“We changed the looks of his groin forever if you know what I mean,” Judd said. [More]
From his previous run-ins, it sounds like this whole incident would have been prevented if only “the law” had been applied.
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We’re the Only Ones Crotchety Enough
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The Ritz in the Ybor City area of Tampa is not a hotel, but is the Ritz Theater, mainly used for musical events. It appears that someone among the 1000+ audience almost had the opportunity to yell “FIRE!” in a crowded theater:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ritz_Ybor
“Surveillance video from outside the Ritz in Ybor City appears to show a man set fire to the club’s air conditioning unit early Sunday morning, with more than 1,000 people inside, according to the business’ manager.
Tampa police said the suspect got in a truck and drove away after starting the fire. But the Ritz’s general manager, Paul Cifelli, said the suspect didn’t drive that far.
Cifelli said he first talked to Tampa police around 5 a.m. after spotting the truck and taking down the license plate.
He said the officer tried to perform a traffic stop but, the driver took off.
“The cop comes back and says, ‘Look man, I’m two minutes away from shift change and there’s no other units. We can’t chase him based on what I’ve seen on the footage,’” Cifelli said.
A short time later, he said the truck was spotted again in another part of Ybor City.
“The comment that I heard from one of the responding officers was: ‘It looked like, as we boxed him in, he was reaching for a firearm, and we’re not wanting to get into a shootout,’ so [the driver] pushed through, and they let him go,” Cifelli said.
Hours later, around 8 a.m., a man named Luke Neely showed up at a house in Lakeland, where deputies say he started throwing Molotov cocktails onto the roof. They now believe Neely was the same suspect who set the fire behind the Ritz.
Cifelli said he believes police should have done more, sooner, to stop Neely from causing more harm.
Meanwhile, Chase Esteve’s parents and sister live in the home in Lakeland. He believes Neely was going after his sister, an old acquaintance from high school.
“The whole family is extremely thankful [that] I’m not planning a funeral for three people,” Esteve said.”
https://www.fox13news.com/news/ybor-city-club-manager-says-more-should-have-been-done-to-stop-suspected-arsonist
Shift change is when s..stuff happens.