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Hay -- montrell haygood, here working as a fest tore yall assistant with the garden church right here in west baltimore, although from georgia outside of atlanta. only a year and a half ago that you came to this area. you have seen the hardships, disparities, every day reality for people that live there >> it was a culture shock. i am from barnsville georgia, rural south. so only experience i had with baltimore was that that i saw on the it. ville show "the wire." so when i moved into west balan...

Ability. you could say this is what they do this is how they are trained, this is how they react. from a defense perspective, maybe they are not adequately trained. maybe they engage in an activity which they felt they needed to do to bring him under control and werent doing anything intentional. maybe its just negligence. whether they carry the day is another matter. >> thank you so much. well check back with you later on. again, people are starting to stream into the park here right outside ci...

>> i think theres going to be moving up the food chain. thats where it gets difficult. its harder when you get to somebody who has more power and influence than a couple officers that are on the beat. thank you to you both. up next well talk to a star of a show that showed baltimores grittier side years before this past weeks protest. the wire. its up next. i dont. she couldnt really hear me. i tell her how much she means to me. but she thinks i said she was always mean to me. i could hear how...

People they were designed to protect. the frustration and despair of individuals who try to resist those institutions and push against them to change. it used compelling narratives to explain the complex ways in which systemic failures at every level from the war on drugs and industrialization and disfunctional politics helped to replicate inequality for the citys most marginalized people. in fact the real reach of the show was so influential that then-senator barack obama declared "the wire" to...

Walking through the city for about an hour and hour and a half. >> it was a jubilant crowd. somewhat defiant. some of the messages were defiant. it was peaceful the whole way, and people on the sidewalks were expressing their solidarity even if they werent willing or able to join. as you said, there are several thousand people here at city hall. you can see many rallies this week in baltimore, but this is by far the largest one that i have seen this week in baltimore. im joined by one of the fol...

Lack of legitimate economic opportunity and then wed like to feel like theres nothing we can really do so theres nothing we are required to do. were joined by sonya who played the detective on "the wire." the baltimore that america saw through "the wire" and the baltimore that america saw this week through the news medias coverage of baltimore, everything weve learned this week how much overlap is there in your mind? >> i think that to be honest with you, i think post monday night the baltimore ...

Long before protests and social unrest attracted the attention of the news media to baltimore this week the city occupied a space in the public imagination informed in large part by a tv series that has been called the greatest television show ever. viewers of "the wire" during its original run on hbo more than a decade ago or those who discovered and binge watched the show since it first aired think they know baltimore through the lens of the shows raw nuanced and intimate portrayal of the city...

We would not have had monday night if there was no truth to that depiction. so you know we have the rare occasion where we have police and community members hugging, but look what it took. now, there are a lot of really good people in baltimore, activists, organizers teachers community members who really care about their communities but theyve not been supported and given the resources to transform that city in the way that they want to. so what you saw was them riding the tide of this one city ...

Power, wi-fi and streaming entertainment. thats... seize the journey friendly. welcome back to our special extended weekend coverage. im francis rivera. for many americans, their first glimpse inside baltimore wasnt this week but more than a decade ago when hbos award winning series "the wire" debuted in 2002. while it was a fictional series, the wire did take a real look at a complex relationship between the police, the community, and poverty in the city of baltimore. this week, "the wires" c...

Poverty, there was some overlap between what was depicted on "the wire" and what we saw prior. >> its interesting. you are saying this week seems to have ended on a hopeful note coming together. i was seeing scenes last night of police hugging protesters and warm feelings between them. so it was encouraging. it does occur to me when you think back to "the wire," i have to say that the message from "the wire" was at least a hopeless one. when i watched the show it was explaining, hey, this is the...