Jose “Chilly” DeCastro had a rare guest for his Tuesday night livestream as the YouTuber known as First Amendment Protection Agency joined him for the nearly two-hour livestream.
The pair were promoting the channel of a first amendment auditor known as First Amendment Advocate, who is a 15-year-old boy from Massachusetts, who was recently detained by police while on an audit.
In the footage uploaded by First Amendment Advocate and shared by DeCastro, the teenager attempts to audit the outside of a bank when staff at the bank call the police.
The youngster followed all of the guidelines as presented by DeCastro and First Amendment Protection Agency. He remained calm when the police arrived, announced he was on a first amendment audit, then tried to stay calm with the police explained he couldn’t be standing in the middle of the road filming.
DeCastro and First Amendment Protection Agency both disagreed with the police, claiming it was a universal law that where there is no sidewalk provided the road is considered a public easement and the child was within his rights to film from the easement.
The video was abruptly cut off when the child announced that he was detained. He provided no updates as to if he was arrested or otherwise charged with a crime. The officer presumably detained him until his parents were called and picked him up from the scene, corresponding to what the police explained their policy was when dealing with minors.
Again, the older auditors declared that the police were wrong and that the 15-year-old had the same rights as an adult. They encouraged him to get in touch with an attorney and to sue the police for the detainment as a federal civil rights case.
First Amendment Protection Agency then pledged that he would go to the bank later this week to replicate the boy’s audit. DeCastro offered him the use of his lawyer friend in the Massachusetts area and implied that he would soon be using that friend to make a new filing of his own.
First Amendment Protection Agency and DeCastro directed DeCastro’s one hundred and twenty viewers to First Amendment Advocate’s YouTube channel and managed to double the subscribers to the channel during his two-hour broadcast.
DeCastro announced that despite rumors he and his dog Charlie do not live in his studio. He then cut the livestream short as he said he needed to go get Charlie from the vet as Charlie is being treated for an inflamed pancreas and deathly ill.
