Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
Originally Posted By: rockstar_man45
I think people who loot, riot and steal fit the exact definition of a thug. So fuck that. Call the protestors, protestors, because there are people out there being peaceful and exercising a constitutional right. But those people looting and throwing rocks at officers? Yeah those are thugs

Like I said, the word has been around forever. It's a blanket term for criminal types of all kinds. Cops have used it since forever. And it never had anything to do with Black or White until the Hip-Hop era. This is just more politically correct nonsense. But it's so ridiculous that I think it could blow over.


I agree completely. I'm saying it's important to make a distinction between thugs and protestors. But Obama and the mayor should not have had to backtrack on a statement that was true. The people destroying Baltimore right now are by every definition thugs.