HBO Will Premiere A Six-Part Miniseries Chronicling Baltimore Cop Corruption On April 25

By Christina Sturdivant Sani ● Policing ● February 17, 2022

What’s happening?

“We Own This City,” a six-part miniseries chronicling the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force is premiering on HBO on April 25, reports Mary Carole McCauley for The Baltimore Sun.

Who will be featured in the show?

Among other characters, the show will portray Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to crimes such as robbing citizens and seized drugs to be resold and former Det. Sean Suiter, who was fatally shot in 2017, a day before he was slated to testify regarding allegations of planting drugs at the scene of a fatal crash.

Anything else I should know?

Filmed in Baltimore last fall, the series is based on a book by former Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton and created by the duo behind “The Wire” David Simon and George Pelecanos.

You can read more here.

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Christina Sturdivant Sani

Christina Sturdivant Sani is a writer and editor who has contributed to nearly two dozen publications including Washington Post, the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, and Bloomberg’s CityLab.

At Bloc by Block News, Christina is responsible for setting and implementing the vision for the cooperative’s editorial initiatives. In this role, she’s intentional about amplifying the voices of people—both writers and subjects—who have historically been silenced by white-led media outlets.

Christina is also a podcast junkie, audiobook lover, coffee shop connoisseur, and proud Washington, D.C. native. She studied print journalism at Hampton University.

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Christina Sturdivant Sani

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