We Own This City Trailer Shows Jon Bernthal In New Role As Corrupt Cop

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HBO has revealed the first trailer for the upcoming limited series We Own This City. 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.

The trailer for HBO's We Own This City opens on an ominous image of actor Jon Bernthal, who plays Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, spinning his baton as he walks the streets of Baltimore. 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. We then see Sgt. Jenkins and his men doing this exact thing, busting into someone's home and lining their pockets with drug money.

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The WeOwn 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.

We Own This City is executive produced and written by Simon and Pelecanos. Simon