(breathing heavily)
What are you gonna do?
Arrest me?
Huh?
Fuck.
- You proud of yourself?
Just broke her heart.
I tell you what, man.
(car door slams)
I'm getting pretty tired
of your games.
My games, what games?
These games, you...
You showed up here,
first thing you did you pulled 'em out of Juniors.
Now you pull 'em out of practice.
You do it constantly for, for
for music lessons or homework or church.
Look...
they got to get straight As,
else they can't play tennis.
You knew that. I told you that. That's my rules.
When you pull 'em out
to train with other coaches behind my back?
I'm trying to round out their game.
They not gon’ get great,
doing the same drills
that every other junior in America is doing.
I'm trying to look out for my kids.
- You're looking out for yourself.
You know, all I hear from you is pressure.
Pressure, pressure, pressure.
But you know what I see?
On TV, I see it every day.
I see the Richard Williams Show.
A million dollars!
Number one!
The greatest of all time!
You don't think that adds pressure?
- It adds confidence.
- Nah, that's bullshit.
It's about you.
Now look, you want to jerk my chain,
go on and jerk it,
but do not do it to those girls.
- Rick, all respects due,
we, we love you.
You, you like a member of our family,
but you work for us.
I wrote this plan.
- Plan.
- And when I say she's not playin’,
she is not playin’.
I call the shots.
And I'm sorry if you don't like that.
- Richard, screw your frickin' plan.
You don't know what you're doing.
You don't.
- Hi Dad.
- What do you got on?
Go upstairs right now,
and put on some decent clothes.
- Johnny,
it's what they're wearing nowadays.
- Go do what I said Janice.
Sweetie.
You recognize your daddy, pumpkin?
Yeah. That's it. Yeah.
(Johnny chuckles)
- What's the matter with you?
Go give your father a proper hello.
Stunod!
(Johnny chuckles)
- Come here.
- I missed you, dad.
- I missed you too, kid.
- (sobs) You know, I made your favorite pizza again.
Even though it's not Easter!
I got everybody together,
I dressed up!
And you spit on it all, on me!
I can't help you with that.
- You get me in front of the right people,
I'll give you five grand.
Something good comes out of it,
I'll give you another five.
That's 10 grand-
- You know, I can count man.
I can count.
Like I said,
I can't help you with that.
- Why not?
- You see I...
You see I'm in the middle of trying
to get my life in order, okay?
And I'm doing that for my family,
that's why I work like I do,
that's why I sweat my ass off everyday in that yard.
This little conversation, just this...
You see this could be seen as conspiracy, all right?
And that gets me 25
to life.
I would, I,
(chuckles) I'd appreciate it if maybe
we'd just pretend that this never happened okay?
I'll see you at work.
I just need an introduction, okay?
I think you oughta go home,
ya oughta be happy with what you got.
Thank you for the coffee.
And here's the thing.
When you have to fight,
man, you gotta win.
(chuckles) There's people
(rap music playing faintly)
think that police brutality
is when police win fights.
Last time I checked,
aren't we supposed to win the fights?
So if we're in the fight,
fuck any talk of police brutality.
(police sirens)
(rap music playing quietly)
If we lose the fights,
we lose the streets.
Let that sink in.
But I'm not here to talk to you
about the fights that you have to have.
See, I'm here to uh,
I'm here to talk to you about the ones
that you wanna have.
(laughs) And the ones you,
you think you're entitled to
just because you're wearing a badge.
See that, that's the real brutality.
Thing is, you don't need that kind of brutality.
And hey, not 'cause it's not fun.
Right? I get it.
Get a few licks in on some mouthy asshole,
just can't shut the fuck up.
I mean, come on.
Fun is fun, right?
Yeah. (laughs)
But see that kind of brutality just,
it only gets in the way of doing the job.
First off, no one's gonna talk to you
if you're beating on 'em.
(jail door slams)
(keys jingle)
I mean, no one is gonna tell you
what you need to know.
And here's the thing,
if you really wanna kick ass out on those streets,
it's information.
(bottles fall)
- There it is.
- Find out who's who.
Who does what dirt,
where do they do it?
Who is it that they do that dirt with?
Information, that's what'll get you cases.
That's what'll get you guns and drugs.
So you can think you're the baddest dude behind the badge.
Baltimore City badass, you beating on people,
but by the time you walk into court
what're you walking in with?
A bunch of failures to yield?
Disorderlies, some ticky-tack nonsense?
You got nothing's that's gonna make
a state attorney sign your court slip.
So what're you doin'?
You getting paid to sit on a bench in a hallway?
Outside Wabash for a few hours
for a case that's only gonna get dismissed?
Truth is man,
you ain't doing jack by being brutal.
Shit, you ain't getting guns,
you ain't getting drugs.
You ain't gettin' those big hairy balls out cases,
the ones that'll get you paid, get you promoted.
(coughs)
Here's the other thing 'bout uh, being brutal.
(indistinct chatter)
Not only does it get in the way of doing the job,
but I'mma tell you right now,
when you beat on people,
you will get ID complaints.
(dog barks)
You'll get files,
you get enough complaints you get a reputation,
maybe even transferred outta your unit.
And even if you can write your way outta the hassle,
most police worth a shit
well, they can write their way
out of pretty much anything.
(all chuckle)
I'm tellin' you,
you just get you the kinda attention
that only makes it harder to do the job.
And I've heard it all before,
"Nah Sarg, I've never got charged for that.
We never even went in front of a trial board",
but then a month, two months down the road,
civil suit comes behind you.
(gavel bangs)
City's gotta pay money for you,
you get a reputation for that,
then you get pulled off the street,
then what good are you to anyone?
Look, bottom line
if beating on people made cases,
shit, I'd tell you go on out there,
kick everybody's ass,
but you know what, it just don't work like that.
So if that's the kinda work you wanna do
I'mma tell you right now,
you're not comin' anywhere near my unit.
Gun trace task force, we are not about that bullshit.
So what am I saying?
You leave here tonight, you guys'll say,
"Was Wayne Jenkins up here telling me
that we can't fight if we have to fight?
Wayne Jenkins, he was tellin' us
that we can't control our posts
if we have to control our posts?"
Man I'm tellin' you, you better control your posts.
"But Wayne Jenkins,
he was tellin' us that our hands are tied?"
Your hands are not fucking tied.
Get this.
Police officer in the street,
if he knows the law,
- if he knows how to use the law. - Male in alley: Fuck you!
If he can write a report,
if he can make that report read clean.
If he understands his own authority,
he wins.
And that's not sometimes,
that's every time.
That is every fucking time.
No matter what you doin' out there in those streets.
By the time you walk into any courtroom in this city,
your word prevails.
And if you're gettin' good cases?
If you're gettin' drugs and guns,
you're bringin' in shooters?
Shit.
(jail door slams)
(keys jingle)
Man, you can't lose.
Now go out there and give 'em hell.