The "D.C. Blackout": What happened during the anti-police protests in Washington, D.C. on May 31 – June 1, 2020?

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The "D.C. Blackout": What happened during the anti-police protests in Washington, D.C. on May 31 – June 1, 2020?

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So unfortunately, at this stage I'm not anywhere close to a comprehensive write up on the recurring details reported by eyewitnesses re this event.

If you were following the nationwide George Floyd/anti-police protests a couple of years ago, you may have noticed on Twitter that #DCBlackout was trending along with #DCSafe. The thousands of bot accounts promoting #DCSafe were copy-pasting the same message that there was no cop violence in D.C., only some "uppity" protesters causing trouble. Twitter, Facebook, etc. were fully complicit in suppressing the news of atrocities, as a tool of the Yankee police state.

I do remember the hashtag #DCBlackout trending, and I can only say that the U.S. security state does violently suppress protests and enacts a total communications blackout as a matter of standard operating procedure.

But there appears to be enough evidence that a "blackout" of the George Floyd/anti-police protests in Washington D.C. occurred overnight on May 31–June 1, 2020, roughly from 1 am to 6 am.

It is agreed that there was violent confrontation between police and unarmed protesters, and that there were even police cars being set on fire. Apparently, there was fighting up to the White House lawn, and it was confirmed that President Trump was hiding in a bunker. The last images reportedly from D.C. was of entire city blocks on fire around the Washington Monument: https://i.imgur.com/u55kLSc.jpg, https://twitter.com/DCBLACKOUT5/status/ ... 17/photo/4

What happened after 1 a.m. isn't as clear, but I'll try to summarize some of the recurrent details I've noticed across eyewitness accounts:

• There was city-wide jamming of all cellular and Internet service so no information could travel. (This is contradicted by corporate journalists who were also on the ground, and US regime-change asset NetBlocks: https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/12 ... 7416653828)

• People could only use internet thru VPN

• The traffic cameras around Washington D.C. were jammed

• National guardsmen and militarized police were spotted with suppressors on their rifles, indicating live ammunition chambered, not rubber bullets: https://twitter.com/santiagomayer_/stat ... 5825466372

• Twitter accounts being hacked, a flood of bots repeating #DCSafe

• photos and video being deleted from phones' camera rolls & cloud storage

• hundreds to thousands of missing protesters

• D.C. streets being power-washed on the morning of June 1 (presumably to wash off blood)

• Streets being painted over the next morning

There was apparently hundreds to thousands of new pieces of information coming out from D.C. every minute, which suddenly stopped sometime after 1 a.m. on June 1. The official narrative is that the protesters simply got tired and went home. That is nonsense, because not just D.C., but the entire country was electrified with unrest toward the injustice of police brutality. People also work night shifts, and some people stay up at night, and we know there were tens of thousands of protesters at least. So entire crowds dissipated around 1 am? This is unbelievable.

I'll now share with you a thread on reddit from a year ago, which was posted by a user who has since abandoned their account: https://old.reddit.com/user/president_cheet0/overview

The user seems legitimate, they posted in communist subreddits and the account has a decently long post history. But after that thread was posted (across multiple forums), they went inactive.

Here's the contents of the thread (emphasis mine):
What was the D.C. Blackout?

One year ago, on May 30^th, 2020, the BLM protests in D.C. were turning up. The goal was to burn down the establishment until justice was chosen over white supremacy, in relation to policing. The protesters marched to the White House where Trump was at the time.

The protesters stormed the White House lawn, movotov'd a guard tower, and attempted to take the White House (presumably to execute Trump) and Trump hid in the White House bunker. He was called "Bunker Boy" by the liberals which Biden himself called Trump during the presidential debates (another confirmation this indeed happened).

While in his bunker, Trump gave the order for the military to clear the grounds of all insurrectionists. The military threw smoke grenades and behind a line of smoke cover opened live fire on all the protesters. Many died right there.

Protesters ran but were hunted down in D.C. and executed in the streets like dogs. It was a bloodbath. The few that got away were taken in by residents, but that didn't last as the last information released by anyone that night was footage of protesters being held prisoner by pigs at an unknown facility in the area.

Before the massacre, the media's feeds were cut, there were reports of low-flying black helicopters using EMP machines that killed protester's phones (although clearly not 100% efficient in the fact), and all live-stream cameras that usually show the city online for anyone to see were cut.

This was all done simultaneously. This was a coordinated militant action only very well connected, trained, and resourced entities could accomplish. Footage was streamed before the blackout was complete by some showing blood covering the streets in patterns that resemble the space around bodies, another shows power-washing of the streets the next morning.

The blackout lasted the night and by morning everything was magically quiet, no one ever heard from again.

The MSM and democrat-controlled fact checking sites known to lie for the narrative said basically, "It was a hoax ... the footage was staged (presumably by protesters?) and everyone went to bed ... there was no cut of the footage."

We have physical evidence the feeds were cut, we have multiple recordings of this happening from people across the country. They changed the metadata and logs to say nothing was interrupted, yet again (David's commentary: recall the NetBlock Tweet I posted above allegedly showing that "cellular and internet connectivity remained stable"), we have multiple live recordings of this. Gaslight city.

Republicans still brag about it when this is brought up to them. Mention it on r/conservative and watch. They'll admit to it, the Dems will lie until their last days, like the coward scum they are.

People were tweeting like crazy about this but their twitter accounts were being hacked, posts deleted, and a mass copy-paste bot campaign pretending to be the protesters was unleashed. No one who was following the protests bought it. They used overwhelming electronic leverage over us (private company using proprietary software) to silence dissent.

So the counter-intelligence tactic was, "It's fake, they just all went to bed ... forever ...the numerous video accounts of the events were all fake..by who? Umm...Russia?"

Share these talking points with your liberal friend:

• If the liberals really are with BLM, why were their fact checkers and media pushing this clearly bullshit counter narrative?

• If they really want equality, why aren't they open to at the very least investigating these clear discrepancies in such a disturbing event?

• 4000 BLM protesters are slaughtered at Trump's order and silence?


So Trump decides to materially "fix" the protester problem and they silently agree.

It's largely the same police, White House staff, and national guard as when the reps were in charge so they clearly have such huge differences in ideology right?


#DCBlackout Evidence:

http://www.filedropper.com/dcblackout (David's comment: Here's an available download https://ufile.io/dqq3f9j4, I uploaded it here – be warned, there's some pictures/videos of blood)

What happened cannot and should not be forgotten nor go unanswered. These were real people with families, friends, they deserve closure and justice.
This file contains video and photo evidence of (among other disturbing things) large pools of blood along the streets, protesters being fired at, Twitter bot armies trying to suppress the emerging news of a blackout, deleted accounts of people following the protest or partaking in the protest, deployment of electronic warfare to disrupt the protester's communications, suppressors on the assault rifles of state police (try to guess what that's for...), and actual footage of what appears to be two private contractors (?) judging by their unmarked cars of the same model, firing an insane amounts of rounds into a target off-screen. A person laying still beside one of the men's cars, I can't tell if he's unconscious or dead or what, or if he was associated with these security/contractor guys. He appears to be wearing the same tactical gear as the others. But something terrible happened in Washington, D.C. in May of 2020, that received nowhere near the amount of attention it should've had.

I will only end the thread with this. The US has many decades of experience suppressing militant left-wing movements, both domestically and abroad. The Black Panthers and other black activists of the 1960's being a famous example. Operation CONDOR (Latin America) and Operation PHOENIX (Vietnam) showed that the US can operate clandestinely abroad to intimidate, spy on, terrorize, torture, disappear and kill hundreds of thousands of left-wing dissidents, for decades, with the vast complicity of thousands of local collaborators and mid-level functionaries to ensure its smooth running. Not to mention the Jakarta Method which saw well over one million Indonesian communists murdered by the U.S. installed regime, which had "kill lists" to hunt down community activists, left-wing intellectuals and others.

I posted the person's thread to several other forums and was told not to post "conspiracism". Any good communist should know that if the US has decades of experience disappearing tens of thousands of left-wing activists "over there", in the exploited periphery – to the point that such practices are highly institutionalized, e.g. training anti-communist dictators a la School of the Americas – then that experience is easily transferable here, in the imperial core.

That's why I think this thread is so concerning. There's obviously evidence that something terrible happened in Washington, D.C. back then. We don't know exactly what, or to what extent, but we know that at least several dozen people had to be killed. It's possible there are still thousands of protesters missing. I remember seeing footage of unarmed protesters receiving shrapnel and rubber bullets to the face. They were hospitalized. I know that militarized police destroyed water and medical supplies that were set-up by the protesters in their encampments (which is a war crime and also a standard of U.S. Army counter-insurgency tactics).

We know that Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc. are all just glossy privatized extensions of the Yankee national security state. There's no doubt that their algorithms suppress threats to the ruling class when necessary, such as a militant protest in the nation's capital which could inspire further militancy across the country and delegitimize the regime.

I'm even hesitant to share this thread because I think we all know the implications. Especially given the toll that two years of COVID, rising inflation, rising costs of living and precarious work conditions fans the flames of dissent. I read an article in the Wall Street Journal gloating about how U.S. strategic planners have prepared to fight decades-long domestic counterinsurgency wars in conditions exactly as I just described.

Please reflect on the things in here and share this if you can.
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this is a very interesting, revealing read given that more cops are being hired to deal with food shortages, etc....
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Incredibly disturbing stuff. I'll look at the files in the download link if I have the stomach for it. Do we know of any people mentioning online that friends/relatives have gone missing during that night? Although of course such people could easily be disappeared and the internet can easily be scrubbed of that sort of thing - still, something may have slipped through the cracks.
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i will add as well -- douglas valentine considers DHS to be a sort of global phoenix, because the structure of DHS is super similar.
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termi wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 9:23 pm Incredibly disturbing stuff. I'll look at the files in the download link if I have the stomach for it. Do we know of any people mentioning online that friends/relatives have gone missing during that night? Although of course such people could easily be disappeared and the internet can easily be scrubbed of that sort of thing - still, something may have slipped through the cracks.
Yes, I have a folder of bookmarks I'm combing through occasionally. I remember Instagram and TikTok screenshots with people saying their relatives still hadn't come home yet. I will look for those later – I have quite a few threads saved.
marxonwheels wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 9:28 pm i will add as well -- douglas valentine considers DHS to be a sort of global phoenix, because the structure of DHS is super similar.
Ooh. That's very interesting. Is that in his book CIA as Organized Crime?
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btw worth noting that Twitter returns 0 results when you search "dcblackout" between 31-05-2020 and 01-06-2020 - plenty of results for june 2nd, but from this alone it's pretty indisputable that massive censorship happened on the day itself

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termi wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 9:58 pm btw worth noting that Twitter returns 0 results when you search "dcblackout" between 31-05-2020 and 01-06-2020 - plenty of results for june 2nd, but from this alone it's pretty indisputable that massive censorship happened on the day itself

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Thank you, that is disturbing. I have #DCBlackout bookmarked, but the discussion starts after June 3rd when I see it. I know that YouTube still hides information on the protests, because a user uploaded a video documenting various atrocities, which is "unlisted". But the user never uploaded the video as unlisted. YouTube's own algorithm did that. So there's definitely attempts to suppress discussion of what happened.
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it's in that and his phoenix program book. kind of a overarching thesis in his work.
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Can anyone load https://web.archive.org/web/20200601001 ... lutS5xbqdw ? Found a link to this video on an RT article uploaded on June 1st (https://web.archive.org/web/20200601001 ... ers-rally/) but obviously the video is set to private and archive.org gives me the following for whatever reason:

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on my end --first link does not load. embedded tweets in the RT article do not load, but the article does. i also got that same "unusual traffic" page, so it must be universal
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