If Avon had let Omar breath for a while like Stringer suggested he would have been saved a lot of trouble down the road. Avon's idea of torturing Brandon and "Putting him on display" was stupid in hindsight and incurred the wrath of Omar. No need for all that extra nonsense just kill him and chalk it up to the game.
Was killing D'Angelo heartless? Yes, but it had to be done. We saw how easily D folded when the pressure got to him. He clearly wasn't cut out for the gangster life style and once he started to feel them years he would have flipped. Even Avon realized it had to be done.
The Co-Op was a great idea that brought in more money and less attention from the cops. Instead of beefing over corners and killing each other over grievances, the king-pins sat together and aired out concerns. Everything was all good until Avon started beefing with some snot nose kid over territory that they didn't even need. Look, I like Avon but he just couldn't see the big picture. Like Stringer said "They don't want to see you get organized".
Sorry breh,
Avon>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Stringer Bell.
Avon knew what he was. He was a drug dealer. He never tried to be something that he was not. He never confused what he was doing with anything but being a drug dealer. If he had to kill somebody to make other people leave him alone then he did it.
Avon was even smart enough to know that D'Angelo wanted out of the game. He was going to let him leave, because he knew that blood was more important to him than business. There was not a need to kill his own nephew in his mind, because he knew that his nephew was not going to hurt his business.
He even advised his nephew in prison not to use drug on the night that the were spiked.
Avon loved his nephew. He was not going to hurt him and D'Angelo knew that, but D just wanted his space from Avon. Wey Bey and Avon even have a heart to heart talk about D after D was murdered in prison; at that time Avon thought that D had committed suicide and D had only did that to make Avon hurt. Right during that scene you could tell that Avon was hurting for his nephew.
Oddly enough Avon was a better business man than Stringer Bell, because Avon could see a bullshytter like Senator Clay Davis early on in the hustle. And Avon would not let Stringer have Slim Charles kill Clay Davis, because it would have been bad for business.
Now if you want to talk about cold. Avon was much colder and business oriented than Stringer Bell. Here is a scene where the two are reminiscing on the balcony in one scene, but then we learn that Avon set up the hit on Stringer; because he knew that Stringer had to go. Look at how fukking surprised that Stringer is when he learns that Avon gave him up. Stringer had no words.
Finally, Avon wanted to smoke Marlo early on, because Marlo was bad for business, but Stringer fukked that up. Oddly enough Avon admired Marlo's business skills, but Marlo couldn't do shyt without Avon. Avon didn't even give a fukk about the Co-Op just like Marlo didn't.
i wanted to see Kenard come came of age too, he could've went either way. If he was dumb he would just be another corner boy going nowhere. But if he had a head on him, he would've became the next Marlo. Boy was sadistic 
