S02E09 · SCENE 10/38 · 12:25
Stray Rounds · Street in the Pit
Pit Sweep Arrests Dealers

Police raid the Pit, arrest several men, and throw them in a van with jokes about the sandwiches.

12:25→12:42
in the episode · 0m 17s · S02E09
Pit Sweep Arrests Dealers

What happens

12:25–12:42

Officers haul several young men out of the projects and load them into a van. One wrongly protests innocence, drawing jokes about the holding cell. The van rides off.

WhereStreet in the Pit
DriverOfficer
Positionact1 · escalation
ThreadBarksdale crew corner war

Key lines

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12:33

Where you guys going? Come on, you know the deal.

12:36

Get the fuck up against the wall! Hurry up!

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1
absurd0.5
violence0.4
menacing0.4
humiliation0.3
rapid back and forth

Beats

13:11Say no thank you to drugs

Scene in the episode

12:25–12:42
A · Sobotka smuggling investigation
C · Brothel sting and Glekas probe

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