http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24417234

Can thugs be white black or whatever? Yup.

But guaranteed if you did grabbed a bunch of stories with the word 'thug' on them you're going to see interesting uses of them just like the Katrina meme with the looters vs survivors.

And lets not act like normally benign words haven't historically taken a racial connotation through use.

While obviously someone wants to separate those assholes from the regular protestors, when you find yourself on the side of the NyPost or Foxnews...