In what has been called by many a desperate cry for attention, Jose “Chille” DeCastro livestreamed from downtown Las Vegas early Monday morning, attempting to “punk” police officers, running in the street, spinning in circles, forgetting his car and, of course, calling it the best stream ever.
The stream began innocently enough with DeCastro across the street from a DUI stop where police were doing field sobriety tests with a black man. DeCastro watched as the police brought the man over to have his blood drawn in a police vehicle before calling an officer over to appear on camera.
The officer, identifying himself as Lieutenant Ficklin, politely answered DeCastro’s questions about the process of a DUI stop along with the policies backing the legality of such stops.
He calmly explained that Nevada gave up on DUI checkpoints as they were like fishing expeditions. Nevada replaced them with better training to identify possible drivers driving under the influence.
DeCastro mockingly asked if the officer could tell he was high from doing a test of his eyes. The officer explained that he couldn’t determine from one test, but from the roadside testing as a whole.
Moving on, DeCastro asked about the charges that he’s facing from Friday night and pretended to be concerned about their outcome. The officer explained that he was more than likely not going to get any jail time for the charge of walking in the street but was unsure about the obstruction charges.
On the obstruction charged, DeCastro unsuccessfully tried to goad the officer into agreeing that he would not give his social security number to a police officer during the booking process.
DeCastro’s story changed from a previous tale that it was a female officer who asked him for his social security number during the booking process. Now, it was his arresting officer who asked for it, before catching himself and reverting to the previous story.
Lieutenant Ficklin left DeCastro to go answer a call and DeCastro decided to follow the police cars down the street. Running full speed and screaming at pedestrians to “make a hole” to get out his way.
DeCastro ran for roughly a minute but claimed it was several minutes while he huffed and puffed and observers felt like he was going to have a heart attack on camera.
The YouTuber eventually gained his breath, interacting with the subject of the traffic stop. That person was a current prison guard on a motorcycle who didn’t want to be recorded. DeCastro assured the man that he was there for his protection and that the man had no choice but to be on camera.
That man would eventually leave, along with the Lieutenant and other officers, leaving DeCastro alone to drop his “nice guy” façade and reveal that he was pretending to be nice. He was overjoyed that he had played the officer into proving that Americans lived in a police state.
Addressing his viewers, DeCastro proclaimed that the live stream was the greatest livestream in the history of his channel. Adding to those fans that the officer would “go viral” and that it was definitive proof of everything that DeCastro ever wanted and needed to prove about the dirty coppers.
DeCastro’s eyes were pinpricks as he began to walk around in search of his car. He said that he wasn’t paying attention as he ran earlier, despite running a few blocks in a straight line from where he had been.
He began to interact with other people on the street, jumping into the street at points, walking against the light while screaming he was “free.” In the most bizarre portion of the strange video, DeCastro began to spin in circles while shouting that he was free in an apparent statement to the world.
Eventually he would come down enough to remember where his car was and end the livestream.
Footage of the live stream is still available on his YouTube channel. The Lieutenant has yet to go viral as of press time.
During the stream, DeCastro again announced that he would be stating who his lawyer was to fight the two charges he picked up on Friday night. He also begged his fans to buy his merchandise instead of setting up a dedicated GoFundMe campaign.
He would later announce that he would likely do a GoFundMe later this week but had not as of the end of the livestream.
DeCastro’s other active GoFundMe campaign did not benefit from the overnight exposure or his pleas for funding. Our own On-Going Expenses campaign won Monday with a $500.00 donation. It was followed by a $5.00 donation to Lane Myers’ GiveSendGo campaign.
No other campaigns that we follow received donations for Monday.
