ZeroDarkTony is live [ZeroDarkTony] / October 29, 2026 / YouTube / l4qHHv9GIQ0
D’Amato also urged third parties to file hate crime complaints against the same rival.
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, detailed a step-by-step legal pressure campaign against a rival, Scott Hochstetter, during an October 29, 2026 YouTube livestream. D’Amato stated he was attending or preparing to attend a civil court penalty phase hearing and described plans to file a police report afterward, route it to the district attorney, and notify the rival’s bondsman. He also claimed to possess screenshots showing the rival had attempted to locate his home address.
“Once I Get a Police Report, I’m Sending It to the District Attorney”
D’Amato stated on stream that a detective was already familiar with his rival and described the detective’s role as central to the bond-revocation effort. “A detective could have his bond pulled in a fucking heartbeat,” D’Amato said, adding: “Once I get a police report, I’m sending it to the district attorney, and I’m gonna have the detective reach out to the DA and pull this fucking cunt’s bond.”
He said he would also need to identify the bondsman in order to send that party a copy of the report. The rival in question is Scott Hochstetter, known online as DOA, who streams on YouTube at @thelordofthegadflies. D’Amato claimed Hochstetter had attempted to find his address, saying, “I got screenshots of him trying to find my address… He’s dumb as shit.” D’Amato also stated Hochstetter was already facing an assault with a deadly weapon charge and said any new violation would put his bond at risk: “If he catches another case on bond, his bond is over.”
D’Amato is one of 37 defendants in Hochstetter v. Gomez, a federal civil rights suit filed by Scientology protester Scott Hochstetter. Under California law, the suit accuses D’Amato of encouraging police reports against Hochstetter and offering money for his arrest and for slashing his tires. None of the allegations has been tested in court. Hochstetter has not yet served D’Amato according to the court record.
D’Amato then addressed viewers he identified as Matt and JLynn, two people he said he did not like but who he claimed were also being targeted by the same rival. He suggested they pursue hate crime complaints: “They should look into hate crimes. They should look into hate crimes with their local police because that is targeting somebody for their religion.” He framed this as advice, not a directive, saying, “That’s what I suggest they do, if they want some remedy.”
Exhibit A
D’Amato states his post-court plan in full: “Once I get a police report, I’m sending it to the district attorney, and I’m gonna have the detective reach out to the DA and pull this fucking cunt’s bond, this doxing piece of shit who thinks he could just run roughshod over people and have no consequences.” He also says, describing a hoped-for outcome: “My hope is that by the end of today, this fucking guy gets a notice from the DA that they need him to come into court.”
Timestamps: 00:02:52 – 00:15:25 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato describes a coordinated sequence: police report, DA referral, bondsman notification, and detective follow-through, framed as a response to claimed doxxing. He also speculates aloud about prison violence, saying of Hochstetter, “When he’s getting his face caved in, when he’s incarcerated, maybe he’ll learn a lesson and those guys can teach it to him.” That remark is not directed at any audience member as an instruction; D’Amato presents it as speculation about what incarceration may bring.
Exhibit B
D’Amato relays what he says the judge presiding over the bond-related hearing ordered, then turns to his audience: “I don’t usually condone this, but Becky and crew, I mean, if y’all saw the video, if you haven’t already forwarded those videos to the prosecutor, then get on it, because that’s what should happen.”
Timestamps: 00:20:26 – 00:23:58 | Watch with a free account
D’Amato claims a judge issued a no-online-harassment and no-alternate-accounts order, though he provides no court record during the stream. He tells viewers to send videos to the prosecutor but adds that he won’t email them himself.
We hear him asking specific audience members to do so, rather than giving a general instruction to everyone in chat. This mirrors behavior his main supporter, Sticker Chick, accused D’Amato’s critics of, linking it to “Suicide Trolling” D’Amato without offering any evidence.
Together, both clips establish D’Amato’s stated intent, on the October 29, 2026 broadcast, to pursue parallel tracks against Hochstetter: a police report routed through a detective to the DA, a bondsman notification, and encouraged third-party submissions to the prosecutor.
Sources
- Original YouTube Video
- Full SRT Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
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- Full Chat Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Date: 2026-10-29
- Stream ID: YOUTUBE · l4qHHv9GIQ0
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