TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a public comment from online platforms. You are expected to classify the comment into two classes: threat and non-threat. Threat is a statement that someone will be hurt or harmed, especially if the person does not do something in particular.
PROBLEM: Comment: It is beyond me how the Vancouver Mayor can say, with a straight face: "Vancouverites are frustrated – particularly around housing affordability... We're working hard to deliver solutions..."

Hello?

"We're working hard to deliver solutions"?

Are you kidding me?

Look, Mister Mayor, could you please show me the news reports of you publicly and vocally demanding, to Trudeau and Couillard, that Ottawa and Quebec shut down the Quebec investor immigrant program on the grounds that it has flooded millions upon millions of dollars into the Vancouver real estate market?

See, strange thing, Mister Mayor, is when you Google, in the Google news search, the words "Greg Robertson" and "investor immigrant", you get ZERO hits!

And yet you pretend your team is working hard on house prices, do ya?

Dude, you have been so absent from solutions that your office is not even mentioned - not even once -in the online article summarizing events, "We’ve Let Vancouver Become a Playground for Plutocrats"!

SOLUTION: Non-threat

PROBLEM: Comment: Floyd received a ticket because the police lost face; that's it. If he was speeding, the police need to have him on radar some other accepted method to actually track his speed, and then it's their choice if they issue him a ticket for speeding. The police officer has to actually see him driving recklessly as well, and I am pretty sure the officer was not chasing Floyd and the car thief at the same time; he probably came after the fact and issued him the citation. It will be interesting to hear the officer lie under oath come the court date. Meanwhile, the DA is thinking of every angle to get this hardened threat to society to just pay the ticket and throw every resource at him to fold like a cheap suit.

SOLUTION: Non-threat

PROBLEM: Comment: Yes, great photo. He's really clenching those tiny fists.
Someone please get him a tie tack or clip.

SOLUTION:
Non-threat