Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) Ko te kupu i whakamahia e te Perehitini Barack Obama me te Kawana o Baltimore a Stephanie Rawlings-Blake hei tohu i nga kaiwhakatuma, kua hoatu he oranga hou ki te tautohetohe mo te kupu "thug". "Kāore i te tika te kupu, ki te karanga i ā tātou tamariki he 'tīpeka,'" i kī te Kaunihera o te Taone o Baltimore a Carl Stokes ki te "Erin Burnett OutFront" a CNN. "Ko ēnei ngā tamariki kua waiho ki te taha, kua whakawātea, kāore i whakauruhia e mātou. Kāore, e kore e tika kia kiia rātou he kaitiaki". "Tangohia noa ratou n-----s. Just karanga ratou n-----s, "ka mea ia. "Kahore, e kore e whai tatou ki te karanga ratou e nga ingoa pērā i taua". Ko te Rev. Jamal Bryant i whakataurite i taua whakataurite ano i te ata o te Wenerei i runga i te CNN. E mea ana ia kei te hē te Perehitini me te koromatua. "Kāore ēnei i te hunga kino, he tamariki pouri, he tamariki māuiui". "He mea whakamiharo. Kāore e kīia e koe e ono ngā pirihimana e patu ana i tētahi tangata, kāore he take e tika ana, he 'tōrangapū', engari ko ngā tamariki e pōraru ana, ā, kāore he putanga, e kīia e koe he 'tōrangapū'. Ko te kupu 'thugs' te kupu o te rau tau 21 mō te kupu n. A he mea whakarihariha, he mea whakahi ki nga tangata katoa he matua e ngana ana ki te whakatipu tamariki e whakamaori ana i nga mea e tupu ana i tenei haora. " Ko te raruraru o nā tata nei i Baltimore i whakaohohia e te hēnga me te matenga o Freddie Gray, nāna i whara te puku o te roro i a ia e here ana. E ono ngā pirihimana kua whakatārewatia i runga i te kaupapa. Ko Bryant te kaiwhakahauhau i te tangihanga o Gray. He aha tātau e mōhio ana, kāore e mōhio ana mō te matenga o Freddie Gray. I whakautu te Tumuaki Rawlings-Blake i te Wenerei. "I hiahia ahau ki te whakamarama i aku korero mo te 'thugs,'" i tuhia e ia i te Wenerei i runga i Twitter. "Ki te korero koe i roto i te pouri me te riri, ka taea e te tangata te korero i nga mea i roto i te ara e kore e koe te tikanga". I tāpiri atu ia, "I taua pō i kite mātou i ngā rangatahi pohehe e tika ana kia whai kawenga, engari e hiahia ana hoki ki te tautoko. A, kaore aku kōrero i te whakaatu i tera". Ko Kweisi Mfume, he tangata whenua no Baltimore, he perehitini o mua o te NAACP, i mea, "He mea nui kia kaua e hurihia e tatou te arotahi ki tetahi mea kaore he mea e pa ana ki te rawakore, te pouri, te hiakai, te kore whare me te whakaaro kaore he waahi". "Ahakoa ka karanga tatou ki a ratou...
E mea ana te koromatua o Baltimore e hiahia ana ia ki te "whakarite" i te whakamahinga o te kupu. Ko ētahi kaiārahi hapori i te taone e kī ana ko te kupu e ōrite ana ki te kupu n. Ko ētahi atu kāore i te whakaae, ā, kāore i te hiahia kia pōhēhē te tautohetohe ki ngā take.