Al.com employees evacuated their downtown building this afternoon after an employee spotted a suspicious object on the building front doorstep.

The suspicious item is an oversized black, egg with a face painted on it. The egg was discovered about the same time Black Lives Matter protesters staged a demonstration in front of Birmingham police headquarters. Al.com's offices are located across the street from the police building.

The discovery was made just before 1 p.m. Birmingham's bomb squad investigators are on the scene, and have brought out their robot.

Alabama Media Group officials made the decision to evacuate employees about 2:30 p.m. Employees were allowed back into the building at 3:14 p.m. when police gave the all-clear.

The egg contained candy.