Lance Reddick gone at age 60. Way too early.
He was a stone cold badass in The Wire.
He was a stone cold badass in The Wire.
RIP Cedric Daniels
- Thread starter Las Panteras
- Start date
Couple weeks from now, you're gonna be in some district somewhere with 11 or 12 uniforms looking to you for everything. And some of them are gonna be good police. Some of them are gonna be young and stupid. A few are gonna be pieces of shit. But all of them will take their cue from you. You show loyalty, they learn loyalty. You show them it's about the work, it'll be about the work. You show them some other kinda game, then that's the game they'll play. I came on in the Eastern, and there was a piece-of-shit lieutenant hoping to be a captain, piece-of-shit sergeants hoping to be lieutenants. Pretty soon we had piece-of-shit patrolmen trying to figure the job for themselves. And some of what happens then is hard as hell to live down. Comes a day you're gonna have to decide whether it's about you or about the work.
Best show ever. A lot of great actors on that show and Daniels was certainly one.
RIP Cedric.
If you haven't seen it, check out "We own this City" on HBO, it's very much like "The Wire", a lot of the same actors are in it, in different roles, it's about a true story of Baltimore City police corruption that happened in the 2010s. It's a miniseries, 6 episodes.
