Jose “Chille” DeCastro returned to live streaming Monday night with a 90-minute live stream congratulating himself for beating obstruction charges in Las Vegas and announcing that he’ll abolish most vehicle safety laws when he is elected Governor.
DeCastro has traveled through Arizona, California and Nevada in the past few days and has been concentrating on family and friends as he deals with fixing his broken teeth and the PTSD he claims he has from his time in jail.
The YouTuber explained that the entire time he was in jail, he would tailor his sleeping patterns to reflect which guards were on duty, and if an “evil” guard was on a shift, he’d force himself to sleep through the shift and then be up all night if a “good” guard was working the next shift.
He said he suffered intentional trauma and distress while in jail as he knew that he had a second trial coming for the recently dropped obstruction charge and he faced a year or two years in jail since it would have been his second conviction.
The YouTuber dramatically blamed Justice of the Peace Anne Zimmerman for inflicting emotional damage on him by wrongly sentencing him to jail on “trumped up charges.” Turning his attention to Zimmerman, he said he’d soon launch his lawsuit and media campaign against her to make her pay for improperly forcing him into jail.
DeCastro dramatically paused after describing his PTSD and went into a full-throated rage about police and policing in America. He promised that when he was elected to be “the executive” of an unnamed state in the future, he would eliminate seat belt laws (“seat belts are between a person and their insurance company”), laws regulating turn signals and lights on cars, and proof of registration.
He then turned his attention to police officers, briefly showing the start to a news story where police pledged more training after losing a lawsuit. DeCastro shouting that “more training” wasn’t enough, police officers need to be fired and having criminal charges made against them if they act improperly on the job.
The YouTuber smiled as he said that now that the second obstruction charges were dropped, it would be “easier” to strip qualified immunity the police officers who arrested him in the case and sue them for their immoral actions.
DeCastro did not address the growing backlash against him for dropping his claims of being a constitutional law scholar and instead, crowd funding for lawyers to take on his multitude of criminal and civil lawsuits.
The YouTuber has made his entire brand around pitching the idea of defendants going pro se, without needing lawyers, and relying on his teachings to get them through lawsuits. At one point, he said he was selling his own “legal documents” that could apparently be substituted for the work of a lawyer. The sales allegedly made a good part of his income.
Now that he has embraced using his fans’ money to pay for his expensive lawyer instead of showing his skills as a “constitutional law scholar,” there’s been an observed growing backlash against him for selling his products aimed at self-representation.
DeCastro did address the services of Joshua Tomsheck, the lawyer who was able to get the obstruction charges dismissed. Addressing calls to refund the money of donors since he crowd sourced and no longer needed the money, he said that while he may have had money left on Tomsheck’s retainer, there was “no way” to get the money back from the lawyer.
Announcing a change in his free trifold program, he stated that when he sends out “free” physical copies of his trifold, they are no longer professionally printed physical copies of the product. Instead, he substitutes a photocopy of the trifold “in black and white,” which contains the same information, just in a “destructible” form.
He ended by repeating his announcement that the TeamDLZ website would soon be launched. While not defining the purpose of the website, he did mention that he would be uploading exclusive videos to the site for his fans to track his travels across America.
