“I will, uh… traumatize him for you.” An American Fork officer said it about the man who called 911. The department’s own letters side with the caller: unbecoming, unlawful, “This is false.”
LackLuster, a police accountability channel with 1.5 million subscribers, returned to American Fork on Thursday with the bodycam and the letters a resident told the council about. Its five earlier American Fork videos have passed 2.7 million views. The council votes on the tax rate August 25.
PRIMARY SOURCEThe published video: the 2024 bodycam with burned-in Axon dates and serials, and both findings letters shown on screen, transcribed by this site from the video; the September 10, 2024 council minutes on the state’s public notice siteCORROBORATEDThe footage and the letters match what Greg Hazard told the city’s own meetings on June 9 and August 11, as this site reported before the footage was public
37:58The channel found American Fork through the Lego case and opens the new video there: “It’ll likely be years till we hear anything substantial from the Lego saga.” So it checked in on the police department instead, for the sixth time since May.
The channel’s American Fork series · views as of August 14
| Published | Video | Views |
|---|---|---|
| May 22 | This might be my favorite traffic stop.... EVER | 1,172,000 |
| May 29 | Big Update To This Wild Traffic Stop | 377,000 |
| June 10 | Criminal Charges For Not Answering The Door?!?!?! | 473,000 |
| June 12 | Caught Lying On His Own Dashcam | 232,000 |
| June 18 | Lawsuit Settled - American Fork Police Tackle Innocent Man From Behind | 491,000 |
| August 14 | “I’ll Traumatize Him For You” | 91,000, first evening |
One title needs the record beside it: the June 18 case ended in a stipulated dismissal with no findings and no disclosed payment, as this site reported.
Part one of the new video replays the August 11 tax hearing this site reported: Aaron Booker at the podium, announcing civil rights litigation “utilizing the same attorney as Mr. Benjamin Schneider and others.” Parts two and three are new, and they are Greg Hazard’s. The channel says Booker put it in contact with him after the hearing.
What Hazard told the council first
Hazard is not new to the city’s record. On June 9 he described two encounters with officers to the city council and credited the chief by name: “Chief Paul quickly took ownership,” as this site reported from that meeting. At the August 11 hearing he described the elected side’s response: “I shared how I was victimized with you two months ago, and only Councilman Ryan Hunter reached out to me.” And he said he holds the record: “I received apology letters and ownership from Chief Paul on behalf of the police department in American Fork City. All of this that I have on body cam.”
Three days after the hearing, the bodycam and the letters are public.
The call, March 8, 2024
The first encounter is a 911 call Hazard made from his office property in American Fork, a former bank building. The bodycam carries its own dates: Axon Body 3, serial X60A9171X, March 8, 2024. A woman had parked on the property and twice refused his request to leave. On the footage she describes what she did next herself: she pulled her car in front of the building’s entrance, knocked on the door, circled the building looking for another door, and photographed it, because Hazard had photographed her license plate.
The responding officers told Hazard they would not cite her. One told him he “almost got cited for disorderly conduct… for causing an alarm and being verbally aggressive towards her,” which he disputed, offering his surveillance video. When he asked what he should do about the drug deals and sex he says he finds in that corner of the lot, an officer answered: “Well, those sound like real crimes. Maybe contact the police for those.” It was Hazard who had contacted the police.
Then the officer the channel identifies as Zachary Goodale arrived. By the video’s count, he spent about eight minutes conferring with the other officers on muted microphones. What he did next is on another officer’s camera, at the woman’s window:
“Okay. Well, here’s the deal. I’m sorry that you ran into one of American Fork’s greatest a-holes… We’re not going to hem you up and make you stay here any longer. So, just go enjoy your day. Don’t expect anything to come from this for you.”
The woman, a trauma specialist who told the officers she works with first responders, answered that she had never had anything like this happen: “I feel traumatized by this.” The officer’s reply is now the video’s title:
“Well, if everything keeps going according to plan, I will, uh… traumatize him for you. Okay?”
“Thank you.”
No one was cited.
The parking lot, April 19, 2024
Six weeks later, on a different camera with its own burn-in (Axon Body 3, serial X60AA0270, April 19, 2024), Hazard approached Goodale at the police parking area by the courthouse, where Goodale’s patrol vehicle sat in a marked accessible stall. Hazard, who told him he has two disabled children and carries placards, asked why. The answers, on the bodycam: “Because I am allowed to.” And: “That spot should have never been made a handicap spot in the first place.” The exchange ended with Goodale ordering Hazard off the property: “You need to leave and not return. Your return here will result in you being charged with trespassing.”
The letters
Hazard then met with Chief Cameron Paul, and the meetings produced paper: two complaint findings letters, both shown on screen in the video. The first, complaint file COM-2025-010, answers the March 8 call, case 24AF02000. It says the review covered Goodale’s police report and footage “from the body-worn cameras (BWC) of two other officers that were on scene,” and it finds Goodale engaged in “on-duty conduct which Goodale should have reasonably known was unbecoming a member of this department and would reflect negatively on this department,” citing Policy 320, Standards of Conduct.
The second letter answers the parking lot, and it reaches past department policy. It finds violations of “department policies and state law,” and names the statute: “Unlawful parking in an accessible parking space (Utah Code Annotated 41-1a-414(3)(a)).” On Goodale’s on-camera answer, the letter is direct:
“Goodale told you, ‘Because I’m allowed to.’ This is false. Goodale was subject at the time to the same laws surrounding parking in an accessible parking space as any member of the public within the State of Utah.”
On the order banning Hazard from the property: “Goodale should not have trespassed you from the property, nor do I feel he had the authority to do so.” The order was rescinded in writing. The letter apologizes “on behalf of the department and the city” and says Goodale’s actions “are not representative of the department’s core values.”
And it explains why the findings carry no consequence:
“Zachary Goodale resigned from our police department in January 2025. As such, he is no longer an employee of American Fork City. Because of this, there is no corrective action or discipline that I can impose. I will, however, include documentation of this complaint and my findings in our department records.”
Eleven days before the vote
This is the sixth time since May the channel has put this police department in front of a national audience, and the first since residents made the department’s legal exposure part of the city’s tax conversation, a rate the residents themselves can still stop. The eight minutes of muted conferral in the new footage will also read as familiar here: the department’s own released bodycam, hosted on this site, is mapped for exactly that kind of silence. The council votes on the property tax rate on Tuesday, August 25.
Sources. LackLuster, “American Fork Police - ‘I’ll Traumatize Him For You’” (August 14, 2026), and its American Fork series linked in the table above · the bodycam and findings letters as shown on screen in that video (Axon serials X60A9171X and X60AA0270; case 24AF02000; complaint file COM-2025-010) · American Fork City Council minutes, September 10, 2024, HERO Award presentation · Prior reporting: the June 9 record, the August 11 hearing, the tax rate, the Greenland docket, the bodycam library.
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