Continued Reporting on Protest:
Crisis at Red Hill
HONOLULU— The US Navy tanks at the Red Hill Fuel Storage Facility hold over 180 million gallons of fuel a day underground since WW2 to power the Pacific Fleet. Since November citizens have protested in favor of removal of those tanks which have contaminated the drinking water.
The tanks sit 100 feet above Honolulu’s Primary Aquifer.
Investigation Cancellation
The 2020-2021 project following civil unrest came to a close at the end of 2021.
Bylines still remain from Newsweek, Spiked, and LA Magazine from the on the ground documentation in LA, DC and PDX.
Current reporting with ABC affiliate KITV can be found under the social media handle @jeremyreporter.
Work continues with current 2022 reporting on the Red Hill Water Crisis in Honolulu, COVID response, & more:
The Portland Effect: ‘Antifascist Actions’ Come to Los Angeles
August 14th. LA City Hall Riot between SoCal Antifa and Patriot Militants.
Please see Twitter @UnblockedLive for Part 2
“For every action in nature, there is an equal opposite reaction.”
A non partisan report on extremism from all sides
Breaking:
5 Women File Police Reports for Indecent Exposure
SoCal Antifa Riot July 3rd & July 17th 2021 Breakdown
THE LATEST:
4 Photojournalists compare notes
from the Capitol & more
WiSpa Riots
‘SoCal Antifa’ via Twitter launched a unilateral attack against conservative aligned protesters at the WiSpa. Readers are still trying to decipher the chaos.
A two part breakdown of the July 17th clashes is forthcoming in the August issue of Los Angeles Magazine.
Part 1, recounting the July 3rd Antifa direct action ‘counter protest’, can be found on Substack and LA Magazine: 5 Women File Police Reports
Populace Extremism
January 7th (Washington DC) Updated March 2021
Public Report recorded a confession of responsibility on January 7th from a man professing to have coordinated an attack on the mainstream media pen.
The man from California identified as anti-Communist and “an extremist” in his own words. He espoused National Socialist sympathies & said he studied hundreds of hours of footage of Leftist black bloc riot tactics.
How fringe was he to the rest of the crowd? Or to the fringe itself?
This table below includes the names, charges, and links to court documents of all the people charged so far in the Capitol riot. Search table published by Insider.
Only 23 charged rioters have entered guilty pleas so far.
“We are gonna use their tactics in a Sun Tzu fashion that work…”
Update:
Chicago Project on Security & Threats study author, Keven Ruby, informed Public Report only 1 person among the arrested showed an ethno-gang affiliation.
Ruby Wrote: “The gang in question is the Latin Kings, not a white nationalist gang. We found no evidence of specifically white nationalist gangs (skinheads, Hammerskins, Aryan brotherhood etc.) among the arrested.”
Note:
The study revision in mid February include 1 individual listed as “Aryan Nations.”
A breakdown published in The Atlantic, The Capitol Rioters Aren’t Like Other Extremists, notes that of the initial 200 arrests only 1 in 10 belonged to a militia or group affiliation such as Oath Keepers, Proud Boys or Three Percenters:
Chicago Project:
Update 7/2/21:
Raw data analysis on Capitol Rioters
Of the now 500+ arrested who entered the Capitol:
Proud Boys: 31
Oath Keepers: 13
Three percenters: 7
Latin Kings: 1
Aryan Nation: 1
* 6 % of arrestees supported QAnon per the report.
“Preventing further violence from this movement will require a deeper understanding of its activities and participants.”
On the Brink
January 6th (Washington DC)
Who knew. I left my gas mask in my rental car as I arrived late at the Capitol in the 2pm hour. There were rumors of a breech.
I also forgot my regular COVID face mask so put on a brand new stars & stripes handkerchief.
The atmosphere was of an arena size music festival of 10s of thousands. Burrowing ahead through the crowd, you could see commotion ahead 2-3 football fields away on the terrace. Pepper spray & plumes of gas flourished.
The festive atmosphere was belied by an unknown amount of violence out of sight ahead.
THE CAPITOL: Who Was There
(VIDEO - interviews from the field)
The atmosphere was made up of a populist, Patriot crowd chanting USA, We the People, and Whose House, Our House.
Yet, I feared the same destabilizing tactics I had followed over the course of 7 months were being applied by MAGA banner insurrectionists & even possible fringe anarcho agitators rioting above.
Capitol Riot Debrief:
Conversation with Bret Weinstein #3
Inside the Capitol
“This is history,” the man with the grizzly beard asserted, after asking that press document his actions.
"Are you press? You want the story of your life?"
— Jeremy Lee Quinn (@JLeeQuinn) January 14, 2021
The guy I call Fogerty, for later riffing on Fortunate Son, invites me over.
He takes the megaphone, "I'm going into Capitol Hill by myself. Who wants to back me the fuck up?"
Only livestream I know of,https://t.co/85HZACnf8e pic.twitter.com/sAFoHHlHPd
Note: the video content from the last livestream inside the Capitol on Jan.6th, namely the section featuring “bulllhorn lady,” was not released to media outlets for use.
The Capitol Violence
Note: At least one civilian suicide has also been reported.
Gun arrests in Capitol vicinity: 3
Gun arrests 1 mile from Capitol: 3
Source: Capitol PD, MPD & Justice Dept.
Dozens constantly spider-manned their way up the interior of the scaffolding.
5pm hour: A group of MAGA rioters, spanning in age from youth to seniors, ransacked the congressional offices.
WHO WILL KNOW WHO IS WHO
January 5th (Washington DC)
The stage is set in the nation’s capital.
Going by the events of the night before, Tuesday the 5th, confusion is in the forecast.
MAGA demonstrators dressed in varied costumes:
Patriot garb, paramilitary garb, some in all black or some even wearing orange beanies ala leftist group Shut Down DC.
Anti-COVID restrictions, Stop the Steal & Anti-Antifa protesters clashed with police Tuesday at BLM plaza.
The Proud Boys chairman was released earlier in the day from custody & banned from DC.
Above: Post by Enrique Tarrio on Parler - December 12th in DC
Enrique Tarrio was arrested on January 4th entering DC. He spoke with Public Report on Unblocked Podcast & gave a statement 1/2 hour before the arrest.
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Update: the expected “Antifa” aligned activists vs. Proud Boys conflict at night never materialized due to the siege on the Capitol. BLM plaza was all but empty the evening of 1/6.
BLM DC publicly called on activists to stay home. Other leftist activist groups’ social media accounts leading up to June 6th indicated an active agenda including protesting hotels.
Beyond Division:
Common Ground
December 31st, 2020
On NYE, this publication hosted a live talk between a BLM chapter & now former Proud Boys leader (he was kicked out for participating in this discussion). Here are some general points of agreement from the conversation:
Police reform
Prison reform
End the war on drugs
End the 2 party duopoly
Combat sex trafficking
Act to address the housing crisis
Get big money out of politics
Editorial note:
While opinions & peace efforts espoused in podcast appearances seek to illuminate and contextualize the research of PublicReport.org, the site itself strives to offer a non partisan record of the US civil unrest in 2020 and into 2021.
This publication does not endorse any group interviewed on podcasts. The Proud Boys member has since been kicked out of the group for participating in this interview.
The Streets of DC
December 13th (Washington DC)
After the Trump MAGA rally at Freedom Plaza 12/12, the 2nd of its kind in a month, mobs clashed & attacked each other from both sides of the political spectrum across 1-2 square miles after 5:30pm. At 6:15pm MPD faced off with the black bloc swarming the Hyatt Place where Trump supporting guests stood outside (video 1). They then moved on the Hilton, where after an isolated scuffle, Trump supporters sang Christmas carols and patriotic songs while MPD held the line.
At 7pm a Proud Boys / MAGA group then marched on BLM plaza via a western alleyway (video 2) and was immediately routed. By the end of the night, one police line faced the black bloc while another halted a Proud Boys led crowd from marching again on BLM plaza.
The 11pm march was in response to a stabbing near MAGA & Proud Boys hang out spot Harry’s bar roughly 2 hours earlier. 4 people had been stabbed after a Proud Boys crowd encircled a man with a knife.
33 people were arrested over the course of the night.
Antifa aligned black bloc went to the Hyatt and Hilton hotels at 6:15pm to confront Trump supporters after sundown. At the Hyatt, a fireworks explosive was thrown into the crowd from a supporter of the right, sparking chaos.
MPD struggles to keep the groups separated in DC at 7pm as a Proud Boys led MAGA contingent made a surprise appearance near BLM Plaza through an alleyway to the west. Numerous attacks from both sides were well documented (LINK) & spread out across town.
After the MAGA crowd surprised the black bloc by appearing through an alleyway at 7pm west of BLM plaza, a young man on a megaphone points out a lone, random patriot type vulnerable for attacking.
MPD keeps the Proud Boys march at bay by the Hilton hotel at 11pm. At BLM plaza, black bloc practitioners clash with police as Proud Boys heckle from afar. Proud Boys had torn down a BLM sign on the way from a church and in a separate incident burned one.
Who Struck First?
Once night fell, black bloc radicals convened in McPherson Square park and were opposed by Proud Boys by 5:30-6pm.
Two large masses of BLM aligned demonstrators held separate marches . Meanwhile, smaller bands of Proud Boys roamed the streets also in search of conflict.
It was the black bloc charging towards the Hyatt at 6:15 that kicked the already volatile night into high gear. The hotel had been the scene of conflict the night before between social justice activists & a MAGA group from upstate NY.
The black bloc swarmed with MPD impeding their way. Then BOOM. The firework was thrown from the MAGA side.
In addressing the larger question of which side attacked first in DC, one would have to go back to January of 2017 in Washington DC (VIDEO).
See DeploraBall 2017
Proud Boys and MAGA aligned folks stood outside their hotel 1/3 of a block from BLM plaza. Once activists charged them, police stepped in. A MAGA supporter launched a firework over the police line. Video: Chuck Modi
“A pox on both our houses,” one Antifa public figure told me. The back & forth conflict between the Proud Boys and Antifa aligned black bloc groups dates back to early 2017.
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What Went Down
(Los Angeles)
In support of BLM I attended protests the weekend of May 30th & 31st. After witnessing widespread coordinated riot actions in the streets of LA, I followed up on every lead nationwide for months.
I expected to find supremacists agitating the protests. Instead, I found a culture of virally networked black bloc tactics & revolutionary politics, mentored by an older generation.
As I told the NY Times, I pursued the project as long as I did in search of transparency in insurrection & the public’s right to the messy truth.
Jeremy Lee Quinn, Editor
Sveriges Radio interview - Viral black bloc tactics & the cultural roots of Antifa.
Berkeley Antifa in SF
October 17th (San Francisco)
Hundreds mobilized to shut down with force a dozen political activists at a right wing free speech event.
The organizer, Philip Anderson, who claimed Proud Boys association, had his 2 front teeth knocked out before the rally began. A hate crime was charged against the Berkeley Antifa aligned black bloc attacker.
Black conservative organizer punched out by black bloc before rally
Video: Denis Ivan Perez-Bravo
Beinart in a 2017 interview with WNYC
Crowd circles around the block to attack Trump supporters
Video: JLQuinn Stills: Associated Press
Bray in a 2017 interview with Vox on his book
Berkeley Antifa aligned groups distribute shields to the crowd on Oct. 17th
“I was gonna kick his legs too but the pigs came out.” :22
The Right: Unarmed Michigan Protesters
December 6th (Detroit)
Detroit Police gave us the opening soundbite confirming what we were also told by Michigan State police and the protesters themselves at the Secretary of State’s home:
They were unarmed.
By lightening the video from the livestream of the protest, you can see there are no guns.
How does such colossal misinformation make it into the mainstream?
One news outlet, a conservative publication, changed their report following Unblocked Podcast breaking the story.
Video livestream: Genevieve Peters
The Left: Mic Crenshaw
December 2nd (Portland)
Portland cultural activist & MC Mic Crenshaw was an original founder of Antiracist Action (ARA) & the Baldies. Mic speaks with photojournalist Jeremy Lee Quinn about the path ahead & the consciousness of cultural activism.
With the recent completion of the Uncovered podcast series, focused on understanding anarchism and insurrectionist direct action, the mission of the new series is to foster dialogue among opposing viewpoints.
The goal of this series is to break the outrage based echo chambers of modern media and encourage our society to gravitate towards conversation, consensus & progress.
Join us on Facebook for select video cast editions.
Investigating the Hard Right
October 31st
To the Critics:
I reported from Portland, Seattle, Denver, Washington DC, Rochester NY & several cities in California in black bloc. I was not bloc’d up in Louisville, Atlanta or Tulsa.
It was in Tulsa I first tailed the Proud Boys & months later sought to interview their Chairman for the podcast as I did Rose City Antifa.
My public efforts in speaking to both sides, were on the topic of Peace in the week preceding the Sept. 26th Portland Proud Boys rally; And if the 2 groups might hold separate events.
I was undercover at both rallies in distinct costumes that day amidst the Portland state of emergency.
JLQ
What About…
Men with guns: In Tulsa, Louisville and Portland I made an effort to question them. As a pacifist not raised around firearms, it was new territory.
I never found anyone in my experience that was operating outside the interest of 2nd Amendment constitutional advocacy. The young man on the far right took his Hawaiian shirt off an hour later because he didn’t get why people were calling him a racist.
Note: This does not mean supremacists with guns aren’t an issue. We simply found no evidence of them commandeering riot actions in cities I observed between May 26th - October 27th.
Our first report was quick to mention Steven Carillo, the self identifying “Boogaloo” shooter who killed two officers in an anti-government action during the Oakland protests.
Images: Federal documents
June 20th: On the streets when Donald Trump took the stage in Tulsa.
Due diligence: Whenever I saw men with guns & Hawaiian shirts I made an effort to interview them. Tulsa, June 20th.
Youtube still, Brandon Caserta
What about: The plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan. This case, like the Boogaloo case of an alleged arms sales attempt to Hamas, raises questions. Brandon Caserta is the alleged kidnapping plot leader. The flag on the left I recognize, but not the one on the right.
Update: A Boogaloo adherent from Texas, Ivan Harrison Hunter, has been charged for firing shots at the Minneapolis 3rd precinct on May 28th. Video shows Hunter yelling “Justice for Floyd” according to the complaint.
Hunter is alleged to have ties with the two Boogaloo bois charged with attempting to sell weapons to Hamas.
The complaint alleges Hunter also communicated with Carrillo as each carried out individual actions in May. Carrillo allegedly sent $200 to Hunter over cash app a week later.
Facebook profile, Ivan Harrison Hunter
The complaint: Hunter’s FB banner with a “Don’t Kneel on Us” Libertarian, Black panther flag.
Investigation:
“Under the Cover of Protests”
Evidence: 180 Day Investigation
A Conclusion: Insurrectionary Anarchist Tactics in the US
(Report series 1-4 archived below)
Labor Day Weekend:
3 distinct demonstrations first weekend of September with regional variation
1. Rochester / NYC - BLM uprising (Community w prepared Insurrectionary Anarchist action)
Elders: ”Let them start the fight.” Majority nights of peace...
2. Louisville - Patriot aligned militia march vs. community opposition. Separate BLM aligned Black militia march & assorted militia presence. Community march. Guns everywhere.
3. Portland - 100th night of continued Insurrectionary Anarchist Direct Action vs. PD
September 29th (Portland)
Following Anarcho-Antifa Black bloc practitioners: West to East
2 body cam images: Portland, OR Aug 1st. POV cam.
Rochester, NY a little over a month later.
Protesters Preach Anarchism - In Washington DC it was spelled out
DC: A journalist is interrogated during protests on Sept. 23rd.
Video: National Journalism Center
A conversation with ‘Antifa’
See linktr.ee/UnblockedPod for more.
Return to Ferguson
We all have blinders. I never understood the story of Michael Brown. I didn’t get how the saga of uprising started here and not in NYC where I was covering Eric Garner’s death by illegal NYPD chokehold.
I walk around Ferguson, St. Louis. There are no memorials. Yet this is where Insurrectionary Anarchists tout their involvement in 2014 with new tactics & alliances born in uprising.
Like in so many inner city communities, none of the businesses are Black owned; not even the Black beauty supply store.
We need radical solutions to combat Insurrection with opportunity.
Reparative subsidized downpayment programs paving the way to first time home ownership is key: A new GI bill, financial literacy starting in middle school…
Advocacy for non partisan journalism & the arts to bring back understanding & tools to parse out online partisan propaganda.
JLQ, Editor September, 2020 (Missouri)
A Cornered Cat
September 23rd. - Shots fired in Louisville. At 830pm the march was surrounded on all sides. Many were open carrying. A YouTube Live streamer, after the ensuing shooting at police officers, referenced the saying that a cornered cat is most dangerous.
In our experience in Louisville, Community was strong and gravitating towards non violent protest. Earlier in the afternoon we saw individual protesters shutting down agitators trying to use fireworks. But the arrival of a U-Haul with Anarcho - Antifascist symboled shields changed everything.
Louisville MPD then made the same error so many other US cities have: Instead of letting the crowd march unimpeded, PD confronted the shield line. Seen on FB Livestream, the Black bloc AND protesters alike were wrestled to the concrete by cops in a “kettling” maneuver. The mood shifted yet again.
The crowd is cornered. Earlier in the day, a U-Haul of shields shifted the mood, preparing marchers for conflict with PD.
Video: Regg Inkagnedo
Anarcho Antifa UHaul - :53 A Black man is leading the crowd then a white woman with an east coast accent takes the bullhorn to give a rundown of advisory tactics.
Video: Regg Inkagnedo
Sept. 5 - Lots of groups. Lots of guns. Louisville, KY
Sept. 7 - Rochester looks like Portland. But elders make the difference.
Sept. 5 - Insurrectionary Anarchists vs. the PD in Portland: 100 days & nights
Video: Brendan Gutenschwager
Summer 2020 - Interview with Black bloc adherent in Denver
Video: Author Unknown
Portland Deadly Shooting Evidence
August 30, 2020
A leader of Patriot Prayer has called the victim a “supporter” of the group.
The apparent exchange of mace & gunfire took place at the end of a Trump caravan rally & several street feuds.
The shooter or his black bloc companion appear to say “We got one.” The skateboarder exits separately from the two suspects who quickly flee to screen right. The skateboarder is a possible witness as he does not wear a mask & comes back for his skateboard.
Update: Suspect Michael Reinoehl was shot & killed by federal officers on Sept. 3rd. In instagram posts he identified as “100% Antifa.” He had never posted political content before May 30th 2020 to his account.
The NY Times reports the 2nd phrase to be “We got a couple right here.” The shooting took place at around 8:45pm. The Trump caravan was scheduled 4-9pm.
Video: Justin Dunlap
UPDATE:
3 distinct riot types last week of August with regional variation
1. Kenosha - BLM uprising (Community w facilitating Insurrectionary Anarchist action) VIDEO
2. Portland - Antifascist action vs. New Right brawl VIDEO
3. Denver - Insurrectionary Anarchist Direct Action march vs. PD Read about the death of Elijah McClain
Editors note: the material from Kenosha is graphic. Scroll past to more investigative pdf content explaining Direct Action Anarchism if warranted.
UPDATE:
KENOSHA TIMELINE
August 26, 2020
Public Report now has the only complete video timeline of the Kenosha events (below) surrounding the 17 year old who shot 3 people, killing 2.
As a non partisan, non monetized entity communicating with reporters on the ground, we were uniquely positioned to assemble Fair Use content from over a dozen sources.
As the crowd rushes the suspect, the suspect fires and misses an older man in street cloths by inches before killing the 2nd victim of the night.
Video: Brendan Gutenschwager
Police in Kenosha drove the crowd from city hall by deploying tear gas and rubber munitions. Video: Mark Dice
Complete timeline of events and explanation how the 1st shot was not fired by the suspect (per NY Times). Kenosha: Credited in Video
Opinion: Are Anarchists for Real…
Or just a sideshow barometer for social breakage?
September 15, 2020
Establishment media still continues to overlook trending black bloc tactics especially in DC, Minneapolis, Portland & Seattle with satellite activity in Denver, Sacramento and the SF Bay.
AdBusters - Blackspot, the Vancouver collective that organized Occupy Wall Street, announced over the summer big plans for a DC Occupation in the form of a siege on the White House. But are they even the insurrectionists of influence?
Aligned groups & Northwest elements of Insurrectionary Anarchism have yet to join in with the call to action. Do “Insurrectos” (as they are called in the scene) have the cohesion and apparatus outside of BLM for anything other than agitation from within?
NOTE: We’ve been undercover marching with self described leftist Insurrectionists & Revolutionaries in DC, Seattle, Portland & beyond.
So yes. They’re real - but localized in unique scenes without a major event to capitalize on. Insurrectionary Anarchist ideology, tactics & rhetoric, however, networked online through contemporary ‘antifa’ aligned groups, have permeated into the social justice movement with blazing efficiency.
The question is if the genie is now out of the bottle.
Will other fringe or populist groups appropriate the techniques down the line ?
Archived initial Pdf Reports from June 2020
”The temperature is real, the transparency is not”
Part 1 “What We Missed”
Part 2 “Army of No One”
Part 3 “Umbrella Men”
Special Report - Tulsa
All photos and video original content unless otherwise noted.
Lower right: Chicago Joker, Federal documents / Justice.gov
Upper right: MN precinct, Agence France Presse
Upper left: LA Mayor’s residence June 2nd.
Lower Left: Santa Monica May 31st