Not sure where you got your information, but it's not accurate. . 1st off, Thomas wasn't breaking into cars, that was an allegation made by a ‘Slidebar’ restaurant employee, at the prompting of her boss, Jeremy Popoff. Thomas was a nuisance hanging around the bar, but he wasn't violent. He was picking up cigarette butts to smoke. . It was the Slidebars call to police that set off this chain of events.
DeMarco had been watching Thomas weaving in between cars, looking through car windows and pulling door handles for up to four minutes before calling police, said Eric Dubin, the SlideBar’s attorney
— that’s from your link!
This happened more tha 2 years ago. There has been a lot of local coverage, practically daily when it happened.