Jose “Chille” DeCastro returned to Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles late Saturday night to proposition police officers to abandon their use of “torture cuffs” and be the first champions of his cause to replace cuffs with his “digital detainment” system.
Looking older than his 50 years should make him look, DeCastro sauntered up to a police officer who was watching his partner handle two men during a traffic stop on Hollywood Boulevard. DeCastro exchanged idle chit chat with the man, asking him about his motivation for joining the police and his expectations from the job.
The officer said that he grew up watching police shows on TV and thought being a cop would bring him the same sort of experiences. Alas, he said that most police work is administrative or simple tickets, with none of the excitement he expected from what he had seen in media.
DeCastro pounced on the dullness presented by the man, and began his rehearsed approach, telling the man that he could provide an alternative, with his ideas on digital detainment. When the man seemed to take an interest in his pitch, DeCastro pressed further, making eye contact with the police officer and suggesting that the officer take the idea to his superiors.
When the officer declined the idea, DeCastro pressed on, telling the man that it only takes one man to stand up to oppression and that he could be the one person to end oppression for everyone. The officer again rebuffed DeCastro, saying that DeCastro should present his ideas at a public forum, a city council, or to try to approach high ups within the police force.
His heart sinking, DeCastro engaged with the two men who were pulled over by the police officers after the men asked DeCastro to stop filming. He explained that he had the right to film anything he could see in public, and they should be thanking him for documenting what was going on in case the police were to act badly.
Returning to the police officer, DeCastro’s hopes sank again as the officer admitted he was only listening to DeCastro’s ideas to be nice and that he wouldn’t be acting on DeCastro’s ideas. Crushed, DeCastro turned his attention to the other police officer, who also rebuffed him, a bit more forcefully.
DeCastro got the business card of the first police officer before retreating from the scene, and promising that he’d do his next live for the night on his DLZ Clips channel, which he would be relying more on now that his main channel was “dying.” He never followed up on the video.
Saturday’s action did nothing to spark the market as DeCastro saw no new donations to his various GoFundMes, continuing the pattern of apathy from the market to anything involving DeCastro.
Our own GoFundMe took the day with a $35.00 take.
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