What do you think, Sonia, the mystery of Sean Suiter's death and the fallout say about Baltimore and the public's relationship with the police as a whole? Michael Bromwich, a former US justice department inspector general, and his team conducted a two-year investigation that included more than 160 interviews and examined hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. THE SLOW HUSTLE includes insightful commentary from journalists who remain determined to speak truth to power, including Justin Fenton, author of We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption and D. Watkins, author of We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress who believes the shooting death of Suiter could have been an inside job. To return to our unfair comparison, The Wire believed that systemic forces mattered more than individual failure or triumph. Local hero and cage-fighting super-cop Wayne Jenkins was federally indicted on racketeering charges, along with six other members of Baltimore's elite Gun Trace Task Force. FLORIDO: Your film really does document the Baltimore Police Department's long history of corruption. I dont know about the soul, because Nicole is the soul of the film, or maybe Nicole is the heart. English, United Kingdom For me this case, and the familys position in this case, represent the microcosm of the macrocosm, she says. Suiter is assigned to a new murder case. A protest of Sean Suiters death in The Slow Hustle. So that's sort of like the sieve through which the rumors come through. THE SLOW HUSTLE, a feature documentary directed by Sonja Sohn (HBOs Baltimore Rising, The Wire), chronicles the still unsolved death of Baltimore police detective Sean Suiter, fatally shot in the head in 2017 while in the line of duty, and explores the ongoing speculation about what really happened that day. That produces a culture taken to its extreme, which it was in Baltimore by many, that the ends justify the means, Bromwich continues. Fenton has spoken to many people in Jenkins orbit and made multiple attempts to contact Jenkins in prison but without success. Jenkins learns his fellow officers are cooperating with the investigation as the full extent of his crimes come to light. Oh, Lord. See the full list of We Own This Citycast and charactershere. English, Poland The Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) is the largest companion animal shelter in Maryland. She's also an actor. Thats a terrible fucking idea. It has nothing to do with my level of desire. English, Portugal THE SLOW HUSTLE follows Detective Suitors widow and local investigative reporters as they work to get answers in the Suiter case and hold the Baltimore Police Department and City Hall accountable. The Bachelor Has Two Maryland Contestants. For every inept, violent Roland Pryzbylewski, there was a Lester Freamon, practicing the patient craft of building a case. Officers tell me that its a new day over there and everybodys wearing body cameras all the time, which wasnt the case until pretty late in the investigation of the gun trace taskforce. Nick. In a war, civilians get hurt and nobody does anything. Over six episodes, host D. Watkins will share his experiences in and out of the writers room and speak to the people who brought this story to the screen. Was Suiter an unwitting participant in a scheme carried out by rogue cops? But it is a pointed reminder that after all this time to quote a series that remains quotable for a reason the game is the game. This malaise, Sohn points out, goes beyond Baltimore and policing in general. When we spoke recently, I asked what drew her to Detective Suiter's case. Like many series right now, this one is using a nonfiction story to approximate the power of fictional drama. As he notes, despite numerous different mayors and police commissioners, nothing much has changed in Baltimore over the years aside from the names of those engaging in criminal activity. Ex-po. We Own This City Review: Baltimore Police Problems, Rewired, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/arts/television/we-own-this-city-review.html. See the full cast here. We dont always like what we see but we need to see whats in that mirror if were going to actually present truthfully in the world.. He noted that the location of the lethal gunshot indicated that it could have been a self-inflicted wound, but later remarked that if Suiter was trying to cover up a suicide, he wouldnt have shot himself in the head; instead, he would have fired at his chest, which would have made it resemble a murder. Tells the story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption surrounding it. HBO documentary about Baltimore Police and Detective Sean Suiter's death set to debut in December By Alex Mann Baltimore Sun Nov 12, 2021 at 11:03 am A documentary film profiling. Really, The Wire isnt the only show the setup brings to mind. In January, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh fired her police commissioner and replaced him with former Deputy Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, who promised sweeping reforms to the department. In 2017, Baltimore was rocked by the federal indictment of Wayne Jenkins, a highly decorated super-cop and leader of. You know, it took a minute to gain their trust. HBOs We Own This City Production team is proud to be working with many local Baltimore non-profits to create positive change in the communities where we filmed. She grew up in Newport News, Virginia, had a stint in New York as a slam poet and recorded an album in London. Created by David Simon, this seminal series explores the world of crime in Baltimore through the lenses of both civilians and law enforcement. I was sitting up at CBGBs [music club], the only Black girl with shaved hair, screaming, and I had a zine. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. For HBO: senior producer, Sara Rodriguez; executive producers, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller. Its that systemic rot which proves to be The Slow Hustles fundamental subject. Adapted from former Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton's 2021 book , the show chronicles the rise and fall of one of the most shocking instances of police corruption in Baltimore's history. Bernthal (recently of the Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark) makes a convincing baby gangster, arrogant and petulant, growing sloppier and greedier. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: I got one officer down. It is revealed that Suiter had been summoned to testify in the now infamous Gun Trace Task Force trial, an elite police unit that proved to be one of the dirtiest in Baltimores recent history. The city knows that Suiter was going to testify against a group of corrupt cops and there is this history of corruption in the police department in Baltimore, then that lack of trust is amplified throughout this city., So the first theory that folks are thinking is, Of course you guys killed him. e was praised as a positive role model. A 2016 Department of. As of late March, 76 people had been murdered so far this year, up from 65 over the same period in 2021. The film is about one of the nation's biggest police corruption scandals. On Wednesday morning, former Baltimore police Sgt. THE SLOW HUSTLE is included in a collection of four gripping documentary titles that debut on Tuesdays, beginning November 23. In workplaces across the country, the culture is changing quite a bit. The Wire had built into it the distinction between good police work (painstaking, intensive, focused on real harm) and bad (petty busts and harassment to drive up arrest numbers and make politicians look good). Do we extend that to law enforcement as well? So to me, that was a microcosm of the macrocosm. Baltimore's history of police corruption The scandal broke at a time of struggle and high tensions between Baltimore community members and the police department. French With Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles. Kostoplis was transferred out of the GTTF soon after. The Baltimore police department, recognising that the problem was perhaps guns more than drugs, wanted to have a smarter approach. It's been three years since Baltimore erupted in a series of protests over police violence, exposing deep divisions between the city's police department and the community.The protests captured national attention - prompting a federal investigation - and several high-profile efforts at reform.Now a new scandal is threatening to undermine those efforts, raising questions about the depth of police corruption in Baltimore, and the institutional forces that allow corrupt officers to remain on the street.Fault Lines returns to Baltimore as new details emerge about an elite plain-clothes police unit that, for years, doubled as a criminal gang - robbing residents, planting evidence, and sending countless innocent people to jail.The unit operated with impunity in part because of the way police complaints are investigated.In Baltimore - like many other cities - if a police officer is accused of wrongdoing, the complaint is investigated behind closed doors by the police department's own Internal Affairs Division.Fault Lines investigates how this latest police scandal once again places Baltimore at the centre of a national debate over how and whether police departments can be held accountable to the communities they police.- Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/#AlJazeeraEnglish #BaltimorePolice #Fautlines However, in this particular instance, the dynamics at play arent quite as clear-cut as that description makes them sound. The Baltimore Furniture Bank is a nonprofit organization in Baltimore City, fiscally sponsored by Fusion Partnerships, Inc. And the rumors start to tear Baltimore apart. And there was all of this corruption that he was around. Portuguese, Brazil, Chile Coming to the city was was kind of a reckoning with my own self. I want to just give the team credit; theyve been making documentaries for 30 years. Baltimore is rocked by the Freddie Gray protests. English, Malaysia And I think that's quite a journey that we're all on here, you know, in this country. He lives in Del Ray. Except, as The Slow Hustle soon reveals, things werent as cut and dried as they initially appeared. We Own This City, the anticipated new drama from The Wires David Simon, cracks open the story of a corrupt Baltimore police unit fallen from grace. We are seeing multilayered corruption with new eyes as a culture. You may know her for her role as a Baltimore police detective in the hit series "The Wire." The results of this quest were predictably meager, and it wasnt long before pressure began to mount on Commissioner Kevin Davisfrom both the public and the mayorto find the assailant who killed this heroic cop in the line of duty. Greenwich Entertainment has just. With police reform stalled in Congress, and Republicans stoking fear of rising crime in major cities, does she believe the momentum of the Black Lives Matter protests can be sustained? The corruption and civic woes the show details, as in much of Simons work (Treme, The Deuce), are systemic. I said, Where were you? German Spanish, Colombia Interview The Wire's Sonja Sohn on her Baltimore documentary: 'We are seeing multilayered corruption' David Smith in Washington The actor-turned-director's new film The Slow Hustle tells the. / English, Pakistan The conflicting theories on his death speak to stark divisions between the involved parties an independent review board ruled his death a suicide, a theory that the Suiter family strongly resists. The unsolved case also sparked far-reaching implications for a city already grappling with the complexities of policing in contemporary, urban America. English, Thailand Nobody knew. (The 2021 HBO documentary The Slow Hustle, by the Wire alum Sonja Sohn, touched on aspects of the case.) Courtesy of HBO Max . The documentary focuses on Michael Dowd, a former police officer of 10 years, who was arrested in 1992, leading to one of . We Own This City instead works as a kind of appendix, an updated extra for Simon and Pelecanoss existing, well-earned fan base. The actor-turned-directors new film The Slow Hustle tells the story of a detective who was killed just before he was set to testify in a corruption case. The GTTF further damaged the already troubled relationship between police and residents of Baltimore. English, Australia And with little apparent will to transform police departments (and their cultures of silence and coercion) or the political institutions that support them, it comes across as a deeply rooted malady for which theres no easy cure. Why isnt his death solved by now? Director Sonja Sohn Stars Umar Burley Jill Carter Kevin Davis We'll help you live your best #DCLIFE every day, A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Soccer Team That Fought the Great War. SOHN: First and foremost, it speaks to the lack of trust that the people of the city have in law enforcement not only in Baltimore, but across the country. Like, even if youre a police officer, they really dont.. With candid interviews from members of the Baltimore P.D., Suiters widow and children, journalists, lawyers and political leaders, The Slow Hustle examinesthe continuing mystery surrounding Suiters deathand the multiple theories that emerge in the investigation of the case, including that Suiters death was a calculated murder hit or a suicide. And I felt that the rumors, you know, also have some validity because there is a history of corruption, though rumors, you know, can't always be proven. The Wires Sonja Sohn on her Baltimore documentary: We are seeing multilayered corruption, Director Sonja Sohn interviewing D Watkins for The Slow Hustle. Stream on HBO Max on Dec. 1. And I used the investigative journalists and their journalistic ethics and expertise first and foremost as, I guess, the first sort of filter and sieve through the facts. Led by interviews with Salons D. Watkins (a Baltimore native), The Baltimore Suns Justin Fenton and WMAR-TVs Brian Kuebler, Sohns film immerses itself in a city plagued by pervasive distrust of the police, thanks to a long history of corruption, harassment and murderthe most recent and notorious example of which was the 2015 killing of Freddie Gray. Watkins is the most outspoken of The Slow Hustles many talking heads, but even he confesses that anythings possible when it comes to Suiter, given that its difficult to ascertain the nature and degree of his involvement with the GTTF. That is D.s perspective within the film. English, Denmark English, Israel The Slow Hustle contains interviews with Suiters widow and children, lawyers, politicians and investigative journalists, and Baltimore police including former commissioner Kevin Davis. Wayne Jenkins, who as the real-life head of an elite Baltimore plainclothes unit turned it into a state-run gang. THE SLOW HUSTLE debuts TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT). English, Hong Kong info_outline, Includes: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo - Brazzaville, Congo - Kinshasa, Cte dIvoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guyana, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Runion, Senegal, Togo, Germany, Austria, Switzerland The film follows Suiters family as it tries to get answers about his death. English, France In an act of radical transparency, the Baltimore police department hired an outside investigator to conduct a review. In HBOs We Own This City, Jon Bernthal plays Sgt. What are little things like constitutional requirement such as probable cause or reasonable suspicion when Jenkins was quoted as saying that some of the advice he got early in his career was, Never let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest? That says it all, which was the law was a pesky thing that you could ignore if you couldnt avoid it. Funding social structures that support the people is just a given. But after meeting [Suiters wife] Nicole, and beginning to see that there were pieces missing in the investigation of Seans Suiters death, likethis is a cop. Exploring crime-related stories and the issues surrounding them, the anthology includes: 2023 Warner Bros. In a heightened atmosphere of distrust between disenfranchised communities and the police, THE SLOW HUSTLE brings to light the challenges of uncovering the truth and highlights the devastating fallout on ordinary citizens and police officers alike. I need a unit medic right now. Sonja Sohn, who played Baltimore cop Kima Greggs onThe Wire and who founded a Baltimore-based nonprofit, directs the film. Former members of the GTTF. So you have to think thats making a difference. We glimpse Steeles motives when she recalls her brothers being racially profiled by police. This low profile helped insulate the GTTF from public scrutiny and allowed it go rogue. With a mission to improve Baltimore through green space and education, Parks & Peoplebelieves that everyone deserves a park as a place to learn, play, grow and enjoy. English, Japan Underpinning it all is a Wire-style critique of institutions, in particular a police department so hollowed out by corruption that even the attempt to solve the death of one of its own is met with insurmountable doubts. Its her second documentary since 2017sBaltimore Rising, which chronicled the uprising in Charm City that followed Freddie Grays death. And thats also once I found the journalists that were already working on the case, and they were interested in allowing me to follow them. She comments: Everybody walks away from the film seeing that the suicide implication is pretty serious and, if youre going to imply that, then youd better have really stiff, unshakeable evidence. It hasnt escaped David Simon and George Pelecanos, the creator and a producer of The Wire, who have returned to their geographic and rhetorical turf with We Own This City, beginning on HBO Monday. Reinaldo Marcus Green directs and serves as executive producer. The two men were sent to prison for crimes they did not commit. The cast and crew explore Baltimore as a character, touching on the real people and locations portrayed in the series. At the center of it all lies a fallen officer and the complexities of life in one of the most investigated police departments in the country, where impropriety appears to penetrate a broken system at every level. The leader of a rogue Baltimore police unit sobbed as he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in a corruption scandal prosecutors called "breathtaking". English, Singapore He was law enforcement. Sohn was born to an African American father and Korean mother who met after the Korean war. Fenton, who reported on the trial, recalls: Through the people cooperating and telling the truth, we gained a new level of understanding of how these things work that I dont think weve had previously. English, The Netherlands He and members of the GTTF framed the two men that Jenkins had been pursuing by planting drug evidence. I can make a movie. Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor. The crime drama series is based on Justin Fenton's 2021 nonfiction book of the same name and stars . English, English Speaking Africa The streets, the drug houses, the cops pursuing petty busts to drive up their stats you can almost hear the voice telling you to keep the devil way down in the hole. FLORIDO: The officer shot that day in 2017 was Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter. But then things get messy when it's reported that Suiter was killed just a day before he was supposed to testify in a case against several fellow officers accused of corruption. Washingtonian spoke with Sohn last week about her new joint. 388K views 4 years ago #AlJazeeraEnglish #BaltimorePolice It's been three years since Baltimore erupted in a series of protests over police violence, exposing deep divisions between the city's. Dominic West went on to play Prince Charles in The Crown; Wendell Pierce took on Willy Loman in a London stage production of Death of a Salesman; Idris Elba starred in Luther, Thor and Cats; Michael K Williams burned brightly in Boardwalk Empire and others before his jarring death in September. Maurice Ward recounts how Jenkins remained unscathed despite several illegal incidents. I was asked by an HBO executive if I was interested in pursuing this topic, if maybe there was a certain kind of perspective or access that I had to offer. Its like someone describing how they first stole money. Filmmaker and actress Sonja Sohn of "The Wire" returns with the follow-up to her 2017 documentary"Baltimore Rising." The new film, titled "The Slow Hustle," looks to be an equally powerful look. Pelecanos and Simon also serve as writers. And hes the worst officer doing the worst things.. The HBO drama is based on Justin Fentons nonfiction book of the same name. Police stuffing their pockets and rationalizing it as their just dues was the subject of The Shield (itself inspired by a Los Angeles police scandal), which celebrates its own 20-year anniversary this spring. For years its plainclothes officers went on a a crime spree that included robbing people they stopped on the streets, planting drugs and guns on innocent people, invading peoples homes and stealing from them as well as fraudulently charging the city for working overtime. As "The Slow Hustle" (2021 release; 88 min.) English, Romania We Own This City does not do much to explain Jenkins or complicate his villainy, but it is insightful about how a bad cop learns to be bad more effectively (and how he makes his colleagues worse). How, why and by whom has never been solved. It wasnt that we heard about them all the time. Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. info_outline, Includes: Ascension Island, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, St. Helena, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Finland Baltimore prosecutors want greater flexibility to undo convictions after Gun Trace Task Force scandal. HBO Documentary Films presents A Blowback Production THE SLOW HUSTLE director and producer, Sonja Sohn; executive producers, Marc Levin, Kary Antholis, Sonja Sohn; supervising producer, Daphne Pinkerson; producer, Mahrya MacIntire. Through his early years on the force, Jenkins goes from learning how to scam the overtime rules to outright larceny. The more I looked into it, the stranger it seemed. Visitors come to BARCS every day for reasons as diverse as reuniting with lost pets, adopting new furry family members, joining our foster and volunteer programs, and receiving free and low-cost resources to help them keep their pets at home. Here, WWD looks at 11 new documentaries and docuseries to watch in December 2021. Spanish, Mexico There are other theories. Then I thought, okay, heres the possibility of actually solving the case. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. At this point, its a more nuanced game. How is this going to be investigated? None, it seems, let Baltimore get under their skin as much as Sonja Sohn, who played police detective Kima Greggs the first major portrayal of a Black lesbian on American television on the trail of drug lords in the five-season drama. He also learns a sense of entitlement; the seriess title comes from a speech in which he tells his cronies that as long as we put those numbers up by making arrests, they can do what they want. From top left, Daniel Hersl, Evodio Hendrix, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor, and from bottom left, Maurice Ward, Momodu Gando, Wayne Jenkins and Thomas Allers. (And even Pryzbylewski eventually redeemed himself.). We Own This City is based on a book by the Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. Ultimately his death is one of hundreds of unsolved deaths in the city. A still from "The Slow Hustle" courtesy HBO. See production, box office & company info, Undercurrent: The Disappearance of Kim Wall, Bad tidings in the Baltimore Police Department. Beginning November 23 plainclothes unit turned it into a state-run gang so to me, was. 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