By Samuel Sasu April 26, 2022. I Got A Monster (2023) Documentary Official Trailer In March of 2017, America's deadliest city was rocked by one of the nation's biggest Police corruption scandals. The city knows that Suiter was going to testify against a group of corrupt cops and there is this history of corruption in the police department in Baltimore, then that lack of trust is amplified throughout this city., So the first theory that folks are thinking is, Of course you guys killed him. How is this going to be investigated? All those season-ending montages seemed to say: No matter how you feel about the end of this or that particular story, the beat goes on. Suiter died just a day before he was due to testify before a federal grand jury investigating an elite Baltimore police unit, part of one of the worst law enforcement corruption cases in recent US history. That is the rumour that sweeps like a wildfire through the city and the fact thats the first theory that erupts says something on a larger scale about what could happen if the police dont get their act together and regain the trust of the people., Sohn adds: To me, what Nicole [Suiters widow] and the family are going through is the microcosmic example of what is happening to all of us, that when public institutions and structures dont get their act together, the people suffer and, in this instance, the family suffers.. All rights reserved. English, Japan Directed by Tiller Russell, The Seven Five examines police corruption in the 75th precinct of the NYPD. Documentary Crime After Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter is killed in the line of duty, the tragedy soon becomes enmeshed in a widening corruption scandal that threatens to unravel the public's already strained relationship with law enforcement. But theres a lot of pushback of course. He lives in Del Ray. THE SLOW HUSTLE follows Detective Suitors widow and local investigative reporters as they work to get answers in the Suiter case and hold the Baltimore Police Department and City Hall accountable. Filmmaker and actress Sonja Sohn of "The Wire" returns with the follow-up to her 2017 documentary"Baltimore Rising." The new film, titled "The Slow Hustle," looks to be an equally powerful look. The cops once reportedly found a gun and a pound and a half of marijuana in an illegal warrantless search. Reports showed that Suiter had been presentand involved in some waywith a 2010 incident in which GTTF members, using unmarked cars, attempted to rob two Black men who subsequently fled the scene, resulting in a car chase and auto accident that killed an innocent motorist. Their solution: They sold the drugs and firearm back onto the street. Having thus stipulated, it would also be absurd to pretend not to notice the connection. The revelation that Suiter was granted limited immunity for testifying didnt clear anything up either; the fact remains that its conceivable he was executed for planning to rat out his friends, shot in a random skirmish gone wrong, or killed by his own hand in order to avoid facing future legal prosecution. Engaging the journalists was, I think, one of the better decisions that I made. This malaise, Sohn points out, goes beyond Baltimore and policing in general. The film will debut on HBO and be available to stream on HBO Max. You get a guy on a wiretap talking to drug dealers about drugs and then you just keep pulling that string.. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: I got one officer down. David Simon returns to a familiar beat for HBO, updating if not improving on an old critique. THE SLOW HUSTLE includes insightful commentary from journalists who remain determined to speak truth to power, including Justin Fenton, author of We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption and D. Watkins, author of We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress who believes the shooting death of Suiter could have been an inside job. So rumors and speculation ran rampant about what really happened to Officer Suiter, not just among residents, but also among politicians, among journalists. English, Taiwan Baltimore and its scandal-plagued Gun Trace Task Force comes into focus in the documentary I Got A Monster, the feature directorial debut of Kevin Abrams. A unit of the Baltimore Police Department, the Gun Trace Task Force, was supposed to target guns and drugs on the city's streets. Sohn cofounded ReWired for Change, a local outreach programme for at-risk youth, and made her directorial debut in 2017 with Baltimore Rising, which depicted the Black-majority city in the aftermath of the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in police custody. Ex-po. But this type of casual everyday lying, stealing, misrepresenting information, in some cases framing people its hard to prove and for that reason it often went unaddressed., The misconduct continued despite the outcry over Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man who died of neck injuries suffered in police custody in April 2015. Dominic West went on to play Prince Charles in The Crown; Wendell Pierce took on Willy Loman in a London stage production of Death of a Salesman; Idris Elba starred in Luther, Thor and Cats; Michael K Williams burned brightly in Boardwalk Empire and others before his jarring death in September. I dont know about the soul, because Nicole is the soul of the film, or maybe Nicole is the heart. The police department is now under federal oversight but the decades-old spectre of corruption lingers. Baltimore prosecutors want greater flexibility to undo convictions after Gun Trace Task Force scandal. See the full cast here. German February 12, 20188:02 PM ET. It tells how a shift in policing strategy in 2007 led to the creation of the GTTF amid concern that police had spent too long pursuing drugs rather than guns. New Study: DC Is One of the Worst Cities for Decent-Size, Affordable Apartments, Baltimore Could Be DCs Hottest New Suburb, Lil Uzi Vert and Ice Spice Will Perform at This Years Broccoli City Festival, Rant About the Books You Hate at This Book Club on H Street, An Ex-Oath Keepers New Book Gives an Inside Look at the Far-Right Militia Involved in January 6, Trucker Convoys Began to Fail Their Way Around DC One Year Ago. I think of Baltimore as my soul home, Sohn, 57, says by phone from North Carolinas Outer Banks. All rights reserved. English, India Spanish, Mexico Bringing Jenkins and his ilk to justice does not mean Baltimores problems are resolved. He was previously with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington City Paper. They are joined by longtime collaborators Nina K. Noble as executive producer, and Ed Burns as writer/executive producer. But at the same time, this was a police officer. The Baltimore dialogue still has Old Bay piquancy, and some strong performances kick scenes to life. The mission of the Black Mental Health Alliance (BMHA) is to develop, promote, and sponsor trusted culturally-relevant educational forums, training, and referral services that support the health and well-being of Black people and vulnerable communities. Many residents in the city, especially in Black communities, just don't trust the police. An independent review board ruled that the 43-year-old detective had in fact shot himself a finding that his family and others vehemently reject. I said, Where were you? And with little apparent will to transform police departments (and their cultures of silence and coercion) or the political institutions that support them, it comes across as a deeply rooted malady for which theres no easy cure. We'll help you live your best #DCLIFE every day, A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Soccer Team That Fought the Great War. Jenkins followed in his fathers footsteps by joining the Marines but happened to leave with an honourable discharge just a month before the September 11 terrorist attacks. I think you identified it perfectly. Or was he an accomplice, on the take just like his boys-in-blue brethren? With no reliable eyewitnesses to the crime, a harried if largely clueless search ensued, most of it predicated on a generic description of a Black man in a dark jacket with a white stripe. Richard Gonzales. Ultimately his death is one of hundreds of unsolved deaths in the city. English, Indonesia WJZ has covered the real-life Gun Trace Task Force investiga. English, The Netherlands The film is about one of the nation's biggest police corruption scandals. Det James Kostoplis testified that, soon after joining the GTTF, he was asked by Jenkins to go for a ride. But day after day, the revelations keep coming. In workplaces across the country, the culture is changing quite a bit. Fenton, 38, who worked for the Baltimore Sun newspaper for 17 years and is now at the Baltimore Banner, a new non-profit newsroom, says: I do definitely wonder if it happens again, if its happening right now, will I know? Baltimore Police officers found guilty in Gun Trace Task Force corruption case. This series may not change the game. A protest of Sean Suiters death in The Slow Hustle. I think Baltimore does what it did to me and its a divine mirror. The Slow Hustle doesnt deliver a definitive resolution to its central question. Maurice Ward recounts how Jenkins remained unscathed despite several illegal incidents. In practice, theyre all about that brutality and then some. Late in the series, she meets with Brian Grabler (Treat Williams), a retired detective turned critic of the department, who makes a Socratic case that the war on drugs has failed. Baltimore is rocked by the Freddie Gray protests. What are little things like constitutional requirement such as probable cause or reasonable suspicion when Jenkins was quoted as saying that some of the advice he got early in his career was, Never let probable cause stand in the way of a good arrest? That says it all, which was the law was a pesky thing that you could ignore if you couldnt avoid it. But then things get messy when it's reported that Suiter was killed just a day before he was supposed to testify in a case against several fellow officers accused of corruption. English, English Speaking Africa (And even Pryzbylewski eventually redeemed himself.). Fenton commented: Every officials talking about reform, reform, reform and you think that all eyes are on the police department and everybodys behaving their best and yet this is going on. Spanish, Colombia I felt alone and I was happy. 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