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No, but that is the whole point. People see this boy (Martin) and when they see the results of the toxicology reports that show he had drugs in his system they immediately have this opinion that he is a "thug." I've read countless online comments referring to his character. It is hard to not see a racial component in these comments because when we see the reports about Miley Cyrus or Justin Beiber people looking at these individuals do not refer to them as a "thug" or "misfit" most people look these individuals as mentally unstable. So yes there are racial components in how society has viewed this boy. For example looking at black on black shooting crimes, most people attribute that to drug/gang violence, yet when the Batman theater movie shooter killed a large group of people he is "crazy." His behavior wasn't thuggish it was merely mentally unstable.
Can't say boy........................Its a racial slur.
He is a thug because he acted like a thug.
Thugs get suspended 3 times in one school year, are caught with unexplained mysterious women's jewelry and a screwdriver (commonly used to break into stuff and recognized in the criminal justice community as a burglary tool), caught at school with a baggie with marijuana "shake" in it. Talk in ebonics (see Martin's facebook captures), take photos of them flashing cash, gold teeth. Thugs seek out guns to purchase (as evidenced by Martin's text messages pulled from his phone), have conversations about fighting other people, take photographs flipping off the camera.
There is alot more here than a kid who took lean and smoked marijuana.