>But thugs and thuggery still exists, and these activities fall
>pretty squarely into that category.

What's going in is that thier is RIOTING and CIVIL UNREST.

Do you think that people who listen to RockSteady music and beat people up join a lark have decided its time for a new dimension to their life? Like "I just slapped a guy around and took $260 bucks form him, I'll burn down a CVS for shits and giggles?"

Let's face it, when someone says "THUGS are rioting" you *KNOW* what they mean.

The mayor of Baltimore (or bum-shit Utah) didn't use the term when Cliven Bundy's "militia" pointed guns at the feds. Why not? Not black. (Or there was "one of the good ones" out there?) (I did call them redneck chicken fuck holes that need to fuck the fuck off, but I don't work for CNN.)

Are the kids in school uniforms throwing bricks THUGS? (Do they listen to bebop and enjoy arsony?)

Or are they RIOTERS?

They're labeled the people as THUGS so they can be dehumanized and ignored. Because they don't want to talk about the real issues that need to be addressed.

They'll CERTAINLY be consequences for the rioters, will there be any for the leadership of Baltimore?