Thugs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (where I used to live) shot and killed a student, Arif Sayed Faisal. The thug department refuses to say which thugs were involved and has given out little information.

The city's thug commissioner said that there was a city policy not to release names of thugs who kill. At the next city council meeting, the mayor asked the commissioner whether that was true, and the commissioner admitted it wasn't.

Various officials admitted they wanted to delay so that public outrage would die down.

I've decided to add "officer-involved shooting" to my antiglossary.