We started the season with a gang war about to pop off because ManBoy killed one of Scully's main people. Franklin tries to negotiate peace-- Scully said fukk all that. In order to avoid a full on gang war that would have killed far more people than have already died, Franklin makes a tough decision. Unfortunately ManBoy and his people fukk it up. Franklin immediately warns Leon and says hey lets work together to solve this and keep everyone safe. Leon says fukk all that-- I got me. Leon gets caught slipping and then decides to go on the offensive-- the exact opposite of what Franklin said do. Scully's daughter/ManBoy's niece is killed. I mean breh-- you saying other nikkas not making bad decisions-- but I'm seeing Franklin constantly try to take the diplomatic approach-- but he's got nikkas with too much lead in their system around him.
As far as Jerome and Louie-- I don't feel bad for Jerome that he didn't know about the CIA. Look how emotional he's acting. And it's not like Franklin knew from jump. You can't commit crimes and then complain about less than ideal outcomes. You're a criminal.
Louie told Franklin to get rid of Manboy. Leon told Franklin not to fukk with Manboy in the first place and Franklin gave him the "Brick by brick!" speech. Why should Leon have jumped to help clean up Franklins mess that he told him not to get involved in? Clearly he doesn't respect Leons smarts and only wants him around as a crash dummy and muscle. Franklin continues to ignore people who didn't just jump off the porch like he did,and have much more street smarts then he does. Leon tried to tell Franklins ass what he was trying to avoid is unavoidable and the violence is going to come to their neighborhoods anyway.
Then he threatened to kill Leon like he did Kevin,and cut Leon off like he was a peon.Only to come "warn" Leon after he needed more muscle. To protect him from Skully who was on that ass lol. Yes Franklin is trying diplomacy with people who don't give a damn about his diplomacy,and thats whats causing all this
How has diplomacy with Manboy worked out for him so far. He still don't see Manboy missed Skully on purpose.