Official We Own This City Season 1 Thread

[Afro]

cops make good money and still trash

Six figures and Wayne still wanted to sell drugs on the side and rob drug dealers.

Like wow man, slow the fukk down just wasn’t in the cards

 

[Afro]

She was my least favourite character as well. I think the entire Civil Rights division subplot gave little to the story and could've been left out. A lot of the dialogue between the civil right division people came off as cliche too.

That plot was needed for people who weren’t privy to the bullshyt. To be blunt, I assumed it was for the ignorant white folks.

If you’ve seen The Wire, you already knew it was gonna be fukkery, worst part being it’s based on a true story.

 

[Mortal1]

Hopefully Shane becomes one of the regular HBO actors now.

I think he was in Show Me A Hero with Oscar Issac and David Simon.

 

[PortCityProphet]

dope series.
my nikka Jon B was one shyt talkin muthafukka man soon as he got his confidence up muthafukka did not shut up, it almost makes you like him then you remember he a dirty lying piece of shyt cop

Show did an amazing job of showing the corruption and how it fukked up everyday people who mind their own business and why black folk can't even get one foot out the quicksand even when they do everything right.

Wild how them nikkas aint give af knowing they were being watched by the feds but I guess when you know you going down regardless might as well keep going


And yo I knew nikkas loved the wire but I never knew cats had such a sentimental emotional bond like that until I read this thread like damn yall, one would think the wire was some of yall personal family history the way yall romanticize about it and some of the actors who were in it


But most importantly did this fool really rob a midget stripper

 

[MajesticLion]

NYC, Philly, Chicago, Miami, Houston, LA, St Louis, New Orleans...a lot of cities and PDs could stand to get put under a similar microscope. I left off ATL and the DMV because those are the two off top I can think of where there are too many moving pieces - competing county departments, incorporated cities and associated politicians - to easily tell a digestible narrative. Now that I think about it Houston should probably be in with those two.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

NYC, Philly, Chicago, Miami, Houston, LA, St Louis, New Orleans...a lot of cities and PDs could stand to get put under a similar microscope. I left off ATL and the DMV because those are the two off top I can think of where there are too many moving pieces - competing county departments, incorporated cities and associated politicians - to easily tell a digestible narrative. Now that I think about it Houston should probably be in with those two.

NYC and LA been through they shyt with Michael Dowd and Rampart respectively. This shyt ain't ever gonna change just like the police brutality and shyt. It's unfortunate but it's true.

I lived in Bmore during this time, lived in L.A. during the Rodney King era and now live in Little Rock.

My oldest son came here from Philly to go to college and went to a private school in a racist ass town. When we went to visit the school the coach who took us on the tour said and I quote "if you have to leave this campus after sundown I suggest you take some who doesn't look like you". I'm sure yall can guess what he meant.

His sophomore year (three years ago) I got pulled over in Little Rock and when i asked the officer why he pulled me over after he ran my tags, registration etc. he responded "you have Lyon decals on your vehicle and I didn't think someone like you could have went there". When I told him "officer I didn't go there my son goes there" he hit the and walked away.

So this muthafuka thought I stole my vehicle all because of me being a Black Man driving a vehicle with my sons Alma Matter being displayed . This shyt will NEVER change

 

[DaddyFresh]

Idk if someone told you yet but the shield is like this cept on steroids when it comes to showing how cops are

I feel like the Shield was so over the top that people didn’t take it serious as portrayal of how some cops are and looked at it just like a Hollywood depiction

dope series.
my nikka Jon B was one shyt talkin muthafukka man soon as he got his confidence up muthafukka did not shut up, it almost makes you like him then you remember he a dirty lying piece of shyt cop

Show did an amazing job of showing the corruption and how it fukked up everyday people who mind their own business and why black folk can't even get one foot out the quicksand even when they do everything right.

Wild how them nikkas aint give af knowing they were being watched by the feds but I guess when you know you going down regardless might as well keep going

I think they just thought they were protected. Everybody in the city knew they were corrupt police, DAs, defense attorneys etc. As long as they were putting up stats it seemed like nobody cared.
And you right about Jon B dude killed the role so well got me stanning a dirty cop lmao

 

[MajesticLion]

NYC and LA been through they shyt with Michael Dowd and Rampart respectively. This shyt ain't ever gonna change just like the police brutality and shyt. It's unfortunate but it's true.

I lived in Bmore during this time, lived in L.A. during the Rodney King era and now live in Little Rock.

My oldest son came here from Philly to go to college and went to a private school in a racist ass town. When we went to visit the school the coach who took us on the tour said and I quote "if you have to leave this campus after sundown I suggest you take some who doesn't look like you". I'm sure yall can guess what he meant.

His sophomore year (three years ago) I got pulled over in Little Rock and when i asked the officer why he pulled me over after he ran my tags, registration etc. he responded "you have Lyon decals on your vehicle and I didn't think someone like you could have went there". When I told him "officer I didn't go there my son goes there" he hit the and walked away.

So this muthafuka thought I stole my vehicle all because of me being a Black Man driving a vehicle with my sons Alma Matter being displayed . This shyt will NEVER change

Folks who lived through them are going to know, sure. What I'm talking about is having a Simon/Burns/Pelecanos kind of miniseries looking at the ins and outs of those places. In the same way Wunmi Musaku's character exists to spell out things for those who just don't know, that kind of show would help a lot of people learn just how flawed all these systems truly are...with not just hearsay, but with evidence anybody can look at and see for themselves.

A lot of reporting and tv and movies have gone into letting people know(on a basic level) how shady NYC and LA have been, in politics and policing both. How many people knew anything about Baltimore before The Wire?

 

[Top Flight Security]

NYC and LA been through they shyt with Michael Dowd and Rampart respectively. This shyt ain't ever gonna change just like the police brutality and shyt. It's unfortunate but it's true.

I lived in Bmore during this time, lived in L.A. during the Rodney King era and now live in Little Rock.

My oldest son came here from Philly to go to college and went to a private school in a racist ass town. When we went to visit the school the coach who took us on the tour said and I quote "if you have to leave this campus after sundown I suggest you take some who doesn't look like you". I'm sure yall can guess what he meant.

His sophomore year (three years ago) I got pulled over in Little Rock and when i asked the officer why he pulled me over after he ran my tags, registration etc. he responded "you have Lyon decals on your vehicle and I didn't think someone like you could have went there". When I told him "officer I didn't go there my son goes there" he hit the and walked away.

So this muthafuka thought I stole my vehicle all because of me being a Black Man driving a vehicle with my sons Alma Matter being displayed . This shyt will NEVER change

knew a few kids in aau from batesville..i've been once and will never go back. the further north you go in the state, the worse it gets

 

[young3000]

The show was dope as fukk
Whole city was corrupt
The Wire Reunion lol. Duke cleaned up nice
Sean

 

[DonRe]

She was my least favourite character as well. I think the entire Civil Rights division subplot gave little to the story and could've been left out. A lot of the dialogue between the civil right division people came off as cliche too.

Damn i wrote something like this verbatim early in this thread but couldnt articulate it.

That woman is cute but shes not a good actress in one bit and all her lines and dialogue felt forced. Like it read from a urban sociology course at your local state university.

I dug the involvement of the doj but even that wasn't nuanced enough. She just blamed trump. Albiet obvious but its like tell me something i dont know.

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[Texasboy713]

NYC, Philly, Chicago, Miami, Houston, LA, St Louis, New Orleans...a lot of cities and PDs could stand to get put under a similar microscope. I left off ATL and the DMV because those are the two off top I can think of where there are too many moving pieces - competing county departments, incorporated cities and associated politicians - to easily tell a digestible narrative. Now that I think about it Houston should probably be in with those two.

Add Memphis to that list while you at it