Here are the 3 pictures that I took. I was not blocking the sidewalk, I wasn't taking pictures of anyone. I had just finished taking the last shot, when I looked up & saw the VA Police.
You can see across the street there are houses, which I was told if I lived there I couldn't stand on the lawn & take pictures. Serious.
The next two I wasn't even on the sidewalk next to the VA.
When the Chief of the VA police saw the picture of the sign and the butts, he said he wanted to see where I took them. So, we walked out there, I showed him, and he called down 3 officers who were smokers and made them clean it up. He told me, he's a non-smoker & it will teach them to do their job by stopping other VA employees from smoking near the VA. I was then allowed to go.