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Originally Posted by Red-Mile-DJ
Everyone channels their anger in different ways. Some people get quiet, while others go off like this. I see nothing more than a man that had a bad day or something that was said set him off.
As for saying "he's clearly coked out" or whatever, I would ask you: what set of actions, reactions, etc set the standard for deciding if someone is on coke based on just a visual observation?
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It's all about context. Alone, sure you could dismiss this as just a bad day, an anger fit.
But we have way more information that this. We know he overindulges with alcohol. He has done it in public and at city hall more than once. He's even admitted it. We also know he smokes crack, so it's extremely likely he snorts cocaine.
Lastly, he is talking about hurting someone in the video. In some instances it seems like a fight he wants to get into, even one that may be planned by both sides, but in others it sounds like actual murder. Like he wants to kill someone and get away with it. As was mentioned above, there are dead people in his wake and he associates with criminals, so this is a concern.
At the very least it's an important bit of evidence that perhaps he's not in the right mental state to lead a city right now. Like I said, if it was once, then sure, whatever. But it's not once. It's not even twice. It's not 3 or 4 or 5 times. It's a pattern of poor decisions, bad behaviour, and a spiral of self destruction that may or may not involve other people.
This is hardly a oh, he's just a passionate person having a bad day situation. This is a person who works for the public, who needs to maintain a decent image for both himself and the city he represents who is clearly going through something he can't handle. At the best, it's just a personal problem of his that's affecting his work and the people around him (and the city, how can you say it isn't?), and at the worst it's a pattern of criminal behaviour.
As for coke. I don't know what to tell you, but yeah, he looks coked the f out. He's moving back and forth, hyper, energetic, but not completely coherent. He gets lost in his thoughts even though he's obviously on some sort of stimulant. If he were just drunk, the speech would be very different. Alcohol is a depressant. Yeah at times it can work you up, but it's different, it's not quite like that.
Secondly, we know he smokes crack, so cocaine is right in the wheelhouse.