I don't think status has anything to do with their comment. What made you bring it up?

The quote: "scraping the bottom of the barrel"

To label a group of people lower than the lowest implies these people belong to a lower class.

class = status

Doesn't look to me like the 'bottom of the barrel' comment was applied to the social status of the woman. Looked more like parent was making the point that it's a stretch to call the drug dealer the victim...that the reporter must be scraping the 'bottom of the barrel' of their story ideas.

You're going to have to be a lot more specific. What makes you think 'bottom of the barrel' was referring to the social status of the woman?

Criminals are definitely belong in a lower status category.

"drug dealer" ... "bottom of the barrel"...

The obvious implication is that drug dealers are low-status individuals who deserve this kind of treatment.

They never said that she was bottom of the barrel.

What's your experience of drug dealers? I'm really curious where this new age anti police pro drug peddler mentality is coming from because I've had multiple friends over my 40 years lost to drugs so what the fuck is the defence of these people about? Many people that can be sold drugs are victims.. so yeah these drug dealer cretins are low status.

It's the result of the influx of young western kids smoking weed. They think they will go to prison for 800 years if they are caught, so they become anti police to feel better about their bad habits.

Or it could because there is increased awareness of the originally racist and authoritarian motives for modern drug laws? I'm not of the mind that weed cannot and does not frequently become a bad habit but weed abuse is far less problematic than alcohol abuse yet the former is treated as a criminal affair.

Black people are the most consistently anti-police demographic so I don't know where you're getting the idea that it's "young western kids" that are propagating the anti-police rhetoric.