The second night of Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s coverage of the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles was largely uneventful as DeCastro meandered through the crowd, avoiding chances for injury, and inadvertently found himself on multiple news feeds belonging to “state run” media.
DeCastro started the night with what some critics felt was a staged event, as an older couple approached the YouTuber. The woman said that DeCastro was an “alpha” multiple times and identified herself a person involved in the J6 riots, who served time but was pardoned by President Trump earlier in the year.
She attempted to recruit DeCastro to the right-wing side of supporting the police, as she said that it was a shame that all the illegals were the cause of all the problems. This led to an awkward debate between DeCastro and the woman, with DeCastro eventually blaming homelessness and America’s war on drugs as the real problems that led to the riots.
DeCastro would pose with someone who recognized him and again described himself as a national civil rights leader and “journalist” and described himself as “journaling” on the scene. He continued that “journaling” was a protected activity and he would stoon find himself in the area where the national news journalists had gathered in front of the line of police.
In the first few hours, DeCastro, apparently purposely, ran into CNN reporter Erin Burnett on multiple occasions. His diminutive form walking directly into her shot on multiple occasions, and at one point accidentally walking into her, apologizing and being chastised for interrupting her audio.
DeCastro would return to Burnett on a regular basis throughout the stream, as she seemed to be the biggest nationally known news reporter that he recognized at the event. He again accidentally interjected himself into CNN’s news coverage, as at the time he was loudly telling a friend that he was too important to take their call as he was at the riots.
Monday night saw DeCastro apparently learn from being injured multiple times on Sunday night. While he did not wear heavier clothing or one of his self-printed “press” hoodies, he seemed to avoid lingering at the front lines and making himself a target of police when violence erupted.
Police were also more subdued, at least in DeCastro’s areas of focus, Monday night, and seemed to be more open to engage with the YouTuber than the night before. At one point, DeCastro targeted multiple police officers who would talk to him and attempted to engage in conversations with the officers rather than hurl insults at them or attempt to get them to quit the police force.
At one point, DeCastro described police as humans and said it was wrong to say that their families were ashamed at their actions. It was a stark departure from his previous statements that he wished all police burnt in hell and that he pleasured himself whenever he heard that a police officer had died.
DeCastro took advantage of his largely captive audience, as most of the other YouTubers who had covered Sunday night’s riots did not return for the second night. Katie Kidman, who had a harrowing escape from violence Sunday night and needed essentially a police escort to her van in order to escape the scene, did not return for a second night.
In what some called problematic for DeCastro, he continued to attempt to engage with women to take part in his “simulation” events later in the week. While polite in his approach, his pitch that he needed “more women” to engage in his filming at his private studio to be harassed by a pretend police officer drew criticism.
The YouTuber has fashioned a car simulation at this studio in downtown Los Angeles and described the “simulation” as a two-hour event where he simulates a traffic stop. The participant is apparently berated by a simulated police officer in an unscripted fashion before DeCastro steps in and teaches the participant the proper way to handle the interaction.
DeCastro said he was ending his coverage early Monday night as the sun was beginning to set. He said it was too dangerous to remain in the area, despite having “5,000” viewers engaged in his third livestream. He plugged his trifold and cop card products before calling it a night.
National exposure apparently did nothing for sales of his Constitution HQ board game, as the counter remains stuck at 9999 on his DeleteLawZ.com site after two days of coverage of the riots.
His GoFundMe campaign has also seen no activity based on his increased national exposure. His campaign seeking help with the purchase of a year’s subscription to “Westlaw A.I” remained stagnant in Tuesday’s reporting.
The entire market put up goose eggs in Tuesday’s reporting, with no new donations recorded across the board for the second straight day.
DeCastro has declared he will go live from the L.A. riots each night until the situation resolves itself.
