What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Six
…stop something else that’s going on.” “So instead of hiding the 22 Marlo Stanfield murders and playing it down, the mayor should make it out to be a gang war?”…
…stop something else that’s going on.” “So instead of hiding the 22 Marlo Stanfield murders and playing it down, the mayor should make it out to be a gang war?”…
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