I like how instead of just editing "Ride of Valkyries" over the scene which would have been cheesy, they have Rawls play it therefore making him look like a douchebag.
That's how most music is handled on the there's hardly ever any music during scenes unless it's coming from a radio or the like. The only exceptions I can think of are the season finale montages.
Colvin says how drug war was the end of real police and it's become militarized in so many words in a different episode. Foreshadowing this scene. The whistle and commanding "over the top" reference to ww1 then helicopters with dance of the valkyries a reference to apocalypse now. Damm what great writing in the legend show
Yep. There was a police funeral in Baltimore maybe 7 years ago and the police from city and country lined 83 N from the interchange to the Cockeysville exit. I was driving south and I remember passing multiple vehicles I can only describe as armored personnel carriers. A few years later I went to a Billy Joel concert at Camden yards and walking back to my car I passed squads of police with military grade weaponry wearing tactical gear. It bothers and scares me that our "civilian" police forces look more like an occupying army than a civilian law enforcement force.
Wrong twice. We don't have armored vehicles. The police have armored vehicles. We're on the wrong end of the nightstick there. And it has nothing to do with those incidents. That may be their justification but it's not the real reason. As the previous commenter said, the cops have become an brutal occupation force suppressing the common people. Given that in many parts of America the police evolved from slave patrols and strike-breakers, this should hardly be suprising. But the war on drugs has taken it to another level.
@@brianleap5830 In a small town just outside OKC with a population of less than 10,000 (I'm surprised it's even that much; it seriously feels like a place that might have 5,000 people at best), they have one of those armored personnel carriers. This is one of those towns where 90% of everything is on one street & it's out in the country to begin with. But for some unknown reason, they basically have a tank. There's no tank level threat out there, lmao.
When Herc said "Bout Fuckin Time" .. You can tell from Carver's reaction he did not want Hamsterdam to end .. He just wanted the streets to be safe and the murder rate to drop .. He knew for exonerating Hamsterdam shit was gonna be as bad as it was before ..
@@bhunji1850 Imagine being a police officer and only arresting street kids forced into drug dealing by the end of a gun, instead of wondering how and who controls the supply of drugs, all cocaine comes from south america but its everywhere in the world, 70-90% of ecstasy/mdma comes from holland but somehow its also everywhere.
+gunterdak Bodie claimed entrapment cause they caught him on the wire, when bubbles was recording him ordering the re-up. But he got out of it because he was slinging in hamsterdam. everyone arrested in the hamsterdam raid probably didn't get a charge, it was all for show. When they're at the BPD later, Lester points out all the people in bracelets and says "here's everyone we caught on the wire", so they only charged people relevant to the Barksdale wiretap.
MoRiellyMoProblems Uh, thats half right, I guess. Its not entrapment if police simply provide opportunity to commit a crime that you were already inclined to commit. But there are scenes in this season where uniformed officers tell people to go sell drugs in hampsterdam, and promise that they won't be arrested for it. That is literally the EXACT definition of entrapment, even if all those people were regular drug dealers.
gunterdak It's not just half right, the whole point of entrapment is that you're committing a crime that you otherwise wouldn't have outside the circumstances. Hamsterdam wasn't turning law abiding citizens into drug dealers and dope fiends, those people were already deep into that life. They were criminals before, and they're criminals after.
MoRiellyMoProblems The fact that those people were all career criminals or habitual drug users does not mean that they cannot be entrapped. You don't get arrested for just generally being a criminal. You get arrested for committing a specific offense at a specific time and place. The definition of entrapment, according to the supreme court, is when an official, acting under real or apparent authority, tells someone something is not illegal, then later arrests them for it. While in this case, the police did not exactly say it was legal to sell drugs, they did use overbearing tactics to convince people that it was acceptable to sell there, and ensured that no one would be arrested. The police, in uniform, drove people to hamsterdam, told them it was ok to buy and sell drugs there, and watched them do it. When the dealers were reluctant, uniformed cops INSISTED that they sell there. They even used threats and coercion. All of that would go a long way in an entrapment defense.
Rawls is such a piece of shit. Deeply-rooted feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing on account of his homosexuality and failure to advance in his career lead him to spread pain and misery for his own pleasure. There is no better illustration than blasting Ride of the Valkyries here. In Apocalypse Now, that song is played when the Americans roll in and massacre an entire village just to root out enemy combatants. It's genocidal, and Rawls, completely missing the point of that scene, plays the song like the jingoistic bully he is.
I swear Rawls fits the role of a supervisory police officer so accurately it's scary ! He should have been made deputy in the B-More police just for playing his role so perfectly !
the references to World War 1 and the Vietnam War are fitting of course given the historical relationship between Baltimore's black community and the city's police department, the latter often being regarded by the former as akin to an invading army. This is why the Wire is so important and just so damn good. It has no equal.
The phase "over the top," in regards to the trenches of WW1. Vietnam reference was the song and the line "outstanding, red team outstanding. Get you a case of beer for that one." Which both were from the Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now.
I made it through the first two seasons without shedding a tear. Then when I got to the destruction of hamsterdam I lost it. I knew it was coming, but seeing it happen just made me sick.
Hamsterdam was one of the best ideas in the history of TV law enforcement, with a second being Vic Mackey's idea of one drug dealer in place with no competition drastically drops murders. The streets were clear and clean during Hamsterdam. The neighborhood returned to luster and people could walk the streets safely again. Fking brilliant
@@thenewadventuresofhenry6998 Who gives a shit about one block? There are more unoccupied houses currently standing in the US than there are homeless people forced to live on the streets. That astounds me more than the idea of Hamsterdam
@@JimmySteller - I think that was his point. Despite all the positives, lowered general crime rate at minimal cost, the system can't let a free zone exist because "Controlled and confined crime is still crime"
@@Red_Beard2798 it's easy to say when ppl saying it aren't from bad areas. No matter what the cops do the dealers and gangs will always be here. This idea literally made them all leave. I would love to see my neighborhood ridded of all the dealers. It would literally be heaven. The addicts will get their drugs nomatter what you do. Lock them up or anything. This move made them all go one place. Imagine kids not having to see addicts and dealers while they walk to school like ppl that live in middle class areas get to have it.
Colvins idea was great. Drugs are always gonna sell, you can only fight the harm it brings by taking it to someone secluded. Colvins approach in general helped us see a modest relationship between the community and the police. Damn you Rawls.
Rawls just executed orders here. The media were putting pressure and due to the election, the gouvernement had to take action because it harmed their image. It doesn't matter if hamsterdam was a good idea, it just mattered if it looked good to the public/ for the police chiefs.
Me personally I'll never understand how anyone can ever be against legalizing or at the very least decriminalizing drugs. Maybe not all of them cause there's always going to be a new dangerous drug coming out but stuff like marijuana,crack/cocaine,heroin,pain pills/opiates,psychedelics like mushrooms and maybe even meth though that one is debatable. Its like with cigarettes being legal. Just because they are legal doesn't mean more people will smoke. Even if they were illegal then there would become a big black market for them. Big pharma lobbies to keep drugs illegal and so do the alcohol industry and dont get me started on alcohol a drug that does its fair share of destruction. I'll never understand why they don't control everything and tax everything and thus make alot of money for our communities but also keep everything safer and much more manageable. Also prisons and jails are full of people in there over drugs or alcohol and incarcerating people is big business and charging fines and court costs bring in alot of money. Its all corrupt there's alot of money to be made from arresting drug addicts and fining them and keeping our jails packed. When will people realize that there will always be addicts and drug dealers and drugs? Than people who make sure it stays illegal are probably the ones making the most money and helping to bring it in,working with cartels and taking lobbyist money. It's all a bad joke
I think Ride of the Vylkeries speaks to what bunny was talking about the whole time, how the cops vs dealers had turned into a litteral war, with the cops just occupying baltimore instead of trying to improve it. Rawls is playing Ride of the Vylkeries and says "over the top gentlemen!" As a reference to Apocalypse Now, and he is Colonol Kilgore. I could almost see Rawls saying sadly "some day, this wars guna end"
Bunny Colvin could have raided and closed down Hamsterdam himself the day before he presented his stats to Rawls and Burrell. Then he could keep the great stats, cleared Hamsterdam temporarily, kept his major's pension and there would be nothing Rawls or Burrell could do to him. But he was such an honorable man and the scriptwriters wanted Bunny punished.
But that would send a messege to the dealers that Hamsterdam isn't actually safe to conduct their business. They'd just go back to their usual corners around the city to do the same thing which will probably lead to an uptick in drug violent related offenses
I love this scene because what's being portrayed is a literal war. Everything included but the deaths lol (most drug addicts would probably prefer death then to withdraw in prison anyways). That's probably the reason for the music, they really wanted to get over the whole "war" feel. Cops were straight up punching women, taking people off their toilet's butt naked.
In the DVD commentaries they talk about the whole subtext of series 3 being about war. Culminating in that scene between Avon and Slim where Slim says "Even if it's a lie, we fight on that lie"
@@flisko123 that's 100% him. Pretty funny to see. They reused characters like that somewhat often, I believe chris was a cop in the background during season 1
@@nononono12345 yeah, if you go back to the first episode you can see him looking at the camera czcams.com/video/BRNm21GWEJY/video.html go to about 3:31
@@Vid3oG4mers wait.... they did give up the murderer. I remember him turning himself in. That definitely wasn’t the reason why it got shut down. It got shut down because it got leaked to the press. You the one that didn’t watch the show 🤦🏾♂️
"Over the top, gentlemen!" and the "Ride of the Valkyries" tie back to Colvin's earlier conversation with Carver--that policing and soldiering aren't the same thing, and that police work was ruined when the line was blurred.
The Hamsterdam experiment was doomed from inception. Drug abuse, drug selling, drug addiction and failed policing are symptoms, not the problem itself. The problem is generational poverty. Hamsterdam has the physically, mentally and psychologically most vulnerable people concentrated one area. Even the majority of the dealers are poorly educated, operating off primal instinct and being manipulated by higher ups. We saw in the second season that the white working class was bring drawn into the cycle by the lack of jobs, education and community stabilizing resources. Colvin could only do what he knew, lock up the worst part. He never thought twice about all of the kids trapped and doomed in his freezones... This series is so great
This really well proves the point Colvin was making to Carver; "You call this a war and pretty soon everybody's running around acting like warriors. They'll be running around on a damn crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up the bodycount." And what's Rawls doing? Acting like a World War 1 officer, ordering his men over the top to storm the enemy trenches.
I'm from Chicago Heights Illinois about 30 minutes south of downtown Chicago next door to Chicago Heights is Ford Heights this is literally what Ford Heights was throughout the 90s it was a function in Hamsterdam
This is why legalization requires more than just legalization. You gotta offer rehab (free of cost), quality assurance (no contamination), and regulation (licensed dealers with regular review processes)
0:54 marker shows that things in the Western are about to go right back to what they were. Herc & Carver's reactions tell what side of the coin they'll be on. Carver, from this point, will become good, community police, while Herc will continue his brutal tactics on the citizens he's supposed to protect.
Find the scene after this moment where Major Colvin is in the office with Burrell & Rawls getting ousted/fired A key quote from that is Burrell saying “Well you won’t fall alone; only the way we want you to fall.”
I love how they're just massively arresting people randomely... just standing there on the street with nothing in their hands. lol I guess they had to make a show for the news.
Bodie was the only one who listend when Colvin. And and talked and explained the rules and shit one thing about bodie he always listened when mfs was talking no matter if it was cop,drug dealer,or kid he always listened
The shot from the ghetto bird of the department wrangling everyone in Hamsterdam up has to be one of the most depressing scenes in the series. And that’s saying a lot.
So in Apocolypse Now col Kilgore onv plays ride of the valkyries but also ad one of the helicopter pilots destroys an artillery piece in the skirmish he notable says " nice one,I'll get ya a case of beer for that one". I just thought it was funny that Rawls happend to say that to heli piet here. The nods and references to other media in this show are insane and really awesome to rewatch and pick up on years later. Such an amazing show all around.
Time will come and we will see all drugs legalized. The walls of prohibiton are already cracking. Some years, maybe 10, maybe 20 and we have no longer to witness such injustice.
It'll start with decriminalisation. At some point, they'll be sick of arresting consumers because it's pointless. I don't really know about drug trade becoming legal at any point soon, tho.
nice work officers! You lied to these people like true Americans! Nice! Not to mention throwing all poor people in a cage and punching innocent drug addicts in the face like real men do! Round of applause! Keep up the good work. Shit
There's no such thing as an innocent drug addict. They're the reason dozens of Mexicans get killed by Mexican cartels every DAY, just so that they can get their white powder for sale for these addicts in America. Damn junkies are the reason Mexican Drug Cartels are as big as they are and the reason they're even profitable. Junkies have blood on their hands
the fault in the plan was that they should have built a mini fence around the freezone, or atleast heavily protected the out of bounds line. maybe some frequent routines of weapon searches aswell.
Rollerz leader Yeah, they really needed a better monitoring system for weapons, that's where they were lax. It was a good idea, unfortunately nearly all good ideas centered around group cooperation always has some knucklehead willing to mess it up for stupid reasons.
That kind of thing was a rarity on the show to begin with -- almost all the music on the show was diegetic, meaning that it occurs in the show's world, rather than being an outright soundtrack. They probably wanted to keep with that theme. So, you're very right, Rawls' starting up the soundtrack is also a way to make him look like more of a prick. Nice observation.
doing it this way was just wrong.....they shouldve at least given them a deadline to move out after they knew it was an agreement they had going on, this just made things worse between the police and the streets
Basically people who think they are doing the right thing, actually making things worse for a whole bunch of lives including their own. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Good show.
Rawls: "I'm a closeted gay man who fears exposure and my own self. Therefore, I must mask myself in the veneer of Machismo-Masculinity by playing Ride of the Valkyries and re-enacting that scene from Apocalypse Now."
I like how instead of just editing "Ride of Valkyries" over the scene which would have been cheesy, they have Rawls play it therefore making him look like a douchebag.
It’s been done before too
Lmao probably sees himself as that guy from apocalypse now
@@maxfieldnuckels9075 It always reminds me of Mr Burns first, but Rawls was exactly the kind of tosser who would unironically see himself in that role
You know movies
That's how most music is handled on the there's hardly ever any music during scenes unless it's coming from a radio or the like. The only exceptions I can think of are the season finale montages.
Colvin says how drug war was the end of real police and it's become militarized in so many words in a different episode. Foreshadowing this scene. The whistle and commanding "over the top" reference to ww1 then helicopters with dance of the valkyries a reference to apocalypse now. Damm what great writing in the legend show
Quite.
Man, I need to rewatch this from the beginning...again.
Yep. There was a police funeral in Baltimore maybe 7 years ago and the police from city and country lined 83 N from the interchange to the Cockeysville exit. I was driving south and I remember passing multiple vehicles I can only describe as armored personnel carriers. A few years later I went to a Billy Joel concert at Camden yards and walking back to my car I passed squads of police with military grade weaponry wearing tactical gear.
It bothers and scares me that our "civilian" police forces look more like an occupying army than a civilian law enforcement force.
Wrong twice. We don't have armored vehicles. The police have armored vehicles. We're on the wrong end of the nightstick there.
And it has nothing to do with those incidents. That may be their justification but it's not the real reason. As the previous commenter said, the cops have become an brutal occupation force suppressing the common people.
Given that in many parts of America the police evolved from slave patrols and strike-breakers, this should hardly be suprising.
But the war on drugs has taken it to another level.
@@brianleap5830 In a small town just outside OKC with a population of less than 10,000 (I'm surprised it's even that much; it seriously feels like a place that might have 5,000 people at best), they have one of those armored personnel carriers. This is one of those towns where 90% of everything is on one street & it's out in the country to begin with. But for some unknown reason, they basically have a tank. There's no tank level threat out there, lmao.
Ride of the Valkyries*
I laughed for a minute straight when Rawls turned on Ride of the Valkyries.
Rawls is such an asshole.
punk
The greatest kind of asshole.
@@tonysamosa1717 I laughed when they showed him in that gay bar.
This prick literally woke up that morning and said I'm bringing my boombox and Ride of the Valkyries CD to work today.
Someone should have taped over it with Abba - Waterloo like smithers did
When Herc said "Bout Fuckin Time" .. You can tell from Carver's reaction he did not want Hamsterdam to end .. He just wanted the streets to be safe and the murder rate to drop .. He knew for exonerating Hamsterdam shit was gonna be as bad as it was before ..
I don't think you know what exonerating means.
Scott A hi
Herc was a typical meathead dumbass cop who thinks the job is about bullying people.
ur right but its made clear in the show prior how they both feel
@@bhunji1850 Imagine being a police officer and only arresting street kids forced into drug dealing by the end of a gun, instead of wondering how and who controls the supply of drugs, all cocaine comes from south america but its everywhere in the world, 70-90% of ecstasy/mdma comes from holland but somehow its also everywhere.
LMAO "Outstanding Red Team, Outstanding. Get you a case of beer for that one." Man, they even used the line from the movie!
What movie?
Apocalypse Now
I like to assume he just played the movie clip
All these fools could have potentially claimed entrapment and walked. Too bad Bodie was the only one smart enough to do it!
+gunterdak Bodie claimed entrapment cause they caught him on the wire, when bubbles was recording him ordering the re-up. But he got out of it because he was slinging in hamsterdam. everyone arrested in the hamsterdam raid probably didn't get a charge, it was all for show. When they're at the BPD later, Lester points out all the people in bracelets and says "here's everyone we caught on the wire", so they only charged people relevant to the Barksdale wiretap.
It's not entrapment when they would have committed those crimes anyways.
MoRiellyMoProblems Uh, thats half right, I guess. Its not entrapment if police simply provide opportunity to commit a crime that you were already inclined to commit. But there are scenes in this season where uniformed officers tell people to go sell drugs in hampsterdam, and promise that they won't be arrested for it. That is literally the EXACT definition of entrapment, even if all those people were regular drug dealers.
gunterdak It's not just half right, the whole point of entrapment is that you're committing a crime that you otherwise wouldn't have outside the circumstances. Hamsterdam wasn't turning law abiding citizens into drug dealers and dope fiends, those people were already deep into that life. They were criminals before, and they're criminals after.
MoRiellyMoProblems The fact that those people were all career criminals or habitual drug users does not mean that they cannot be entrapped. You don't get arrested for just generally being a criminal. You get arrested for committing a specific offense at a specific time and place. The definition of entrapment, according to the supreme court, is when an official, acting under real or apparent authority, tells someone something is not illegal, then later arrests them for it. While in this case, the police did not exactly say it was legal to sell drugs, they did use overbearing tactics to convince people that it was acceptable to sell there, and ensured that no one would be arrested. The police, in uniform, drove people to hamsterdam, told them it was ok to buy and sell drugs there, and watched them do it. When the dealers were reluctant, uniformed cops INSISTED that they sell there. They even used threats and coercion. All of that would go a long way in an entrapment defense.
I swear to god I knew Rawls would play this song.
Great minds. Alan, maybe you should have written for The Wire.
"Flight of the valkyries."
Rawls is such a piece of shit. Deeply-rooted feelings of inadequacy and self-loathing on account of his homosexuality and failure to advance in his career lead him to spread pain and misery for his own pleasure. There is no better illustration than blasting Ride of the Valkyries here. In Apocalypse Now, that song is played when the Americans roll in and massacre an entire village just to root out enemy combatants. It's genocidal, and Rawls, completely missing the point of that scene, plays the song like the jingoistic bully he is.
@@caesaroctopus9439 beautifully put
He loves the smell of juked stats in the briefing room. It smells like... overtime
Rawls is a bastard, but the way he says "Over the top gentlemen" is just too fucking cool.
I swear Rawls fits the role of a supervisory police officer so accurately it's scary ! He should have been made deputy in the B-More police just for playing his role so perfectly !
*AGREED!*
John Doman was in the military and took part in the Vietnam war
@@ouastradamous4224 and later portrayed carmine Falcone in Gotham.
@@ouastradamous4224 Wouldn't be surprised if Apocalypse Now was one of his favourite movies.
His actor was ex us army so he probably knew how to play a commander type
The white flag at the end attached to the corner to designate a peaceful area :(
Mike Ehrmantraut why do you have a pic of Saul if you’re Mike?
Over the Top Gentlemen"
You don't say Rawls. I mean, "Ride of the Valkaries" Seriously?
+Benjamin Zbogar he was channeling his inner Lt. Col. Kilgore
they shoulda dropped napalm on that entire area
Rawls was such a dick. I guess you are what you eat.
the references to World War 1 and the Vietnam War are fitting of course given the historical relationship between Baltimore's black community and the city's police department, the latter often being regarded by the former as akin to an invading army. This is why the Wire is so important and just so damn good. It has no equal.
4exgold which reference to World War 1?
The phase "over the top," in regards to the trenches of WW1. Vietnam reference was the song and the line "outstanding, red team outstanding. Get you a case of beer for that one." Which both were from the Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now.
It’s true. The Wire is the best there is, has ever been or ever will be.
"Over the top, gentleman", is a World War 1 reference when the soldiers from the Axis and Allies would have to crawl out of their holes and engage.
They didn't have helicopters in WW1.
@@Marinealver he didn't reference helicopters. WW1 was trench warfare, he meant over the top meaning going above ground
I made it through the first two seasons without shedding a tear. Then when I got to the destruction of hamsterdam I lost it. I knew it was coming, but seeing it happen just made me sick.
Hamsterdam was one of the best ideas in the history of TV law enforcement, with a second being Vic Mackey's idea of one drug dealer in place with no competition drastically drops murders. The streets were clear and clean during Hamsterdam. The neighborhood returned to luster and people could walk the streets safely again. Fking brilliant
godofwine77 same thing happens in the movie Sicario
All at the expense of ONE block.
@@thenewadventuresofhenry6998 Who gives a shit about one block? There are more unoccupied houses currently standing in the US than there are homeless people forced to live on the streets. That astounds me more than the idea of Hamsterdam
@@JimmySteller - I think that was his point. Despite all the positives, lowered general crime rate at minimal cost, the system can't let a free zone exist because "Controlled and confined crime is still crime"
@@Red_Beard2798 it's easy to say when ppl saying it aren't from bad areas. No matter what the cops do the dealers and gangs will always be here. This idea literally made them all leave. I would love to see my neighborhood ridded of all the dealers. It would literally be heaven. The addicts will get their drugs nomatter what you do. Lock them up or anything. This move made them all go one place. Imagine kids not having to see addicts and dealers while they walk to school like ppl that live in middle class areas get to have it.
Colvins idea was great. Drugs are always gonna sell, you can only fight the harm it brings by taking it to someone secluded. Colvins approach in general helped us see a modest relationship between the community and the police. Damn you Rawls.
Rawls just executed orders here. The media were putting pressure and due to the election, the gouvernement had to take action because it harmed their image. It doesn't matter if hamsterdam was a good idea, it just mattered if it looked good to the public/ for the police chiefs.
i think it was a terrible idea.
@@goodyeoman4534 was it though? Colvin sacrificed three streets (mostly derelict row houses anyway) and the rest of his district was much safer
@@liamcollins9183 That's debatable. Encouraging illegal drug use arguably puts more people in danger, in the long-term.
Me personally I'll never understand how anyone can ever be against legalizing or at the very least decriminalizing drugs. Maybe not all of them cause there's always going to be a new dangerous drug coming out but stuff like marijuana,crack/cocaine,heroin,pain pills/opiates,psychedelics like mushrooms and maybe even meth though that one is debatable. Its like with cigarettes being legal. Just because they are legal doesn't mean more people will smoke. Even if they were illegal then there would become a big black market for them. Big pharma lobbies to keep drugs illegal and so do the alcohol industry and dont get me started on alcohol a drug that does its fair share of destruction. I'll never understand why they don't control everything and tax everything and thus make alot of money for our communities but also keep everything safer and much more manageable. Also prisons and jails are full of people in there over drugs or alcohol and incarcerating people is big business and charging fines and court costs bring in alot of money. Its all corrupt there's alot of money to be made from arresting drug addicts and fining them and keeping our jails packed. When will people realize that there will always be addicts and drug dealers and drugs? Than people who make sure it stays illegal are probably the ones making the most money and helping to bring it in,working with cartels and taking lobbyist money. It's all a bad joke
I think Ride of the Vylkeries speaks to what bunny was talking about the whole time, how the cops vs dealers had turned into a litteral war, with the cops just occupying baltimore instead of trying to improve it. Rawls is playing Ride of the Vylkeries and says "over the top gentlemen!" As a reference to Apocalypse Now, and he is Colonol Kilgore. I could almost see Rawls saying sadly "some day, this wars guna end"
"Outstanding Red Team, get you a case of beer for that one."
That's a fucking cool movie reference to put in there.
Bunny Colvin could have raided and closed down Hamsterdam himself the day before he presented his stats to Rawls and Burrell. Then he could keep the great stats, cleared Hamsterdam temporarily, kept his major's pension and there would be nothing Rawls or Burrell could do to him. But he was such an honorable man and the scriptwriters wanted Bunny punished.
But that would send a messege to the dealers that Hamsterdam isn't actually safe to conduct their business. They'd just go back to their usual corners around the city to do the same thing which will probably lead to an uptick in drug violent related offenses
I love this scene because what's being portrayed is a literal war. Everything included but the deaths lol (most drug addicts would probably prefer death then to withdraw in prison anyways). That's probably the reason for the music, they really wanted to get over the whole "war" feel. Cops were straight up punching women, taking people off their toilet's butt naked.
idclolid
In the DVD commentaries they talk about the whole subtext of series 3 being about war.
Culminating in that scene between Avon and Slim where Slim says "Even if it's a lie, we fight on that lie"
Pretty sure that guy was doing a pro
They're drug addicts, poison to their city
@Jonathan Jones the episode was even titled "Mission Accomplished"
The "too seasoned" dude from Season 4 at 2:10
u sure?
@@flisko123 that's 100% him. Pretty funny to see. They reused characters like that somewhat often, I believe chris was a cop in the background during season 1
Andrew Miller no
@@nononono12345 yeah, if you go back to the first episode you can see him looking at the camera czcams.com/video/BRNm21GWEJY/video.html go to about 3:31
Dude said What happened to the deal😅 Are you serious
Why tf not be serious? The police literally gave them the ok to sell drugs.
@@jontray87 did you not watch the show, they didn’t give up the murderer, deal was no killing
well cooler heads prevailed!
They did give up the shooter, he turned himself in when a bunch of petty offenders was being processed
@@Vid3oG4mers wait.... they did give up the murderer. I remember him turning himself in.
That definitely wasn’t the reason why it got shut down. It got shut down because it got leaked to the press. You the one that didn’t watch the show 🤦🏾♂️
"Over the top, gentlemen!" and the "Ride of the Valkyries" tie back to Colvin's earlier conversation with Carver--that policing and soldiering aren't the same thing, and that police work was ruined when the line was blurred.
1994 Crime Bill, co-written by President-Usurper Joseph Biden. Part of its provisions was the militarization of our police forces.
The Hamsterdam experiment was doomed from inception. Drug abuse, drug selling, drug addiction and failed policing are symptoms, not the problem itself. The problem is generational poverty. Hamsterdam has the physically, mentally and psychologically most vulnerable people concentrated one area. Even the majority of the dealers are poorly educated, operating off primal instinct and being manipulated by higher ups. We saw in the second season that the white working class was bring drawn into the cycle by the lack of jobs, education and community stabilizing resources. Colvin could only do what he knew, lock up the worst part. He never thought twice about all of the kids trapped and doomed in his freezones... This series is so great
This really well proves the point Colvin was making to Carver; "You call this a war and pretty soon everybody's running around acting like warriors. They'll be running around on a damn crusade, storming corners, slapping on cuffs, racking up the bodycount."
And what's Rawls doing? Acting like a World War 1 officer, ordering his men over the top to storm the enemy trenches.
Tuckey always knew what was going down, even before it happened
Probably realized it was too good to last and got out while the going was good.
Rip Johnny weeks, he died doing what he loved
I'm from Chicago Heights Illinois about 30 minutes south of downtown Chicago next door to Chicago Heights is Ford Heights this is literally what Ford Heights was throughout the 90s it was a function in Hamsterdam
I just realised the helicopter pilot says the same line "Outstanding, get you a keg of beer for that one" as in Apocalypse Now
This is why legalization requires more than just legalization. You gotta offer rehab (free of cost), quality assurance (no contamination), and regulation (licensed dealers with regular review processes)
More importantly, no excessive taxes because government making the product too expensive will lead people back to the black market.
Who remembers at the end of the seen Bubble's partner was found dead. "The rats got to him." LOL
"That is a weird way to use LOL", he responded 4 year after the original comment had been posted.
partner? you make it sound like they were gay
@@David-yp5ff how the fuck does partner=gay
0:54 marker shows that things in the Western are about to go right back to what they were. Herc & Carver's reactions tell what side of the coin they'll be on. Carver, from this point, will become good, community police, while Herc will continue his brutal tactics on the citizens he's supposed to protect.
"What happened to the deal man?!" You guys broke it! The police said NO BODIES!
That has nothing to do with why Hamsterdam got shut down.
Rawls was so proud of himself when he hit that music lmao
"Outstanding red team, outstanding.
Get you a case of bear for that!"
Was this the ONLY scene Burrell was out of an office and doing live police work lol
"Over the top gentlemen." 😂😂😂. Scene Would have been better if Rawls was smoking a cigarette.
The kid “tuckie” who rolled out was smart 😂😂😂😂
Nah. He just read a leaked version of the script and knew the police were coming.😁😁
Find the scene after this moment where Major Colvin is in the office with Burrell & Rawls getting ousted/fired
A key quote from that is Burrell saying “Well you won’t fall alone; only the way we want you to fall.”
1:15 Tucky was a visionary
John Doman nailed this role 1000%
I love how they're just massively arresting people randomely... just standing there on the street with nothing in their hands. lol I guess they had to make a show for the news.
This is so accurate...Baltimore cops and politicians are as crooked as can be #RealLife
Makes sense since it is a democrat ran city
@Job Valdivinos the republicans run the south and what region is the poorest? Most diseased? Least educated?
*American Cops*
@@Randomguy41639 HAHAHA. Crickets from you, the moron.
@@spinner771 someone sound as democratic
I had just watched Apocalypse Now when I watched this episode.
Rawls is a reasonable fucking guy.
zosko1 indeed 😂😂
Bullshit
And also arresting addicts is not the answers to addiction they need to be put into treatment not jail
but treatment or jail isnt the answer either! all people are going to do is get clean then after the stipulations use when they want again.
So what... Killing them? what else are you going to do, apart from taking their freedom or helping them?
Tony Chambers
what do you suggest then huh?
Everyone know addicts don’t rob and steal either 🙄😂
How about just let them get high.
I love how Rawls blew a whistle and yells “over the top gentleman” like he’s a WW1 officer lmao
“Outstanding, Red Team, outstanding! Get you a case of beer for that one.”
Outstanding red team, get you a case of beer for that one. Major Rawls Kilgore is on the job.
rawls was definitely doing the most with the ride of the Valkyries like a kid playing cops and robbers
Agreed, just about every scene with Rawls in it is a scene stealer.
That's crazy because in 1997 my dad was a cop with the New Orleans Police and they had a big bust like this in the housing projects in '97
Bodie was the only one who listend when Colvin. And and talked and explained the rules and shit one thing about bodie he always listened when mfs was talking no matter if it was cop,drug dealer,or kid he always listened
one of the most interesting arcs of a show I've seen
00:35 had me dying omg, did he really play that record hehehe
The shot from the ghetto bird of the department wrangling everyone in Hamsterdam up has to be one of the most depressing scenes in the series. And that’s saying a lot.
1:48 male officer casually socking a woman in the face lol
She deserved it. xD
yeah fuck that bitch
Equal rights...and lefts.
Biggest, most ruthless gangsters by rank
9. Avon
8. Burrell
7. Royce
6. Prop Joe
5. Mouzone
4. Marlo
3. Rawls
2. Levy
1. Clay Davis
0. Omar
0a. Kennard
What about The Greek?
Good Tackle @1:49
Johnny Emerson that was a deon sanders tackle
"Ride of the Valkyries"
So in Apocolypse Now col Kilgore onv plays ride of the valkyries but also ad one of the helicopter pilots destroys an artillery piece in the skirmish he notable says " nice one,I'll get ya a case of beer for that one". I just thought it was funny that Rawls happend to say that to heli piet here. The nods and references to other media in this show are insane and really awesome to rewatch and pick up on years later. Such an amazing show all around.
Johnny. Rest In Peace.
The Flight of the Valkyries kills me in this scene
Real subtle Rawls. The only thing missing was him putting on Cavalry hat
RIP Bunny's career
You know Fascism's coming when you hear Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries".
Troy Evitt Care to explain? Sounds stupid to me me.
So debauchery and criminality is the better option?
hes a bandwagon liberal, what do you expect?
fascists in the comments above don't understand, entirely predictable
Shout out to Tucky for reading the situation 😂😂
If Burrell wouldn’t have assumed that he was being scapegoated, this may have gone a different way.
LMAO @ The dude with his ass hanging out
1:52 damn my dude was just tryna take a shit why they do him like that 🤣
I can’t stand Rawls so shout out to the actor that played him.
They could never do this in a real case scenario unless they wanted to be sued for millions.
its like the deacon told bunny, and that place you created is hell
When I was a no nothing boot... would’ve loved to have Rawls blow the whistle and give the “over the top” command as the music played.
"what happened to the deal man?" Hahaha!
The wire was RAW damn you even see a bare ass in the show .. they weren't hiding anything DAMN
Time will come and we will see all drugs legalized. The walls of prohibiton are already cracking. Some years, maybe 10, maybe 20 and we have no longer to witness such injustice.
It'll start with decriminalisation. At some point, they'll be sick of arresting consumers because it's pointless. I don't really know about drug trade becoming legal at any point soon, tho.
Rawls is awesome, I'll always remember the scene where Rawls gives both middle fingers to McNulty.
00:40 Rawls knew he was a made man.
Tuckie was smart..he Know the Police was coming😆
Tuckie was like my azz ain’t getting cuff-slapped today 😆😆😆🤣🤣
End of an era 😢
at 1:31 that throw was great... bahahahaha
...and here comes Rawls to take the credit for saving the day!!
Have to watch Apocalypse now
They must feel like . We just got played
nice work officers! You lied to these people like true Americans! Nice! Not to mention throwing all poor people in a cage and punching innocent drug addicts in the face like real men do! Round of applause! Keep up the good work. Shit
There's no such thing as an innocent drug addict. They're the reason dozens of Mexicans get killed by Mexican cartels every DAY, just so that they can get their white powder for sale for these addicts in America. Damn junkies are the reason Mexican Drug Cartels are as big as they are and the reason they're even profitable. Junkies have blood on their hands
REGASO BBNH the druggies lied first. What part of no violence did you not get
That’s a result of drug prohibition. Legally regulating the supply would get rid of the black market - or at least reduce it massively.
It’s a fucking television show
Pawns getting checked by the police.
big shoutout to tucky the smartest character in the show
Facts Tucky did try to warn them
I wonder if Rawls and Lt Harris from Police Academy are related
Wasim Mohammed 😆
Damn that mans crack was out
the fault in the plan was that they should have built a mini fence around the freezone, or atleast heavily protected the out of bounds line. maybe some frequent routines of weapon searches aswell.
Rollerz leader Yeah, they really needed a better monitoring system for weapons, that's where they were lax. It was a good idea, unfortunately nearly all good ideas centered around group cooperation always has some knucklehead willing to mess it up for stupid reasons.
...Pretty sure this counts as entrapment...
One of them contrapment things?
That kind of thing was a rarity on the show to begin with -- almost all the music on the show was diegetic, meaning that it occurs in the show's world, rather than being an outright soundtrack. They probably wanted to keep with that theme. So, you're very right, Rawls' starting up the soundtrack is also a way to make him look like more of a prick. Nice observation.
I wonder if the police helicopter played Wagner today over Seattle when they cleared CHAZ/CHOP?
Hamsterdam was a much better place than CHAZ/CHOP
The biggest entrapment in tv history
doing it this way was just wrong.....they shouldve at least given them a deadline to move out after they knew it was an agreement they had going on, this just made things worse between the police and the streets
And so dies progress
Basically people who think they are doing the right thing, actually making things worse for a whole bunch of lives including their own. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Good show.
1:48, police just socked that lass on the floor, jesus
Rawls: "I'm a closeted gay man who fears exposure and my own self. Therefore, I must mask myself in the veneer of Machismo-Masculinity by playing Ride of the Valkyries and re-enacting that scene from Apocalypse Now."
It's not that deep