Female BLM Supporter: The brotha Freddie Gray. He got murdered by police by these pigs. You know; for being a black man in America. What's going on out here. It's...it's a joke. You got these crackas walking around with us, acting like they in solidarity. It's not about that. You know; they talking about All Lives Matter. Fuck that. All Lives don't matter. Black lives matter and the only lives I'm concerned about are African lives. Black lives. People of African-descendent.
In a police station, several African-American men who are looting are seen being placed under arrest.
Desk Clerk: Sir, I need your name and birth date down here....
Baltimore Civilian: He's sixteen...he doesn't belong in here!
Desk Clerk: Maybe you should raise your boy stay at home and not commit vandalism....
Cross, Ford and Gibbons walk into the police station, just as Cross waves to the desk clerk.
Cross: Corporal!
Desk Clerk: Cross! Sergeant Cross! Homicide detective wants to talk to your unit....
Cross: They say why?
Desk Clerk: I don't know, dude, but go talk to him.
Cross: Alright. Let's go, boys.
Cross, Ford and Gibbons walk their way through the crowded police station.
Desk Clerk: I said move back from the goddamned counter.
Police officers use canine unit to sniff out drugs on the arrested African-American Baltimore civilians.
Thug: Ain't gonna find nothin in there, homey!
Farley: Hey! Y'all need to keep a better eye on your prisoners!
A civilian grabs Cross's arm, who immediately pushes him back.
Baltimore Civilian: Come on, brother man!
Cross: Back the hell off. I ain't 'brotha', west side nigga......for Christ sakes. Goddamn kindergarten up in this bitch.
Ford purposely kicks a civilian sitting on the ground.
Civilian: The fuck, pendajo?!
Ford: Oops....
Bowers, a Caucasian-American male homicide detective, stops Cross.
Bowers: Cross....Cross...I need you for a moment.
Cross: Me and the boys?
Bowers: No, no. Just you.
Bowers speaks to Ford and Gibbons.
Bowers: You two wait.
Bowers pulls Cross into the office, where two other individuals are standing in.
Bowers: Guys...out....out for a moment.
Quentin: I'm doing an interrogation here...
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Tales of Baltimore (2020)
General FictionIn 2015, during the riots and protests of Baltimore city, police and National guardsmen respond to an apparent shooter in a White Marsh hotel, resulting in a vicious crime being committed amongst several of the occupants of the hotel. R for Strong B...