioting?
A brief article published online about the bricks carried a headline that included "Leftists at work," but police in Kenosha — site of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial — issued a statement that, "To date, there is no credible threat to public safety."
During the protests following the death of George Floyd in 2020, photos of piles and stacks of bricks in various cities were often cited in online posts as evidence that protestors were planning violence. None of those claims proved to be true; the bricks were usually placed in construction locations in preparation for work.
The photo of bricks in the article about Kenosha first appeared online on June 1, 2020, and it was established then that the bricks were actually at a site in Dallas, Texas, and had been at that location for four months.