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- STEVEN LEVIN: Wayne... - [SHUSHES]
I know what I'm doing. [CLICKS TONGUE]
- [INHALES, EXHALES] - [DOOR OPENING]
This proffer session is for purposes of learning
what you, Sergeant Jenkins, can offer to the government
as cooperation in the event
you are offered a plea agreement.
Nothing said today will be entered in the legal record.
It is instead an opportunity for you to let us know
the value and extent of your cooperation,
should we decide to accept your plea
and recommend an agreed-upon sentence
to the judge. You understand?
- I do. - Well then, let's proceed.
Well, first off, I'm innocent.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
LEO WISE: Sergeant Jenkins, uh, there's an old and wise saying
in the federal courts that defendants in criminal cases,
when facing a preponderance of evidence,
are well-advised to cooperate early and often.
The first ones to cooperate get the best deals,
last ones to cooperate get the worst end of the stick.
You are not early here.
Mm-hmm. [CLICKS TONGUE] Look...
I'm not gonna sit in front of you
and tell you that I haven't been around some bad things. I have.
But I can also tell you
that these things that you think that I've done,
these things that you've heard about me, they are false.
Completely false.
Now, is there misconduct in this department?
Of course there's misconduct, but I'm not the one you want.
Sergeant, our investigation is lengthy and detailed,
and the charges against you are corroborated
by electronic intercepts,
as well as a multitude of witnesses.
A multitude? Okay, so, a multitude of witnesses lied.
How about that? Can I ask you a question?
I am one of the most talked-about,
most celebrated officers, history of this city.
Do you not find it odd that now, all of a sudden,
I'm the mastermind in this whole thing?
That doesn't strike you as weird?
They're all lying?
- That's what I said. - ERIKA JENSEN: Mm-hmm.
- In the Burley case alone-- - WAYNE JENKINS: Oh, come on,
on the Burley case. I'm completely innocent on that.
I didn't plant those drugs on Umar Burley. That wasn't me.
- Sergeant Jenkins-- - JENKINS: No, no, no. Hang on.
I know who did that. I know who did it.
And maybe you're right. You know something,
maybe the fact that I knew that information,
I didn't report it at the time.
Maybe I was wrong there, so you got me.
I'm guilty. Hey, you win.
But bottom line is, I did not plant those drugs
on Umar Burley. I didn't do it, wasn't me.
For the sake of argument, you wanna tell us who did?
[DISTANT SIRENS WAILING]
I do not feel like telling you that right now.
But I do know for a fact that it was not Wayne Jenkins
who planted those drugs. That's what matters here.
This proffer is concluded.
What does that mean, it's concluded?
Wait, that's it, you guys just gonna walk away?
Ma'am, you don't have any questions for me?
[SNAPS FINGERS]
[DOOR CLOSING]
♪ ["WE OWN THIS CITY" THEME MUSIC PLAYING] ♪
- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER] - [GUNFIRE]
- Back up. - Back up.
LARRY HOGAN: Baltimore is a poster child
for the basic failure to stop lawlessness.
PROTESTERS: No justice, no peace!
I've heard your calls for no justice, no peace.
PROTESTERS: No justice, no peace!
KEVIN DAVIS: Where there's smoke, there's fire.
These officers, they're 1930s-style gangsters.
♪ ["WE OWN THIS CITY" THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES] ♪
So, Wayne Jenkins actually thinks
his fellow officers are gonna hold the line.
When in reality, they're all in a race
to try to testify against each other.
JOHN SIERACKI: Funny how he made a point of telling us
he didn't plant the drugs
in the Burley case, of all things.
Who would he put it on?
The others who were there and wrote on it?
Ryan Guinn and Sean Suiter.
Well, it's not likely to be Guinn.
He went out of his way to speak up
about all of this years ago.
Sean Suiter?
You know me from headquarters, Sean,
but I've been detailed here to work with the FBI
in public corruption cases.
And Erika here is my supervisor.
The fact is, uh, we've been working this stuff
involving the city plainclothes unit, and...
I know you've seen a lot of people
you work with get arrested.
The thing we want you to know, right off,
is that you're not necessarily a target.
Not necessarily?
ERIKA: Well, right now, we're looking at others,
and we need help with that.
I work murders.
I don't know what you think I could help you with.
Uh, this is from years ago.
Uh, from the time you were working VCID.
SEAN SUITER: Hmm.
Do you remember a car chase
involving a suspect named Burley?
There was a crash, and a motorist was killed.
- Hands! Out of the car! - [PASSENGER GROANS, SOBS]
Jenk, it's on the floor. Right under the seat.
- This was two thousan-- - I remember. Mm-hmm.
SIERACKI: Drugs were discovered in Burley's vehicle
subsequent to the crash.
Your name is on the evidence submission paperwork.
So, what are you saying?
SIERACKI: One of the witnesses claims that you're the one
who planted the drugs on Burley.
We don't necessarily believe this other witness.
Now, this can go two ways, Sean.
Either you know what happened and how those drugs
got into a car that was already searched by officers,
in which case you're a witness.
Or, you become a suspect.
SIERACKI: At this point,
it's our assumption that you are a witness.
Am I gonna lose my job over this?
KEVIN DAVIS: End with the phrase, "Real police work."
- DEAN PALMERE: Real police work. - [PEN SCRATCHING]
KEVIN: Then pick up with the last paragraph.
- Got it. - Read that part back to me.
"A consent decree is not a magic pill.
It is, however, a court-ordered and enforced mandate
that will compel us to make necessary improvements
to processes that have long been neglected.
At times, it will introduce changes
to our organization that may cause anxiety.
Police, after all, do not adjust well to change."
[DAVIS CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
"We must not confuse time-honored traditions
and the growth necessary to improve as an organization.
We must honor our traditions, but not cling to them.
We must embrace changes
that make us better crime-fighters
and community ambassadors."
"Community ambassadors"?
Gimme a break.
"And not dismiss them as contrary
to the notion of real police work."
Good, good. So, that's on the front page from me.
But inside, make sure we run the item
on Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task Force.
Make sure that's in the newsletter too.
- [PEN SCRATCHING] - DAVIS: If I'm gonna sell the consent decree
and change, on the one hand,
I've got to acknowledge the people
who are putting guns and drugs on the table now,
who are doing the job now.
[SIGHS] I don't need those guys slowing down
or doubting themselves. I need them out on the streets.
- [POLICE SIREN CHIRPS] - EVODIO HENDRIX: Stop running!
- MAURICE WARD: Cut him! - HENDRIX: Come here!
WARD: Hendrix, stay on him!
- [POLICE SIREN WAILS] - [ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
- WARD: Don't fucking move. - OFFICER: We got a gun!
- Fuck! - WARD: Hands on the hood.
- Hands on the fucking hood. - Get your fucking hands on the hood.
What you running for, man? You got that gun?
HENDRIX: Saw his gun over here somewhere.
JENKINS: It's in that garbage right there, right under the-- that jacked-up Malibu
- in that garbage right there. - SUSPECT: There ain't no--
- HENDRIX: Yeah, buddy. - Hey, man, we know it's yours.
- Ain't no use in lying. - Yes, sir.
Yeah, we eatin' tonight. We eatin'.
- Good shit, youngster. - WARD: Have a seat. On the curb.
SUSPECT: I carry that for protection, man, that's it.
Sir, sir, sir, is your life in danger?
I'm serious, if your life is in danger, just tell me how.
Tell me how-- I'm happy to look into it.
If someone's trying to hurt you, kill you,
I'll find-- I'll find out who they are.
All right, tell me, I'll get another gun off the street.
- What's going on, sir? How is your life in danger? - WARD: This is 73-45.
Can we get a wagon--
Man, everyone's life in danger, man. It's Baltimore.
You know what? That's a good fucking answer,
I like that. I-- You know what, I like you, man. I like you.
Yo, can I tell someone I'm being locked up, man?
Maybe get this bail going?
Yeah, man, you're good. Where's your phone at?
SUSPECT: Front right. [CLEARS THROAT]
- [WARD GROANS] - SUSPECT: Running from y'all.
Shit, man. Hit four on my speed dial.
Yeah, say what you wanna say. Hang on, let me get this on.
All right, you're good, you're on.
- SPEAKER: Hey, what's up? - Yo, they found a joint in the alley
- and put that bitch on me, yo. - Come on, man! What the fuck are you--
Why the fuck would you do that?
Honestly, man, why would you do that?
Have we been cruddy with you? We ain't cruddy police.
Why would you do that?
We all just saw you throw that gun
with your own right hand. We all just saw it.
We don't get down like that.
Ain't the kind of police work we do.
Can I explain something to you?
If somebody puts a gun on somebody,
and that gun ain't theirs, then that cop,
he gets rolled on, he gets charged.
What you just said on that telephone,
that was very disrespectful.
These men right here, these men, my detectives,
we do things by the book.
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
JENKINS: Shit.
- [POLICE SIREN CHIRPS] - Look, your ride's here, buddy.
WARD: Get your fat ass up.
- Yo, help me with this. - SUSPECT: Fuck, man.
- Dang. Shit, man. - [OFFICERS GRUNT]
Fucking sick of this bullshit. Calling my ass dirty.
WARD: Step up, watch your head.
LEVIN: Wayne. Wayne, listen to me.
The answer is no. All right? Fuck, fucking no. No.
- LEVIN: Wayne-- - What?
- LEVIN: Everyone is talking. - Not every-- not everyone is--
Don't say that. My guys ain't fucking talking.
- So, don't say that. - Everyone.
What are you saying?
[DOOR LOCK BUZZING]
[HESITATES]
You know something, fuck everyone.
All right, well, then I'm going on the stand,
and I'm gonna tell my story,
and my story is gonna hold. How about that?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER FROM HALLWAY]
I'm not a dirty cop.
So, Jenkins is still trying to hold you guys
to staying silent, huh?
He says that video he taped of us opening the safe
is enough to knock your case down.
He was saying that if we all just clam up,
then you feds can't prove nothing otherwise.
Sergeant has lost it, man.
I've been trying to get away from Wayne Jenkins
for a while now.
I mean, at first, it was just about the money,
taking the money. We did that.
We took money all the time. [SCOFFS]
That shit happens all over the fucking department.
Drugs? No.
No, no, no. Nah, that's different.
MOMODU GONDO: The drugs was like a pain in the ass.
A lot of times, we would just get up
on the Jones Falls and toss the dope
and coke out on the expressway. Just... [EXHALES]
Just be done with it.
It's easier than driving down to headquarters
to stand in line and fill out paperwork at ECU.
Not Sergeant Jenkins, though. Not Sergeant Jenkins.
Not Wayne, though. No.
Not Wayne Jenkins. [CHUCKLES]
Oh, shit. Oh.
One time, this motherfucker... This man asked me
if I had any relatives that would sell drugs
if they got their hands on them.
Like, I understand we in the streets doing this shit.
My-- my man, like, that's my fucking family.
What type of cold motherfucker gonna do that?
WARD: I heard him on the phone once
talking to somebody,
and it was like anything you hear on the street.
Just another drug transaction.
Wayne went there, man.
He was that dude.
One time, I come in the office, the Sergeant was in there,
heat-sealing a bag of vials.
I'm talking, this man was re-sealing cocaine.
Why else would you be doing that?
Was he selling the stuff back to dealers?
To Shropshire?
No, I-- I-- I doubt that.
I'd have heard it from Brill.
There was this one guy, though.
He was always showing up places, always partying with Jenkins.
I mean, this dude could literally get keys
cut in any car, or a GPS tracker.
Stuff to, um, bounty hunt, you know?
Friend of Wayne's from out in the county.
Some shady-ass white dude.
Bail bondsman. Donald something.
♪ All right
-♪ I like the way you move... - OFFICER: We got eyes on him.
CHRISTOPHER TOLAND: Police, search warrant!
Get your hands in the air and step toward me.
Hands in the air right now. Let's go, move!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [COMPUTER BEEPS] - [KEYBOARD KEYS CLACKING]
JENKINS: Look, I didn't order him in any way.
He was completely free to refuse.
IVAN BATES: And, Sergeant Jenkins,
your claim is that, in undertaking this car stop
involving Mr. Stevenson here,
you only wanted to speak with him. Correct?
- JENKINS: Yes, sir. - BATES: So, what did you do
when you approached the vehicle, Sergeant?
We followed the rules of probable cause,
that's what we did. And we do that
because we want our case to hold up in court.
See, I've-- I've learned from my past mistakes, Your Honor.
Now, look, we-- we knew initially
we had no cause to detain the suspect.
We had no cause to ask him to exit his vehicle.
So, we-- we, you know, we talked to him.
Purely on a voluntary basis.
BATES: So, where were the other three officers?
They were-- they were positioned on all sides of the vehicle.
BATES: You surrounded the vehicle?
Yes, sir. Look, it's a car stop. You know, it's...
They can go bad. If they go bad, they go bad quick,
so we need to maintain tactical advantage at all times,
purely as a precaution. It's just... That's what we do.
[BATES SCOFFS]
- May I approach, Your Honor? - JUDGE WILLIAMS: Please.
BATES: [SOFTLY] Did you hear what he said, Your Honor?
JUDGE WILLIAMS: I did indeed, Mr. Bates.
Officers surrounding a car. That's pretty compelling.
In fact, I don't see what I can do here
other than consider detention without cause.
BATES: Thank you, Your Honor.
BATES: All right. Hey, man, good luck.
- OREESE STEVENSON: Thank you. - BATES: All right.
[JENKINS GRUMBLING]
I'll catch you later.
Ivan Bates, Ivan Bates. Beat me again, huh?
Well, you know, you lost when you said
- your guys surrounded the car. - [SCOFFS]
- That amounts to an unlawful detention. - Shit.
What about the kilos I seized, huh?
That doesn't bother you?
[CHUCKLES] Nah, man. Fruits of a poisonous tree.
JENKINS: Know something, man?
Easy come, easy go. Fuck it.
Wait. Look, Wayne, look. Hold on a second.
I don't know what you're doing out there, okay?
But everybody tells me the same thing.
- Huh? - You rob, you steal,
and you're taking everybody's money.
Who told you that? What, your client told you that?
Look, he told me you didn't turn in all those drugs, okay?
- Okay, man... - Look, never mind the cash.
But he's not the only one.
- Uh, they're lying. - Wayne, come on, man.
This was a multi-kilo seizure. And my guy had priors.
Stevenson's a big dog.
You ever wonder why this case didn't go federal?
Yeah, think about it.
The US Attorney's Office doesn't want to touch you anymore.
They want nothing to do with you. Why would that be?
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - [WOMAN CHUCKLING]
Well...
there's not a lot I disagree with here,
but, uh, but then you knew that.
What's the mayor saying privately?
Uh, supporting it is one thing, paying for it is another.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Schools. Rec centers.
The city pension fund is always bankrupt.
It's-- it's a poor city.
How about we take half the money the cops burn up
in overtime and court pay and-- and turn that back
into anti-crime and community-based programming?
Hey, hey, hey, I'm on your side, okay?
I know, I just--
DOUG GRABLER: I'm just saying that political will
always falters at the point where
real money gets used to solve real problems.
- Better get ready for that. - [CLICKS TONGUE]
GRABLER: Let me ask you another question,
and please don't take this the wrong way,
but what doesn't this consent decree say?
What do you mean?
GRABLER: Well, I mean, this is an immense document
showing what the police do that is wrong procedurally
and unconstitutional. It cites chapter
and verse, patterns and practices
that violate civil rights at best
and brutalize citizens at worst.
And it represents a lot of hard work
on the part of you and your team.
- So, credit where credit is due. - But?
What is it that you can't say that you need to say?
What is the Justice Department unwilling to admit?
What are the police trying to do?
Arrest everybody. We spoke about this.
- I-- I heard you. - GRABLER: Mm-hmm.
But why? What's the mission?
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA]
- The drug war. - GRABLER: Exactly.
And in a war, you need warriors. In a war, you have enemies.
In a war, civilians get hurt and nobody does anything.
In a war, you count the bodies
and then you call them victories.
Is the Justice Department,
or even the Office of Civil Rights,
ready to declare that we long ago lost this war?
That we've achieved nothing but full prisons,
and routine brutality, and a complete collapse of trust
between police departments and their cities?
I fought this war, Nicole. I was even good at it,
and honest when I did it.
But it was lost when I got there,
and I did nothing but lose in my time,
and the guys who are out there right now
on the street, they all know it's lost.
Are you people ready to say that out loud?
Is anybody?
They warned me about this.
Warned you about what, Ms. Mayor?
- CATHERINE PUGH: The money. This is millions more. - Hmm.
And we're already bleeding out
from all the departmental overtime.
Where does it end?
You read the same consent decree that I did.
What they're asking for isn't going to be possible
without additional budgeting.
The cost of upgrading the video technology alone is...
- John's run the numbers. - I was conservative.
But looking only at what we've agreed to here--
If you look at the overall fiscal budget,
this can only come from schools,
rec centers, and after-school programs--
Those are my babies. It can't come from my babies.
Cut off the overtime pay.
We're 400 positions down right now,
and only one academy class in the pipeline.
You cut overtime, patrol cars go empty.
Then find somewhere else to cut.
Your Honor, we're gonna hit 340 murders again this year.
Crime is up in every category, and I have officers
who won't go out on the street to police
because of the Freddie Gray case.
That is the reality I'm dealing with here.
SHELDON WOOD: It's hard to listen
to the police commissioner plead poverty when we just
paid out a six-and-a-half million-dollar settlement
to the Gray family.
How many new body cameras would that money have paid for?
Look, Mosby's decision
to go beyond the manslaughter case
and charge counts relating to Gray's arrest
has left me with dozens of officers resigning,
and others unwilling to get out of their cars
for fear they'll be charged criminally
if they even make an honest Fourth Amendment mistake.
Now, you're telling me to cut pay
from the guys who are working.
MARY COPELAND: Your job is to keep crime down
with the resources that are available.
And with the money we're spending,
and the crime rate out of control in Baltimore,
it will no longer be available.
No money from my babies. Find cuts.
[PAPERS SHUFFLING]
TARIQ TOURE: So, this is what the city agrees to?
NICOLE STEELE: In full.
♪ [HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING OVER STEREO] ♪
[CHUCKLES] You don't seem impressed.
[SIGHS] What happens if they don't do these things?
I mean, what really happens?
A federal judge monitors compliance.
If they fail to make the promised goals,
or the reforms don't happen,
he can hold the whole city in contempt.
And... then what?
There can be fines,
and the court can issue additional orders
and demand that the reforms proceed.
And then what happens?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] You're asking me
what happens if the police don't want to change.
No, I'm saying that we are the people
the police department hunts, and kills, and captures.
And you are bringing me a piece of paper
that says there's gonna be new rules
on how they can hunt us? [SCOFFS]
[TOURE SIPPING BEVERAGE]
They're giving you spit and chewing gum,
and telling you to keep the whole machine
running with it.
- It doesn't matter. - Sir?
Watch.
I'll be fired before the Gun Trace scandal goes to trial.
They're just keeping me around
just long enough to put that stink on me.
After the last bad headline, I'm gone.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[SIGHS]
- [DOOR LOCK BUZZING] - INMATE: Let's go!
Copper!
- You better open up real quick! - [DOOR SLAMMING]
BATES: [CHUCKLES] Anyone can put a juror to sleep
- with a closing argument. - LAWYER: Tell me about it.
BATES: But when the judge starts nodding off on you?
LAWYER: He needs to retire.
BATES: Anyway, yeah.
So, we'll continue those motion hearings next week sometime.
- Take a look at the calendar. - Sounds good.
Hey, Ivan. Can I talk to you for a sec?
[CHUCKLES] Hey, I'll catch you downstairs in a minute.
LAWYER: Appreciate you, man.
- Wayne. - Yeah. You know, Ivan, I...
I respect you, man.
I just want to let you know that I'm-- I'm done.
Yeah, I'm--
I'm never gonna make another arrest again, Ivan, so--
- BATES: Wait, what? - Yeah. I just...
Fuck this place, man. And fuck all the shit that,
you know, people are saying about me.
I don't care about all that, man.
Just, I-- I got these fucking bosses,
you know, they-- they don't appreciate,
they don't appreciate a fucking thing.
You know, I-- I get 'em all these guns.
I'm taking all these risks, and now I just...
I don't know, man. I'm just-- I'm done.
I'm gonna go on inside, be a lieutenant.
Yeah, I just-- You know, man, I wanted to let you know.
Fuck it. [CHUCKLES] I'm done. See you around.
JEREMY ELDRIDGE: I've done what I can to feel out
the US Attorney on this, and look,
they're saying you're not a target here,
- you're a witness. - Yeah, but what does that mean?
Well, it means they don't think
you planted drugs in Burley's car.
They think Jenkins is their man.
So why grand jury me?
You were at the scene. Even if your testimony only
sets the scene and eliminates you as a suspect,
that's helpful to their case. But here's the thing, Sean,
I've seen proffer sessions and grand jury testimony
where things go sideways because guys didn't anticipate
the things they might be asked about.
Like what?
Let's not be naive.
If you heard that Wayne stole money
or other guys took money, you're gonna have to tell them.
If they ask you, you can't hold back.
[OFFICER WHOOPING]
JENKINS: Serious fucking police work.
Say about four Gs in drug money.
You know something? I'mma call it in like that, dawg.
Hmm.
[SIGHS]
Mr. Stepp, we're from the FBI Public Corruption Squad.
You don't seem surprised.
[CHUCKLES] Would you be?
How do you know Wayne Jenkins, a Baltimore police sergeant?
Well, he's a friend of mine. We hang out.
But that's not what you're here to talk to me about.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] He gave me the drugs I sold.
How-- how much drugs did Jenkins give you?
More than I could sell.
I mean, it was a million dollars' worth to us.
Pure profit. But listen, I'm here to tell you
whatever you wanna know. Just ask me, I'll cooperate.
Although, you did miss the cocaine.
- We did? - DONALD STEPP: Mm-hmm.
Well, where was it?
Well, it is under the baseboard radiator
in the laundry room. Three kilos.
TOLAND: Appreciate that. Truly.
STEPP: No problem.
VANITA GUPTA: Do you realize what you're asking?
Until there is a change in national drug policy,
I mean, a complete overhaul,
do you see how impossible it would be
for us to issue a report?
- But without that, we-- - GUPTA: We do what we can, Nicole.
We address what we can. We change what we can.
But even the Office of Civil Rights,
as high-minded as we think ourselves to be,
is still a part of the Justice Department.
And at this point,
federal drug laws are what they are.
But then everything in the Baltimore report
is about a symptom.
You don't think we've had these same conversations?
All the way to the top?
Beginning with the second term, Holder told all the US Attorneys
to reduce the federal intake of drug defendants.
And we did that.
So, instead of fixing the laws,
we just quietly work around them,
until we can't?
Now we're out, Trump is in,
and Jeff Sessions wants to arrest everyone he can
for fucking marijuana possession!
I-- I'll never make it four years. I...
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - I made sure you were protected.
You're not a political appointee,
you're in a civil service posting.
I mean, I can't bear to sit on my ass for four years,
maybe eight, while this entire office
is shut down by these assholes.
[SIGHS] Tell me I'm wrong.
Tell me the entire Civil Rights Division
isn't dead in the water under this new administration.
- [INSECTS CHIRPING] - [CLOCK TICKING]
[SNIFFLES, EXHALES]
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
[CLATTERING]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
- If I give you eleven hundred dollars... - [CAR TIRES SCREECHING]
...you're supposed to give me eleven hundred dollars' worth. I don't give a fuck where--
[POLICE SIREN WAILS]
SCOTT KILPATRICK: Antonio Shropshire.
Who y'all?
Baltimore County narcotics, but it's a federal warrant.
- Federal, huh? - DAVID MCDOUGALL: Yeah, we've been up on you
for like a year and a half, so, uh, it's a real pleasure
to finally meet you in person.
Can't say the same. What's the warrant for?
- KILPATRICK: Conspiracy to distribute. - OFFICER: What do we have here?
- Oh, look at that. - See, that's just bad luck right there.
Had it in my pocket 'cause somebody complained
- and handed it back to me. - That's very sloppy, Brill.
Bless your heart. You wanna call your fiancée
- and let her know what's going down? - Yeah. Her number, 4-4...
- No, no, I got it. - [CHUCKLES]
Y'all got me on a tap, huh?
RAMONA: [OVER PHONE] Hey, boo. Why the hell you wake me up?
Y'all motherfuckers cruddy, yo.
Y'all know I got popped by the city last week, right?
Yup, Gladstone's squad. We got a superseding indictment.
Y'all working hard here, but if I were y'all,
I'd get rid of the shit you just took off me.
Use an informant or some shit like that
to put it on the street. Get something nice
for your wives. Shit, Gladstone took it.
I shit you not.
So, looking at Sergeant Keith Gladstone,
we not only have the fact
that Shropshire told county police
that Gladstone took and resold seized narcotics,
but the fact that he extensively worked with Jenkins.
Kind of an early mentor.
And if we look back far enough, we come across this.
Keep in mind that in searches of unmarked units,
after our arrests of Hendrix and Rayam,
we also found several BB pistols.
DEREK HINES: BB guns?
Hendrix told us they carried them routinely
in case of a bad shoot with an unarmed suspect.
So, we go backwards, looking for cases
involving injuries to the suspect,
recovered BB pistols, and, sure enough,
we find a weapons case with a pursuit
and serious injury to the suspect,
one Demetric Simon.
SIERACKI: Jenkins and another officer are giving chase
until Jenkins actually runs the kid over
in his unmarked car,
claiming that the suspect pointed a gun at him.
A BB gun is later recovered from under a parked car nearby,
and lucky for us,
one officer who was there when the gun was found
is none other than Ryan Guinn.
- Refresh my memory. - Guinn is the plainclothesman
who was an early informant on this case,
and who we know to be clean.
But Guinn now tells us that none other than Keith Gladstone
showed up at this scene, unannounced,
and said openly to Wayne Jenkins...
"It's over by the truck."
HINES: Is Gladstone still on the street?
He retired quite suddenly.
A few weeks after we started
locking up other plainclothesmen.
[INHALES, EXHALES DEEPLY]
- [COMPUTER BEEPS] - [KEYBOARD KEYS CLACKING]
JENKINS: I'm done, LT. I'm done.
Done with Gun Trace, dealing with all this bullshit.
Now, look, there's this opening in warrant apprehension.
I want it.
- Warrant apprehension? - JENKINS: That's right.
[CHUCKLES] Wayne, are you kidding?
Is this-- is this a joke?
I put my ass on the line.
I-- I get all these fucking guns for command,
and then they go on and they... I...
Fuck it. I'm just, I'm-- I'm-- I'm done.
No one is gonna be happy about this.
Not the Colonel, not Deputy Ops.
Wayne, you went on leave two months ago,
the whole task force went to sleep.
Bosses noticed. They want you back working.
You know what they say about me down at the courthouse? They talk all this shit.
- And I put my head down. - MARJORIE GERMAN: Wayne.
I keep on working.
- You know me-- - Who are you talking about?
I'm talking about the fucking judges
that-- that throw out my cases,
I'm talking about fucking bitch-ass defense attorneys
that-- that-- that say I'm lying.
Wayne, what else is a defense attorney gonna say?
What's the fucking point anyway? Look at what's going on.
I mean, you have the bosses that go along
with this consent decree, soft-ass,
fucking baby-boy bullshit. I mean, how am I supposed
- to police like this anyway? - GERMAN: Right. Uh-huh.
JENKINS: Oh, come on, don't do that.
Don't fucking do that.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
Ugh, come the fuck on. What?
GERMAN: "It should go without saying
that this is an extremely challenging time
for law enforcement nationally.
Officers are questioning themselves,
and their role in society
and the changing law enforcement landscape.
Against this backdrop, I am extremely proud
to showcase the work of Sergeant Wayne Jenkins
- and the Gun Trace Task Force." - [JENKINS SCOFFS]
GERMAN: "This team of dedicated detectives
has a work ethic that is beyond reproach."
- What are you doing? Why are you reading that shit? - It's in the goddamn newsletter.
Right.
Wayne, you can put in for the transfer,
but I'm telling you right now, there is no way we dump you
in the warrants squad when your unit is delivering
the way that it is.
- It's not gonna happen. - [SIGHS] Okay.
- ♪ [CLUB MUSIC POUNDING] - I'm telling you right now, man, I cannot be the one
who loses his job over this shit.
I just can't fucking do it, man.
So now you worried?
It's not that I'm worried. What you motherfuckers
don't understand is, I'm sick and tired
of being the one who's always taking the lead on all of this.
I can't be putting my name on all this shit.
I just-- I can't do it.
Look, I need to just-- I need to lay back some, all right?
You won't believe the shit
that I'm hearing people say, man.
- Down at headquarters, the courthouse. - Like what?
Motherfuckers saying I'm cruddy.
- Like I'm a dirty cop. - [CHUCKLES]
[BOTH LAUGH]
- Ain't you that? - JENKINS: Don't say that. Why...
How could you fucking say that shit?
I'm talking about being like, fucking dirty, for real,
like I'm a bad person. That's my name, motherfucker.
I can't have my name out there like that.
- GONDO: Oh, yeah. - JEMELL RAYAM: Look at ya'll.
- Oh, my goodness. - GONDO: Beautiful. Mm.
- I see you. - RAYAM: Look at this.
- Damn. - Sweetheart, we're good.
- Go on, girl. We're good. - Do not listen to that man.
- Thank you, sugar. - Now you happy?
Just go get me a fucking wine cooler.
The bar's that way. Fuck.
Hey, man, I told you weeks ago about a federal investigation.
You thought I was shittin' you, Wayne?
Man, there'll be no federal investigation.
There's always a rumor of a federal investigation.
That shit never happens, it's Baltimore.
It'd take years to fucking go down.
Look, if they're looking at cops,
they gonna get cops to talk.
We are some snitchin' motherfuckers.
- Bet. - JENKINS: Don't say that.
Nobody's snitching on nobody. It's not gonna happen.
Hey, look, look, here's the bottom line, all right?
Stevenson beat us in court,
so we need to hit his ass again, right away.
Now, we can do this shit, but I'm telling you right now,
I need to lay back some. I do not want my name
on any of the paperwork. It's gotta be you two.
- How big? - Big. Huge.
Two hundred Gs.
- Two hundred Gs? - JENKINS: Yeah.
At least 200 Gs. Shit. We can do this, yo.
We can fucking do this, but it's just gotta
be us, all right? Rest of the squad,
they cannot know about this. We keep this tight.
We keep it close. It's just us. I want your word on that.
- Just us? - That's right.
Shit. Cool.
You mind if I drink this beer and stare at some pussy?
Or is this night all about business?
- I'm trying to, but my man is bugging. - It ain't right. Relax!
- Relax, nigga. Tightened up! - Stare at whatever the fuck you wanna stare at.
RAYAM: Somebody get this man a beer.
Looks like I got a fucking invisibility cloak on me.
Hey, Brandi, can I get a fucking wine cooler?
[DOOR CLOSING]
[SIGHS]
Whoo-hoo!
When's my next chance at a phone?
Can I get a chance at a phone?
You want me to get a hold of what now?
ELDRIDGE: Statement of probable cause
for the search of that car.
Why do we need that, man?
ELDRIDGE: Look, I know Jenkins probably wrote it,
but we should at least know what was in there
since you searched the car, right?
We should look at it before you go into grand jury.
Just pull the probable cause
before you go down to the courthouse tomorrow.
- SUITER: Okay. Okay. - ELDRIDGE: It's due diligence, that's all.
ELDRIDGE: I'm sure it's gonna go okay.
SUITER: Yeah.
- ELDRIDGE: See you tomorrow. - SUITER: All right.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
DAVID BOMENKA: Hey, Sean. You ready?
- You wanna hit another stretch? - SUITER: Nah.
The best information we have
is that she works the area around Bennett,
- near the expressway. - BOMENKA: Yeah.
Maybe today you get lucky.
You know, it's always tough to go back
on a case a year later.
CLERK: Givens, Antonio.
Possession with intent, possession and loitering,
Your Honor.
JUDGE REED: Is a lawyer for Mr. Givens here?
PROSECUTOR: In the hallway, I believe, Your Honor.
Consulting on another case.
Okay. Hold on Givens. Next.
CLERK: Dupont, Jerrod.
Okay, I gotta ask,
what're we doing here in District Court?
- AARON SOLER: Aaron Soler, representing Mr. Dupont, Judge. - Look around.
JUDGE REED: This is an FTA. What is the original charge?
- Look at it. - SOLER: Possession of cocaine
and possession of a handgun, Your Honor.
JUDGE REED: And this is a second FTA?
Bail is revoked.
- Judge, my client-- - JUDGE REED: Save it, Mr. Soler.
You get one bite of the FTA apple.
We've built this machine where half the damn country,
the part with money and power, chew up the other half
that didn't have anything to begin with.
JUDGE REED: Next.
- CLERK: Vinson, DeShawn. - Watch it work.
- If this is what we want... - CLERK: Possession with intent.
- Resisting arrest. - ...then the Freddie Grays,
the Eric Garners, the Michael Browns
are what we get.
- JUDGE REED: How do you plead? - VINSON: Not guilty.
And every page of whatever court order we write...
JUDGE REED: ...I'm going to deny bail at this time.
- ...it won't fix it. - JUDGE REED: Is that the last of the lockup?
BAILIFF: Yes, Your Honor.
I thought you said you didn't make it your everything.
JUDGE REED: Next.
CLERK: Bullock, Keandra.
Possession of a concealed weapon.
Possession with intent. Assaulting a police officer.
So, you even gonna know where to see her?
I got a general description.
- Name of Mary? - Yeah.
No last name. No street name. Just--
Just a street whore named Mary
who knows something about the case.
It ain't much, but it's worth a shake or two, right?
- [SIGHS] - [CELL PHONE RINGING]
- Hey. - ELDRIDGE: Hey, Sean.
I can't talk right now.
- Take a left on Schroeder. - All right.
- Hey, what the fuck was that? - What, you saw something?
Where, down the alley?
[DOOR ALARM BEEPING]
You sure you saw something?
A dude wearing leather, squatting down.
Said you saw a jacket with a white stripe, right?
SUITER: Yeah.
Sean, man, I think we might have seen
that pile of trash right there.
Mistaken it for a guy all hunched over.
Well, he's gone now. Or he's gone to ground.
Let's roll back around and see who's here.
[CELL PHONE CHIMES]
Let's swing back in 20.
In the meantime, let me show you something.
BOMENKA: Sure.
This was my old post, right here.
Seven twenty-three.
- [CELL PHONE CHIMES] - [WOMAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Nothing like your first post, right?
- No. - [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
SPEAKER: What the fuck you doing, yo?
[DISTANT SIRENS WAILING]
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
SUITER: Let's try out the alley one last time.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[STEELE SIGHS]
BRAD ROSENTHAL: Why resign?
Why go that far?
If all you need is a vacation...
Trump's gonna give us that.
Relax, Nic.
[SIGHS] This is about more than that.
Wait a minute. So, my orientation ends
with my advisor telling me we're not doing anything that matters?
- That's what you're saying? - I didn't say that.
Then what are you saying?
[SIGHS]
[INHALES]
I'm saying... [SIGHS]
It's your turn, motherfucker.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[STEELE INHALES, SIGHS]
BOMENKA: Fuck it, Sean, it's 4:30 now.
It's quitting time, ain't it?
[SIGHS]
[DOG BARKING]
BOMENKA: You sure you saw something?
There was movement, yeah.
I saw a guy ducking out of the alley when we pulled up.
Tell you what, you go up and around the corner
in case he makes his way out onto Schroeder.
- All right. - I'll see if he pops out here.
You got it.
[EXHALES]
[INHALES]
[DOGS BARKING]
Stop! Police, stop!
[GUNSHOTS]
Sean!
Sean!
Sean!
This is 70-4-20 Unit calling a Signal 13
at Bennett and Schroeder.
Shots fired. Officer down. My partner is hit!
You kinda mentored Wayne Jenkins
- when he first got to plainclothes, right? - Yeah.
We worked together. I helped break him in.
But, truth is, I wasn't all that close with Wayne.
So, why would you throw away your whole career
to plant that BB gun for him?
I'm talking about the Anntana Avenue incident.
Yeah, I didn't come from the greatest home.
When I was coming up, I had brothers.
We were very close,
and that's how we got through it.
I got out, joined the military, camaraderie again.
Got in the police department, camaraderie. It's just, uh...
Eh, you know, John.
You go into these situations, and there is always
this person right behind you.
So, he called me. Asked me for help. I did it.
And I threw away everything to do it
because I thought he'd do it for me.
So, you thought of him as a brother?
Well, I consider pretty much most police
I ever work with as a brother.
[OFFICERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[BOMENKA BREATHING RAPIDLY]
OFFICER 1: Where the fuck is the ambulance?
OFFICER 2: He can't wait, he's bleeding out!
Fuck the ambo. Get him in the back of a car
and drive him to shock trauma. This can't wait.
OFFICER 3: Get his head. Get his head!
OFFICER 4: Get his shoulders!
- Grab his feet. - OFFICER 3: Everybody, go! Everybody, go! Everybody back.
- OFFICER 4: Move, move! - OFFICER 3: Go, go, go, go, go.
OFFICER 5: Anybody you see, hold 'em.
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
- Description. Height, weight. - Go, go, go!
I didn't see anyone.
- The shooter-- - I got here so fast, man, I...
I could see the gun smoke above him
where he was laying.
I didn't see anybody.
- But you heard the shots. - Yeah, I heard three,
maybe four shots. One of them might have been an echo.
He shouted, "Stop, police." Then the shots.
His leg was still moving when I got here, man.
I was just coming from the corner.
I was here within three to four seconds.
- Where was the gun? - [EXHALES]
Under his right shoulder.
Radio too. When-- when backup got here
and we rolled him, he was still holding
his radio in his left hand.
He's fighting a suspect for a gun in his right hand,
but doesn't drop the fucking radio
- in his left hand? - Or hit the guy with it?
[DOG BARKING]
[PHONE RINGING]
Hines. Yeah, he's here with me.
Wise here.
Jesus. Just now?
Thank you.
Sean Suiter's been shot.
He's in shock trauma.
It doesn't look good. Head wound.
We were gonna grand jury him tomorrow.
He's supposed to report at 11:00.
No reason to assassinate him.
HINES: Half these guys are pleading,
and the ones who aren't are cooked by the ones who are.
Suiter's testimony was in no way critical.
He was told he wasn't a target.
SIERACKI: Rayam's gonna...
name him as taking money back in VCID.
Yeah, but is that enough for him to--
Yeah. For a cop, yeah.
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]
JUDGE BLAKE: And also, the right to be free
from incarceration due to a law enforcement officer's
willful failure to disclose
exculpatory evidence to a prosecutor.
How do you wish to plead to counts one through six
of the superseding indictment?
Guilty, ma'am.
JUDGE BLAKE: Do you agree, sir, that the statement of facts
is correct?
I do, Your Honor, except, there is, uh--
Your Honor, we are agreeing to the statement of facts
with the exception of one correction.
In the matter of the Burley arrest,
he is not acknowledging he planted the drugs,
although he is acknowledging he wrote a false report
with respect to another officer planting those drugs.
JUDGE BLAKE: Noted for the record, Mr. Levin.
We can acknowledge...
We just watched him put that sin on Ryan Guinn and Sean Suiter.
Well, we know it's not Guinn.
And Suiter's not here to defend himself at this point.
Any questions at all, sir, for me or your lawyer
about your guilty pleas
or the terms of your plea agreement?
No, ma'am. Uh, just...
I've-- I've made a lot of mistakes here, Your Honor.
In my life, if I make a mistake, I own it. I say, "I'm sorry."
That's-- that's not gonna cut it today.
I want you to know that,
you know, I feel very bad for the things that I've done.
And, uh, that I've lost my chance to be a father.
To raise my boys.
I'm ashamed of myself, Your Honor. That's it.
LEVIN: Furthermore, Your Honor, I would just like to say
that in the nearly 25 years that I've known Wayne...
- Why would he take that plea? - ...I can without uncertainty tell you
- that this man will learn... - I thought he wanted his day in court?
- ...from his mistakes. - You ask me, it was Stepp,
the bail bondsman.
Once he started talking...
- LEVIN: He will use this experience to do better. - Well,
that means Wayne Jenkins
- isn't just a thief. - LEVIN: Thank you for your time, Your Honor.
- He's a drug dealer. - Worse, they partied together.
Stepp puts him with strippers and hookers.
This way, he stays a family man.
- [GAVEL SLAMS] - BAILIFF: All rise!
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
- [HANDCUFFS CLICKING] - I love you.
DAVIS: This is a dysfunctional police department.
I am telling you, as a person who has seen
what a healthy organization looks like,
- this is not one of them. - [GAVEL SLAMS]
BAILIFF: Will the defendant please rise.
JUDGE BLAKE: Mr. Rayam, considering your cooperation
after your guilty plea,
this court sentences you to 12 years.
REPORTER: Are you blaming this on your predecessors?
Well, this department has had four commissioners
over the last eight years.
So, there hasn't been continuity in leadership here.
- [GAVEL SLAMS] - JUDGE BLAKE: Mr. Gondo,
due to your cooperation after your guilty plea,
the court sentences you to ten years.
- [GAVEL SLAMS] - BAILIFF: All rise.
[HANDCUFFS CLICKING]
This is happening now, on my watch,
and I am taking responsibility as the police commissioner.
[OVERLAPPING REPORTER QUESTIONS]
- [GAVEL SLAMS] - JUDGE BLAKE: Mr. Ward and Mr. Hendrix,
having plead guilty and subsequently cooperated
by agreeing to testify against other officers,
this court sentences you each to seven years.
I've moved to end plainclothes policing,
and we've undertaken a plan
to track the quality of gun cases
to see how they fare in court rather than just tallying stats.
We are already responding.
[OVERLAPPING REPORTER QUESTIONS]
[GAVEL SLAMS]
JUDGE BLAKE: Mr. Allers, you have been found guilty,
and since you've refused to cooperate,
the court sentences you to 15 years.
JUSTIN FENTON: But federal investigators say
this has been going on for years.
Uh, shouldn't the leadership
of the police department have known?
Well, Justin, speaking for myself and my team,
we inherited a culture
that looks at accountability as a four-letter word.
And that's years and years of neglect.
Years and years of chasing after the two H's,
homicide and heroin.
Should someone have known about this kind of corruption?
Absolutely. They should have known.
"They" should have known?
We should have known.
[OVERLAPPING REPORTER QUESTIONS]
[PHONE RINGING]
[SIGHS]
PUGH: Crime is spilling out all over the city,
and we've got to focus.
And while we are grateful for the efforts
of Commissioner Davis and his team,
we need to move forward in a new direction.
Commissioner Darryl De Sousa.
- [APPLAUSE] - Thank you.
Change is coming to the Baltimore Police Department.
And let me make it clear,
I have zero tolerance for corruption.
[OVERLAPPING REPORTER QUESTIONS]
DARRYL DESOUSA: We're gonna be doing proactive,
constitutional policing.
We're going to enforce the laws of Baltimore City.
We're going to be very visible.
We're gonna have positive engagement
with the entire community.
- [SCATTERED APPLAUSE] - [OVERLAPPING QUESTIONS]
Your Honor, as a point of law, it's Mr. Hersl's contention
that he is not guilty of the charge of extortion
for taking money from citizens subsequent to their arrest.
JUDGE BLAKE: No?
WILLIAM PURPURA: He was responsibly taking that money
as an agent of the state, Your Honor.
His crime is instead that of failing to deliver that money
to the Evidence Control Unit.
Therefore, he is guilty only of theft,
not of extortion or conspiracy.
JUDGE BLAKE: Novel defense, Mr. Purpura.
[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
[DOG BARKING]
[POLICE SIRENS CONTINUE WAILING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER POLICE RADIO]
[AMBULANCE SIREN CHIRPS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER POLICE RADIO]
♪ [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
- [COMPUTERS BEEPS] - [KEYBOARD KEYS CLACKING]
JENKINS: Police, search warrant.
♪ [HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING OVER STEREO] ♪
RESIDENT: Motherfucking police!
- JENKINS: Get the fuck out. - Shit!
- HENDRIX: Police! - Hands behind your back.
- Get on the floor. - Down! Down!
What I just say? Get on the fucking ground.
Let's go! Anybody on the second floor?
- Your mother is. - Anybody on the second floor?
- OFFICER 1: Baltimore police! - JENKINS: Let's go. Who's upstairs?
OFFICER 1: Baltimore police, search warrant.
OFFICER 2: Wayne, we got a door left.
JENKINS: No, no, leave that with me. That's mine.
Take the hall.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER POLICE RADIO]
OFFICER 3: Keep moving.
- Oh, we got it, Sarge. - JENKINS: All righty. Come on.
Let's go. Search that closet right there. Yeah?
Dag, boy. Right where your man said.
Big fucking Wayne.
Oh, Hendrix, I think I'm getting an erection, man.
Big fucking Wayne!
JENKINS: That's what I'm fucking talking about.
- HENDRIX: You my man, yo. - This shit ain't stopping.
Check it out. Go through that.
What's that?
Yo, we should... Oh, my God. Oh, shit.
What you got, Wayne?
♪ [OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
HENDRIX: Wayne, what you looking at?
What?
We about to eat, motherfucker.
Shut that door. Shut the fucking door.
That's it, put your foot on it. Stay in front of that shit.
Stay in front of it. Good, good, good, good.
Stand right there. I got you. Oh, shit.
We eating this, motherfucker.
We eatin', motherfucker, that's what's up.
That's what I'm talking about.
JENKINS: Yeah.
Make sure you put your foot on the fucking door.
You shitting me? I'm fucking bitches.
I don't give a-- I can do what the fuck I wanna do.
[SCOFFS] Niggas was hating on me too.
All right. [SHUSHES]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
- [EXHALES] - [HENDRIX CLEARING THROAT]
- [CLEARS THROAT] - Jackpot, motherfuckers! Whoo!
[CELL DOOR OPENING]
OFFICER 1: Come on.
You got a half-hour of daylight all to yourself.
OFFICER 2: Your time to shine, Jenkins.
OFFICER 1: Sooner we get you to gen pop,
sooner we can stop babysitting your ass.
[SCOFFS] Go on and bring it.
[DOOR LOCK BUZZING]
- Three-ten to control. - OFFICER 3: [OVER RADIO] Copy.
- We got one for the yard. - OFFICER 3: Clear.
You that cop from Baltimore, right?
Fuck, yeah. Best they had.
[INDISTINCT INMATE CHATTER]
INMATE 1: That's that fucking cop!
INMATE 2: He out there, yo.
What's going on, LT?
- GERMAN: You ready for them? - You know. I was born ready.
[CHUCKLES] I'm glad you pulled back that transfer request.
[SIGHS]
- And so are the bosses. - Good.
- Let's kill 'em dead. - Got you.
That's the other thing with being brutal,
not only does it get in the way of getting good cases,
but beating on people,
you're gonna get IAD complaints, files.
Maybe even a reputation, get enough complaints,
get transferred out of your unit.
And even if you can write your way out of the hassle,
most police worth a shit can write
their way out of pretty much anything.
Look, it just-- it gets you the kind of attention
that only makes it harder to do the job.
If beating on people made cases, shit,
I'd tell you, "Go out there and kick everybody's ass,"
but it just-- it does not work.
So, if that's the kind of work you wanna do,
I'm gonna tell you right now,
you're not coming anywhere near my unit.
Gun Trace Task Force, we are not about that bullshit.
Make no mistake.
We're about getting guns and drugs.
We're about getting the motherfuckers
that deal the drugs and shoot the guns.
That's what we do. That's what we deliver.
Gun Trace Task Force, we get those guns,
and we put 'em on the table.
We get that dope, and we put it on the table.
My unit took 132 guns off the street
in nine months of work. We got 59 cases charged.
Every single one of those went up to Calvert Street.
During that time, we kicked in 45 doors.
We got in over a kilo weight of dope and coke.
Not to mention the pills and all else. We took all that,
and we put it on the table. That's what we do.
That's what we deliver.
That's the job.
And you take care of each other.
I'm proud of you.
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- Yeah, everybody! [LAUGHS] - [CHEERING CONTINUES]
Who wants to get some?
I wanna fucking get some! Let me hear it!
Who wants to get some?
OFFICER: [OVER PA] B-16. 10-78. Code 17.
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