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The first season of the show will be based on the novel Hard Revolution, which takes place during the 1968 Washington DC riots.Īll six episodes of We Own This City are directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, who also directed the Academy Award nominated 2021 film King Richard starring actor Will Smith as Venus and Serena Williams' father, Richard Williams. He's also an accomplished novelist and essayist and is currently developing a series for HBO based on his one of his characters, an Ex-cop turned Private Investigator named Derek Strange. Pelecanos was a writer on The Wire and also co-created the HBO series The Deuce with Simon. Simon previously worked as a Baltimore Police Journalist, before turning to television and creating The Wire, which is widely considered to be one of the best TV shows of all time. We Own This City is executive produced and written by Simon and Pelecanos. The We Own This City trailer then features a character played by actor Treat Williams who tells us that "everything changed when they came up with that expression: The war on drugs." He highlights the themes of the series, explaining that with a war comes "police militarization" and "a complete gutting of the fourth amendment." Then another cop in the task force played by actor Darrell Britt-Gibson explains that he's stuck in a unit with some of the most corrupt officers in the department, saying, "there's all this money to be made, and now I'm supposed to play by the book?" From there we see more of Bernthal and his task force taking scores and descending into further corruption before ending on Nicole Steele (Wunmi Mosaku), the civil rights attorney tasked with taking on these corrupt cops. RELATED: Ansel Elgort And Ken Watanabe Descend Into Japan's Crime World In First Tokyo Vice Trailer

Jenkins and his men doing this exact thing, busting into someone's home and lining their pockets with drug money.

He then begins to ask one of his fellow officers, posing the question as a "hypothetical," about whether he would take money found during a raid. Wayne Jenkins, spinning his baton as he walks the streets of Baltimore. The trailer for HBO's We Own This City opens on an ominous image of actor Jon Bernthal, who plays Sgt. Created by David Simon and George Pelecanos, and based on the book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, We Own This City is a six-hour limited series chronicling the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force. HBO has revealed the first trailer for the upcoming limited series We Own This City.