snoop, NO NOT THAT one

the wire is the most amazing show on television. season four is finished and they say season five (which just started filming) will be the last. that is a tragedy. all four seasons were different. all four focused on a different element of baltimore. from drug dealers to longshorement. the constant theme is the PO-LEESE.

snoop is an amazing character. you can tell she (at first i thought snoop was a male. it's very difficult to tell she's a woman) came up through the streets and not some performing arts high school. she is a stone cold killer on the show working her magic (chill inducing) with a NAIL GUN.

turns out snoop did some time. she did some time for killing another woman. snoop was 14 at the time. FOURTEEN. talk about tragedy.

i wasn't there. i don't know what went down. i do know my thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of kia toomer.

i also know 'the wire' is the absolute best there is out there.

The Role of Her Life
Snoop Pearson Is a Killer on HBO's 'The Wire.' A Victim's Family Can't Bear to Watch.

By Teresa WiltzWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, March 16, 2007; Page C01
BALTIMORE
The thing is, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's life wasn't supposed to look like this. At all. Some folks think it shouldn't look like this. An eye for an eye, and all that that entails.

But on rare occasions, fate decides to indulge in a little rearranging of centrifugal forces, turning lives inside out and granting the object of its attention a massive, cosmic do-over.............

..........Four years out of prison, age 24, Snoop wasn't living a life lined up along the straight and narrow. She was back in the game, peddling drugs, running with the rough boys, an undersize woman with an oversize swagger. Not much good was coming her way.
Until the night that Snoop spotted "Omar," the gay thug on the acclaimed HBO show "The Wire," at a club. Or maybe he spotted her. Accounts differ............

"They saved my life," Felicia "Snoop" Pearson says of the producers of HBO's "The Wire" who hired her to play a hardened street character very much like, and named after, her.
Photo Credit: By Marvin Joseph -- The Washington Post