Mosaku’s character, Nicole, is the perfect foil for Wayne Jenkins. The attorney first appears while spectating an act of brutality by a police officer on an unarmed Black man a crowd gathers around the incident to record what is happening.
In an alternate story to the police running rampant, an attorney (Mosaku) for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights section has begun her own investigation into the city’s police corruption. Who wields the power to stop those intended to protect civilians? That is the story we are given in We Own This City. That may not be illegal, but these officers will stretch the limits of the law and bend it to the point of breaking it. A cop then strides up to him and smashes his drink with a baton. The questions the show seeks to ask about what a crime is for a police officer. Welcome to Baltimore, where this is the police mentality to applaud.īrutality is the name of this game, and this show is letting you know that there is a fine line between what is morally acceptable in law enforcement. Last time I checked, aren’t we supposed to win fights?” As he says this, the camera sweeps over Black men on the streets appearing uneasy as the cop walks past.
There’s people who think police brutality is when police win fights. “When you got to fight,” he continues, “you got to win. “All that authority you think you have, it goes out the window when some cat wants to try it,” he says as the camera cuts to a baton twirling in a cop’s hand. A police officer lectures a group of other officers as the camera cuts to the streets of Baltimore. From the get-go, We Own This City establishes its perspective.
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