terror ?
""first-degree terroristic threatening charges"
ah, so domestic disputes are now terrorism too ? Glad to hear that legislation isn't being misapplied...
Honolulu firefighters yesterday extracted a naked man from a rubbish chute after he unsuccessfully attempted to evade cops by taking the fast route out of a Waikiki apartment building. Police responded to a 4am 911 call from a resident on the seventh floor who told them his roommate "had been drinking heavily, physically …
Quick googling shows "terroristic threat" is a specific charge in Hawaian state law and and covers items such as threating someone on more than one occasion, threatening a member of the emergency medical services while they are performing their duty or threating someone with a dangerous implement. I.e. its basically a charge of threatening someone with the intent of making them feel terror ... which in the UK would be classified as assault.
So the comments above are the usual case that as soon as the word "terrorist" is attached to anything the people assume that it can only be applied to people of middle eastern or irish origin.