Friday seemed to be a wonderful day to be Jose “Chille” DeCastro as he livestreamed to over 700 of his fans with the announcement that the prototype for his Constitutional HQ board game had finished printing and that he was about to sue YouTuber Dale “Lackluster” Hiller for defamation.
DeCastro had three packets of cards in hand as he started his livestream, making the announcement that the stream would be the last anti-police video he’ll be making for quite some time as he would now be focusing on teaching his board game, which is still in prototype form.
The YouTuber said that he had about “five dozen” pre-orders, despite his website’s counter reading seven preorders, and that he was talking to financers to get the $150,000.00 he says he needed to do a single 10,000-unit run of the first printing of the game.
He had no estimate for the release of the game but praised himself for the tremendous accomplishment of taking the game to a prototype stage. He continued to praise himself for the remainder of the broadcast as his board game announcement was now accompanied by a second announcement featuring his replacement for handcuffs.
DeCastro had previously announced that he had invented a replacement for handcuffs that allowed someone being detained by police to have their arms in a position in the front of their body rather than the traditional method of being cuffed behind their back.
The YouTuber claims that his device would cut down on the pain felt by a detainee as a humane alternative to the so called “torture cuffs” currently used by police forces. He has long opposed the use of handcuffs by police as he says they’re too restrictive and too painful when applied.
DeCastro claimed to have years of martial arts training and came up with the idea for his alternative device while incarcerated in the Clark County, Nevada, Jail last year. In his announcement, he assured that police or security officers using the device would be safe with detainees having free use of their arms while in the device.
According to DeCastro, he sent off a video on Friday detailing his instructions for the device to someone who will produce a prototype of the device. DeCastro is seeking to patent the device and make it available to police forces across America.
DeCastro also returned to an old threat on his Friday livestream as he announced that unless Dale “Lackluster” Hiller “retracts” statements against him, he would be suing Hiller for defamation before the “statue of limitations runs out next week.”
In the past, DeCastro has alluded to problems with Hiller and has previously threatened to sue Hiller. However, he never actually went forward with a defamation case against the YouTuber.
In Friday’s announcement, DeCastro simultaneously gave Hiller an undisclosed deadline to retract statements about DeCastro but then claimed that Hiller would not get a chance to retract the statements before DeCastro would file suit anyway.
Finally, DeCastro ignored developments in his California Superior Court based lawsuit against Kate Peter, Team Skeptic, Daniel Clement and Michael “Blue Bacon” Pierattini as Pierattini’s attorney, R. Paul Katrinak filed new opposition to DeCastro’s second attempt to have the lawsuit dismissed.
DeCastro recently had a second attempt to have the lawsuit dismissed rejected by the Court as he failed to properly fill out his own name and the name of the defendants on the submitted form.
The filing by DeCastro was part of DeCastro’s attempt to “reset” the case to allow it to be refiled at another time as he felt that his side had not been heard in the lawsuit.
Katrinak’s extended reply disputes DeCastro’s statements and again points out that DeCastro is currently ignoring multiple court orders in the case. The attorney wrote:
Plaintiff is in violation following five court orders:
- The Order on the Motion to Compel Plaintiff’s Responses to Defendant’s Special Interrogatories has not been complied with;
- The Order on the Motion to Compel Plaintiff’s Responses to Defendant’s Form Interrogatories has not been complied with;
- The Order on the Motion to Compel Plaintiff’s Responses to Defendant’s Requests for Production of Documents has not been complied with;
- The Order on the Motion to Compel Plaintiff’s Responses to Defendant’s Requests for Admission has not been complied with; and
- The Order on Plaintiff’s Reconsideration of Sanctions and he has not paid the original sanctions or the sanction for that motion.
Katrinak further points out that DeCastro has yet to pay over $10,000.00 in sanctions imposed by Judge H. Jay Ford III in the lawsuit. The attorney also objects to the fact that DeCastro has able to delay a hearing on terminating sanctions multiple times by filing last minute frivolous motions including his now multiple attempts to voluntarily dismiss the lawsuit.
The next hearing in the two-year old case is scheduled for May 29, 2025.
