Sweers has already been warned not to continue harassing people but the douchebag with the punchable face doesn't seem to listen.
Word to the wise, Zach, take the prosecutor's advice and piss off. You've already been sued twice and I've already beaten a state senator in court.
https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2019/06/prosecutor-warning-to-video-vigilante-still-stands-from-2016.html
Prosecutor: Warning to video vigilante still stands from 2016
Updated Jun 12, 2019; Posted Jun 12, 2019
By John Tunison | jtunison@mlive.com
GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- In 2016, a then 23-year-old Zach Sweers was advised by authorities to stop doing “sting” operations on men who responded to his online persona as an underage teen girl.
He did, at least judging by his social media pages at the time. Two men he caught on video had sued him.
Now three years later, he’s back to posting videos akin to the popular “To Catch A Predator” show.
The actions of viral video vigilantes put the public in danger, according to law enforcement.
Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker learned two week ago that Sweers had begun posting new videos to his Anxiety War web site.
In some, they show him confronting men who came to see him, thinking he was the teen girl they chatted with online. In one, he picks up a man’s dropped car keys and wrestles with the man over them.
Becker on Wednesday, June 12 joined the state Attorney General’s office and state police in warning against such video vigilantism.
“It’s dangerous to himself and it’s dangerous to the public,” Becker said.
In 2016 it was Becker’s then-boss, retired Kent County Prosecutor William Forsyth, who issued a plea for Sweers to stop and told him that prosecutors would no longer look into cases he investigated.
Becker said Forsyth’s message still applies today.
“We’re not going to work with him. We want nothing to do with him,” Becker said.
He said Sweers’ motive for the videos, in his opinion, is self-serving.
Sweers appears to have started posting new videos in early April. The introduction to the first video starts with the words “Anxiety War 2.0” and “I’m Back.”
Kent County Prosecutor William Forsyth wrote a May 4 letter to Zach Sweers
He responded to an email for comment Wednesday, but only to say that he planned to issue a video response to the Attorney General’s warning.
“There is so much more to all of this...," he wrote.
In 2016, prosecutors did charge seven men with accosting a child for immoral purposes based on initial evidence-gathering by Sweers. Those videos already had been made when police learned of them, and they soon asked him to stop.
Two of the men he captured on video ended up suing him and Sweers settled those cases. No details about the settlement were released.
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