Their quarry was not crack dealers or violent thugs.
"It's about time that cop-killers and other violent thugs started having nightmares of their own," the Governor's statement said.
The Communists in the film are also shown to be violent thugs who kill informers.
Yet what happens, they get attacked by violent thugs using all sorts of weaponry in police uniform.
They were in their seventies, why risk being seen by violent thugs who might come back and get them?
Over the next few years, Strang grows into a violent, misogynistic thug.
In his absence, defense lawyers seemed to have little trouble portraying him as a violent thug who provoked the beating.
As far as she knew, he was a violent thug who wanted to rule the world Quebec at least.
Those who call for 'violent young thugs' to be locked up should understand a little more and condemn a little less, he says.