More on the man convicted for Charlottesville violence.
Look at the language: not "hostile" but "a hostile". That's also the language we've heard from this administration. It's a noun, not an adjective describing a person. I've seen this language on MN too, among certain posters.
White supremacist is guilty in Charlottesville parking garage beating of black man
www.washingtonpost.com/local/white-supremacist-is-guilty-in-charlottesville-parking-garage-beating-of-black-man/2018/05/01/033396b4-4af9-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?utm_term=.b7b94396ae94&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
“I thought he was a hostile . . . To be honest, I was terrified,” Goodwin [the attacker] said, adding that he thought, “I’d probably perish or be sent to the hospital and be terribly hurt.”
He said he engaged in self-defense and felt he had only one choice, which was to kick Harris four times while Harris was falling down on the garage floor and scrambling to get back up multiple times.
“I was trying to neutralize a threat,” Goodwin said.
For the entire trial, neither the prosecutors nor the defense attorney questioned Goodwin about his affiliation with any white-supremacist groups. Last month, in an NBC documentary featuring interviews with Goodwin and his parents, he said he is a member of a group called the Arkansas ShieldWall Network and that he advocates for “white civil rights.”
At the rally, Goodwin wore two pins, one bearing the number 88, a code for “Heil Hitler,” and a second with the logo of the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white-nationalist group.