So,
I should probably reserve these questions to asking him directly
But from what you've described here this is quite a transgression. A townie shouldn't be trying to bait out cop claims when they're about to be lynched. That's literally a textbook scum play.
Someone stop me if I'm missing something here, because again, I'm going off maybe half of d1 and cliffnotes
so D1 happened like this:
i got called scum by Ekko, Ratchet at the start of D1
i got an emotional reaction (i'm a newbie player btw, my second mafia forum game, i've only played town of salem and tabletop mafia before) after getting tunneled by Ratchet for quite some time
then Phoenix voted on me (he flipped scum lynch D1)
Ratchet then asked for me to claim character, D1, with just 3 votes and nothing else
that made everyone turn on Ratchet
so when we were still like 12 hours or something from the lynch, he claimed cop to try and change wagons
which we did