An increasingly troubled Lane Myers took to livestreaming two times on Thursday to provide his increasingly threatening reaction to Judge D. Douglas Metcalf’s ruling against both his Anti-SLAPP motion and his media requests.
To say that Myers’ reaction was “bad” would do a disservice to the word “bad.” “Poorly” also doesn’t do it justice. Myers’ mess of a reaction, perhaps aided by the staff of the Pima County Adult Detention Center’s refusal to take away his ability to livestream while in jail, could be characterized as “unhinged” at best and “complete lunacy for attention at worst.”
Myers and sidekick Josh Gray seemed starved for attention on the multiple livestreams and bewildered by the lack of attention they’re receiving for Myers’ increasingly outrageous actions. Myers himself commented in one of his livestreams that he was the talk of the town, but nobody in the press would touch his case.
At the start of the day, Myers promised that today’s hearing with Judge D. Douglas Metcalf would become ugly as all he planned to say to the judge was, “information on a government website is not personal information.”
The line was made in response to Metcalf describing Myers knowingly distributing his victim’s name and contact information by displaying that information on a government run website along with instructions to harass his victim.
Myers claims innocence as the information could be found by anyone, and sharing “public information” itself is not a crime and that since the woman is a public employee, she can be subjected to harassment as part of her job.
He directly distributed Metcalf’s phone number and ordered his “shareholders” to brigade Judge Metcalf with the same message. He instructed his fans to target others while on the livestream and indicated that the targeted harassment would only end when the subjects of the harassment either quit or removed their information from the website.
Myers promised that he would “roast” Metcalf during the court hearing on Friday for being an “idiot” and a “tyrant” and promised that security would have to drag him out of the courtroom.
That livestream ended as Myers was informed that showers were available, and he opted to take a shower instead of continuing to rant.
On Myers’ second livestream of the day, where he called Gray who then livestreamed the call on Gray’s “This is a Public Service” YouTube channel, things got far darker.
Myers called out his fans to challenge Judge D. Douglas Metcalf’s ruling that no one would be permitted to video record or stream Myers’ Friday hearing. He said that only his true supporters would be willing to get arrested in his name Friday by doing so, but doubted that anyone, including his media representatives, would dare defy the judge’s orders despite Myers’ orders to do so.
He made it clear that he expected his own followers to join him in jail for their actions and to be prosecuted for their belief in him and the first amendment as “information on a government website is not personal information.”
Myers then threatened both Judge D. Douglas Metcalf and prosecutor Rachel Stiles that they had until 5PM local time on Friday April 4, 2025, to remove all charges against him or else face having to take the defense of their charges against him all the way to the Arizona State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.
He promised that he would release all the phone calls he’s had with federal prosecutors, the FBI, police officers and anyone else he’s been in contact with. Then he asserted that his wife was going to meet with the ASU Foundation, which is dedicated to free speech, and was willing to run his YouTube channel on his behalf while he was imprisoned.
The jailed YouTuber laughed at the thought of how he would be in prison for years but still run daily livestreams from his tablet and have the ability to expose judicial corruption from “behind bars.”
Myers dared Pima County prosecutors to file more charges against him, as he claimed more charges only meant that his message was reaching the people as the “whole world” was watching.
He then ordered his fans to double up and triple their calls to Judge D. Douglas Metcalf, calling all hours of the day or night, to protest his decision to deny the Anti-SLAPP motion. He said he needed to find a new lawyer who could appeal the Anti-SLAPP motion denial as Myers was unable to access the jail’s law library or write the appeal himself.
Myers pondered out loud that he could attract the involvement of members of the January 6th rioters, the QA’non Shamon and even President Donald Trump himself. Jumping to his belief that he’d be so popular at the end of the trial that he could easily run for president as again, the world was watching his every move.
Grey’s second broadcast has seen a little over 3,500 views by mid-morning on Friday.
Myers himself raised $365 in new donations on his GiveSendGo account on Thursday. He was followed closely by our own GoFundMe campaign, which took in $325.00 for the day. Michael “Blue Bacon” Pierattini’s campaign to fight Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s lawsuit took in a surprise $100.00 and SeanPaul “Long Island Audit” Reyes’ Support the Fight Against Tyranny & Corruption campaign took in $10.00.
The Lane Myers drama is set to continue with a hearing at 5PM Eastern time in front of Judge D. Douglas Metcalf this afternoon, with Myers promising that “information on a government website is not personal information” will be the centerpiece of his defense.
