There's not a good way for me to respond to that without going off-topic. The following is assuming that wasn't a rhetorical question, if it was rhetorical I guess we may just agree to disagree:

Until he issues a public apology for his actions, I'll refer to him as Kip. Changing your name to run from the google searches is completely understandable, and I support second chances, but you need to show a bit of remorse IMO.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-landlord-hell-defends-te...

Wow, I was thinking the headline was underselling the story before I got to the part about him fleeing the country after his parents bailed him out of jail to the tune of half a million.

Hot damn, that’s one crazy story!

Damn that link was an adventure from start to end.

I wasn't aware this was the same person. Thanks.

I don't really think that the 'online mob' has the right to hold someone's past actions over their head, and expect some public appeasement before it relents.

The actions of... pouring ammonia in his tenants' beds, throwing their stuff onto the street in trash bags, cutting holes in their apartments' floors while they were inside, cutting through floor joists under their apartments and physically attacking the building supervisor when he complained, fleeing the country to avoid arrest and sticking his own mother with a half-million-dollar bail forfeit as a result...

... no, no, there's no reason to hold actions like that over someone's head. It's entirely praiseworthy and I'm sure it's really easy to cooperate with such an upstanding character.

His interactions with James have done nothing to convince me that he’s become a decent human being.

What you think has no bearing on reality. They will because they can.