Rock Creek deer killers disappear after possible intercepted activist phone calls, emails

On the 11th of December, I found roads in Rock Creek Park barricaded in preparation for "Deer Removal" or the shooting of deer by USDA "wildlife Services" at about 6:30PM. By 10:30 PM, after a flury of phone calls in an effort to organize a hasty street protest, all the barricades were gone and the killers nowhere to be found.

Now for the unsettling part: the only possible deterrent would have been either from monitoring activist communications or the fact that I personally found and yelled at some of the barricade set-up crews at 6:30PM. I was at the Activist Awards most of the evening, found that it was impossible to get enough bandwidth on a mobile hotspot to connect to my email via https-or to start Tor to bypass any blocking. I suspect a "stingray" was involved, as those police spying devices, now known to be common in DC only support 2G connections. They may also be configurable to block communications they can't monitor. There would be a hell of a lot of motivation on the part of police part to set up a Stingray near a place with so many activist phones.

If they monitored either the phone calls or the emails, they knew animal rights activists would be "hunting" them, looking to set up protests, but unless a protest came together in one spot that meant activists prowling
the roads and maybe the woods looking for them. On Tuesday the barricades closest to the protest were removed and the NPS seemed to back away from protesters. Without knowing what protesters were planning the only way to dodge them was not to kill deer.

It seems when mass killers thinking themselves hunters find themselves the hunted instead they scurry for cover like the roaches when the lights are turned on.