2024-09-14 – Apex Legends ｜ HUNTING DOA, Stalkers Cry More, LARAFM KNEW / September 14, 2024 / Odysee / 559de59fed64e82bfa61b204da800b4d2272352b
D’Amato also warned creators using his content that he would file coordinated copyright strikes to terminate their channels.
For two hours on September 14, 2024, Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., broadcasting to his audience as “ZeroDarkTony,” ran a live operation from his desk. He had truckers watching the highways of three states. He said he had a friend at the Pentagon. He said he had contacts inside casino security in Las Vegas who could run a stranger’s face through facial recognition and call him the moment it hit. He put a price on a man’s arrest, live, on air, and asked his chat to help him find a couple hiding somewhere off the Strip by studying the tile in a bathroom selfie.
The stream was titled “HUNTING DOA, Stalkers Cry More, LARAFM KNEW.” Read cold, it sounds like it is about one man on the run. It is not. Pull every name D’Amato says that night and lay them next to each other, and a different shape appears. Almost everyone he hunts, mocks, or threatens that night was standing in the same place at some point before any of this started: on a sidewalk in Hollywood, outside the Church of Scientology’s testing and recruitment center. Scott Hochstetter, known on stream as “DOA.” William Gude, who publishes as StreetsLA, Film the Police LA, and Scientology Audit. Mindy Willens. Jessica Palmadessa. Chris and Aja. And [S.], the minor at the center of D’Amato’s ongoing criminal case.
They were protestors. That is the connective tissue running under two hours of threats, and it does not show up anywhere in the stream itself, because D’Amato never says it. He does not need to. He just keeps circling back to the same half-dozen people as if their only connection to each other is him.
Aaron Smith Levin, a former Scientologist who streams as “Growing Up In Scientology,” wasn’t part of the original Hollywood Blvd demonstrations. He has since joined those protests himself, and taken the fight to Clearwater, Florida, the Church’s spiritual headquarters. He has no documented connection to [S.]’s case. D’Amato’s claim that Levin will be compelled to testify when it goes to trial doesn’t hold up. By D’Amato’s own account, on a separate stream, Levin turned up in Los Angeles during one of the criminal proceedings and went to the courthouse. His testimony was never needed; he was never a witness to anything. What D’Amato leaves out is what happened when Levin tried to interview him there: he ran.
The one name that does sit entirely outside the group is Dana. D’Amato talks about her in the same breath as William Gude, as though she belongs to the same conspiracy. She is his own ex.
“I’m Gonna Get Some Images of DOA to Some of My Security Buddies in Vegas”
The bounty is the clearest single act in the broadcast. D’Amato put a price on Hochstetter’s arrest: $500 if it happened in Nevada or Utah, $250 if it happened in California, open to anyone, including, he said, one of Hochstetter’s own friends. He described texting cousins and contacts in Las Vegas, claimed friends in casino security with access to facial recognition systems, and said he planned to reach out to Vegas Metro detectives he called personal acquaintances. He vowed to call law enforcement on Hochstetter “every fucking day” and asked his audience to call Vegas Metro directly with the RV park’s location and the vehicle’s description. He framed all of it as a public safety report, made in his self-described capacity as a mandated reporter who believed Hochstetter was carrying drugs.
Exhibit A: The Warning Shot
D’Amato warns creators by name that he will file coordinated copyright strikes: “if you fucking don’t do it right I’m gonna strike your channel okay… and if I see you doing something and I see you build up three or four of them I’m gonna strike them all at the same time and then your channel’s gone,” adding, “even if it’s on the edge and I don’t like you, I could strike your fucking channel anyway.”
Timestamps: 00:04:43 – 00:12:12 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato states he intends to file strikes not only on non-transformative uses but also on content he personally dislikes, even when it may qualify as fair use. He names the three targets directly: Jessica Palmadessa, Mindy Willens, and William Gude, three members of the Hollywood protest circle, as people who have “tried to end” his channel. The stated rationale for selective enforcement is personal animosity toward specific creators, which he acknowledges explicitly.
Exhibit B: Waking the Dragon
Addressing critics after describing a street encounter with a third party, D’Amato says, “you have just woken the dragon… and DOA we’re gonna find you, you fucking bet we are… and then we’re gonna call the police,” adding that his stated goal is to have DOA go live so his location can be identified.
Timestamps: 00:12:52 – 00:18:41 | Watch with a free account
The clip establishes D’Amato’s stated intention to locate DOA and contact law enforcement, framed as protective but paired with language about finding him before he can reach D’Amato’s property. The street encounter he describes just before this is with Chris, another member of the protest circle he calls “confident Chris” while describing the satisfaction of watching him flinch. William and Mindy Willens are named again here as people whose channels YouTube is reportedly already watching for coordinated reporting. And in a single aside, easy to miss, comes the first sign that Dana is filed differently from the rest: “I don’t really have a problem with anybody, not even Dana.”
Exhibit C: Two Men Who Are Not Alike
D’Amato states his plan to call police on DOA repeatedly: “we are going to call on DOA every time we see him… I’m calling the cops on him, I’m calling the cops every fucking day on him,” and says he intends to have DOA arrested while asserting that William has no credibility with law enforcement.
Timestamps: 00:19:19 – 00:24:08 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato also states in this segment that Aaron Smith Levin will be compelled to testify in a future proceeding and that [S.’s mother] will be served with a restraining order. He says it with the confidence of settled fact. It is not: Levin has no documented connection to the [S.] case beyond D’Amato’s own broadcasts asserting one. [S.’s mother], unlike Levin, belongs naturally in this exhibit. She is [S.]’s mother, and the restraining-order threat against her ties directly to the [S.] litigation rather than to any invented connection.
Exhibit D: The Word He Won’t Say
D’Amato describes his belief that critics fell for a repeated provocation, saying “I just have to fucking say one word, and I can send a ripple through that community that they will never forget… I got three more things lined up that are just going to fucking buzzsaw their fucking brains.” The word is “cum towels,” shorthand for a harassment tactic he has used before: printing the faces of his targets’ close, often deceased, family members onto towels and doormats and threatening to sell them.
Timestamps: 00:44:51 – 00:46:51 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato frames the exchange as a strategic campaign rather than reactive behavior, stating the opposition “think they won the World Series” while he characterizes his own position as just getting started. The clip documents his stated intent to continue escalating engagement with critics.
Exhibit E: Two Threats, One Breath
Directing statements at Dana and William, D’Amato says, “if either one of you darken my door, I will blank you right where you stand,” then adds, “put your hands on me and then we’ll see what’s up… William come and touch my fucking shoulder with your pinky, okay, and that pinky will likely end up in your ass.” He tells them both that they are lucky “this isn’t 10 years ago,” a line that reads as a veiled reference to the corporal-injury conviction, stemming from an assault on a woman, that put him behind bars around that period
Timestamps: 00:47:32 – 00:50:55 | Watch with a free account
The statements are conditional on physical approach, and D’Amato immediately follows by saying “I have not activated” and “I refuse,” characterizing his current posture as restrained. The clip establishes the conditional framing alongside the stated physical response language, and it is the clearest moment in the broadcast where his two separate grievances, the protest circle and his own ex, are threatened side by side as if they were one and the same.
Exhibit F: The Bounty
D’Amato announces a bounty and describes plans to use casino facial recognition technology to locate DOA, saying “I’m going to get some images of DOA to some of my security buddies in Vegas, and there’s a reward… they don’t even have to let anybody know that they hit the facial recognition, they could just call on him.” He also states he has contacts at Vegas Metro and describes placing DOA’s vehicle plates and description with truckers and highway patrol agencies across multiple states.
Timestamps: 01:01:47 – 01:12:41 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato states his public safety justification throughout: he claims to be a mandated reporter who “truly in good faith” believes DOA is transporting drugs and is dangerous. He frames the bounty and the law enforcement contacts as consistent with that belief, though he also states the bounty is personal and says, “I’m like the U.S. Marshals motherfucker, I’ll find you.” In the same segment he brings up “this [S.] issue” and an upcoming court date, and accuses William of trying to get him jailed despite knowing that date exists, so that the manhunt for Hochstetter and the litigation with [S.], two different matters involving different people, arrive in the same breath.
Exhibit G: Reading a Bathroom Tile
After a viewer reports a sighting, D’Amato says, “I’m sure someone’s put a tracker under his RV… there’s no way that someone like that doesn’t have somebody,” then directs the stream to analyze a photo posted by LaraFM to identify the casino location, saying “let’s blow up that picture… let’s open up that picture.”
Timestamps: 01:14:38 – 01:19:27 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato states the sighting will be posted to Twitter and asks viewers to help identify the specific casino from bathroom fixtures visible in the image. The clip documents a live crowd-sourced location analysis using a photo LaraFM had posted, run in real time by dozens of viewers competing to be the one who places her first.
Exhibit H: The Instrument of My Destruction
D’Amato states a conditional threat regarding William, saying “if William goes near my mother, that William will become the instrument of my destruction… William and I will be going on a vacation for a couple days together to somewhere,” while also saying he has not gone near William’s mother and frames his own conduct as non-threatening by comparison.
Timestamps: 01:29:37 – 01:32:51 | Watch with a free account
The statement is explicitly conditional on William approaching D’Amato’s mother first. D’Amato also states in this segment that flyers William is allegedly distributing “literally compromise my safety,” framing his own statements as defensive responses to that conduct.
Exhibit I: The Address
D’Amato states he has shared William’s residential address publicly, saying “we have his address, you know, and it’s disgusting,” adding that he posted it to Twitter. He then states, “it’s merely for legal reasons so that I can, you know, notify the police and put that on his, you know, reports that I’m making and some of the filings that will be in the court.”
Timestamps: 01:33:41 – 01:36:59 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato states the address is publicly listed on Redfin and cites that as justification, while simultaneously describing it in derogatory terms for the audience. He states the legal filing rationale in the same breath as sharing it publicly on social media, and the clip preserves both the stated purpose and the public broadcast context. The passage leading into it accuses William’s son of running credit card scams, calling it “a family business,” so the address arrives as the capstone to an unrelated allegation rather than as a standalone disclosure.
Exhibit J: Calling in the Cavalry
D’Amato asks viewers for DOA’s and LaraFM’s vehicle make, model, and plate, saying “Cali Boy, do you have the make, model, and plate for the vehicle? Because we can call the RV park and tell them there’s drugs in that vehicle.” He also directs viewers to contact the Good Wolf venue’s legal representation to cancel LaraFM’s show: “we’re going to be in touch with the club… we’ll just go right to their legal.”
Timestamps: 01:37:46 – 01:49:09 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato states throughout that his suspicion of drug possession is genuine and that contacting law enforcement is a public safety matter. He also states, “now it’s my turn,” and frames the coordinated contact campaign as a deliberate escalation in direct response to what he characterizes as years of targeting. William surfaces only once here, in passing, as someone losing public support, and Dana resurfaces a final time too, mocked alongside him over a mental health facility reference, still standing, to the last minute of the broadcast, next to a group she was never actually part of.
What the Names Add Up To
Across the ten documented segments, D’Amato announces a cash bounty for location information on a named individual, publicly shares a second named individual’s home address, solicits vehicle identification from his audience, and describes plans to contact law enforcement, venue attorneys, and casino security contacts, all within a single broadcast, with a court date he references for October 2024 pending at the time of recording.
Strip away the bravado and the two hours resolve into two stories that D’Amato tells as one. The first is about a group of Scientology protestors, Hochstetter, Gude, Willens, Palmadessa, Chris, and Aja, who once stood together outside a recruitment center on Hollywood Boulevard and now stand, in D’Amato’s telling, as a single conspiracy against him. [S.], and by extension his mother, belong to that same story, and Aaron Smith Levin has drifted into its orbit through his own activism even if D’Amato’s specific claims about him have not held up. The second story is smaller and has nothing to do with any of it: an ex-girlfriend, invoked by name because a single unified enemy is a better story than two unrelated grudges. D’Amato tells it as one hunt. It was never that simple, and the transcript, read carefully, is the proof.
Sources
- Full SRT Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Full Text Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Date: 2024-09-14
- Stream ID: ODYSEE · 559de59fed64e82bfa61b204da800b4d2272352b
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