What could possibly be said/done in that video that would justify the thug’s behavior?
In the modern American dialect of English, “thug” means dark-skinned male, but I’ll guess you’re referring to the cop.
One thing that does seem clear is that the perp spoke very little English. Since most people assume ISIS will choose terrorists who speak excellent English to swim across the Rio Grande, infiltrate America and vaccinate our children it is obvious that a smart ISIS will “mix it up” and try to fool us with terrorists who don’t speak English.
Thus, law enforcement was right to be concerned. The cops showed great restraint just paralyzing the jihadist thug instead of emptying their gun magazines.
Really, since when? To me, a thug is somebody willing to use a bit of physicality to get what they want. Skin colour has nothing to do with it. Rocky and Mugsy are thugs.
The dark skinned male is technically a “Thuggee”, everybody else is just a thug
Unfortunately “Thug” has turned into a racist code-word in some circles, supplanting “Urban.” Usually you can tell from the context the way it’s intended.
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No, it does not.
You’re right. It actually means “Hey there! I’m a racist prick who is too nutless to use the n-word.”
[Groping cop shoots wall](http:// Texas Cop Accused Of Groping Woman, Firing Gun Into Hotel Wall | HuffPost Latest News)
See, I view this as a good thing. A violent, entitled idiot with a gun has been identified publicly. Either he will be divested of his gun and badge, or he’ll get a slap on the wrist… but now we know he’s a violent, entitled idiot with a gun… and a badge.
And all it took was an outraged waitress and a bullet hole in a wall. Nobody hurt. Nobody killed. And my faith is restored by the dozen other cops sitting there who promptly jumped on this idiot and took his gun away…
Interesting story. This URL will work better.
How many agree you can often guess a person’s character by looking at his face? If I saw Corporal Kenneth Lee Sheka’s mug I’d start running the other way.
Offtopic re: weird html:[SPOILER]Call me a pervert, but for me the most interesting part of that story was the weird formatting, e.g.
I’ve never seen an html browser break up a short word like “stop” before. Both Firefox and Chrome display thusly for me. Researching a little, I find that in the page’s html the entire story is inside the content attribute of this tag:
<meta itemprop=‘articleBody’ property=‘article:body’ content='…
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Then you have to, like, attach speakers to whatever you are using. Or headphone things, whatever it takes, because I can hear that quite clearly. And the other video that I posted earlier does give a very good view of what happened.
So, stop being a prick and pay attention to stuff.
Not with my version of Firefox 40.0.3, Mac OS 10.10.5. Or it’s been fixed.
Html hijack: [spoiler]
But just now, clicking refresh in both Chrome and Firefox, the weird line-breaks go away. View-source shows the same metatag encapsulation. (Stupidly I threw away the first source window, so cannot do a byte-by-byte compare.) 
Now I’m wondering if it was some malware or anti-malware interacting with the browsers. 
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And you’d be wrong.
*thug
noun
› a man who acts violently, especially to commit a crime:
Some thugs smashed his windows.*
Where do you find the time to create such imaginative musings?
Returning to the Sheka story
So he’d lose $250 to a bondsman if he didn’t have the cash? I think a civilian would be posting much more. :dubious:
American citizens are hoping for a demonstration that the police do police their own. If a cop is obviously at fault like this, he should be asked to resign. Period. Instead we see more and more of the same, as though American LEO is proudly embracing its jackboot persona.
Have I insulted D’Orange today?
No. You’d be wrong. (And pleeeeze … a dictionary? :rolleyes: )
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Are dictionaries banned in your world? Other worlds find them quite useful.
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Bravo.
When you watch a video like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_SSGa7-6BQ and then hear a jury couldn’t agree, it makes you realize how good some lawyers must be, and how wrong the justice system can be.
And also how dangerous cops can be.
Still, I’ll take my chances with US cops over the authorities in most of the rest of the world.
From you, Dad! I learned it from you!!