This is bullshit. People who torch cars and riot in the streets are thugs and there’s no coded message in the word. Race matters little in the interpretation of the word. Perhaps the mayor reacted too slowly when the crowd starting getting out of control. I don’t know...I wasn’t there. But to get PO’ed at the word “thug” is kinda like rearranging the deck furniture on the Titanic. If police were doing their job and cuffing people at the time it was going on, I’ll be it could have been avoided.
Waymo car in San Francisco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AuogqWG8pM
I suspect the Portland thugs were mostly white.
Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade