lexus97 Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 dang she played it and lived it! Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who played a diminutive yet fearsome drug dealer and assassin on HBO's The Wire, was arrested along with more than 30 other people Thursday morning in a sweeping drug raid in Baltimore. Pearson, 30, was taken into custody at an apartment downtown on a state warrant, reports the Baltimore Sun. The pre-dawn raids, conducted by city, state and federal law enforcement, reportedly targeted a large-scale heroin and marijuana operation. Pearson, who had a troubled upbringing, had worked as a drug dealer in Baltimore long before being cast on The Wire in 2002. At age 14, she was convicted of second-degree murder and spent more than six years in prison. Thursday's arrests were part of a five-month drug investigation, according to officials. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20472388,00.html?hpt=T2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 I guess Precious will be a single gal again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SonofBaldwin Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 dang she played it and lived it! Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, who played a diminutive yet fearsome drug dealer and assassin on HBO's The Wire, was arrested along with more than 30 other people Thursday morning in a sweeping drug raid in Baltimore. Pearson, 30, was taken into custody at an apartment downtown on a state warrant, reports the Baltimore Sun. The pre-dawn raids, conducted by city, state and federal law enforcement, reportedly targeted a large-scale heroin and marijuana operation. Pearson, who had a troubled upbringing, had worked as a drug dealer in Baltimore long before being cast on The Wire in 2002. At age 14, she was convicted of second-degree murder and spent more than six years in prison. Thursday's arrests were part of a five-month drug investigation, according to officials. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20472388,00.html?hpt=T2 She should have dealt drugs in white neighborhoods. The cops never look there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexus97 Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 She should have dealt drugs in white neighborhoods. The cops never look there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheaps Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Read title too fast.. thought snoops wife got caught up in a raid ooops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn1814 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 She should have dealt drugs in white neighborhoods. The cops never look there. :lmao: :lmao: I loved this dude in The Wire.. Aint it funny how the two hardest on that show were gay.. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Read title too fast.. thought snoops wife got caught up in a raid ooops :lmao: :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 :lmao: :lmao: I loved this dude in The Wire.. Aint it funny how the two hardest on that show were gay.. lol Alot of Naive folks dont wanna believe there are Omar's out here. NOWAY A HARDCORE STREET DUDE CAN BE GAY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzebabe Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 this bull dyke heffa...lawd hammercy...well she'll have fun gettin pussy in prison...shit Da Brat just got out, she can ask her about her pussy gettin skills....ya'll knoe Brat had a helluva time in jail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheaps Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 this bull dyke heffa...lawd hammercy...well she'll have fun gettin pussy in prison...shit Da Brat just got out, she can ask her about her pussy gettin skills....ya'll knoe Brat had a helluva time in jail :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofBaldwin Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Here's what David Simon, creator of The Wire, had to say: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-03-12/news/bs-ed-simon-statement-20110312_1_drug-prohibition-drug-arrest-drug-economy Felicia Pearson is, first of all, entitled to the presumption of innocence. And I would note that a previous, but recent drug arrest that targeted her was later found to be unwarranted and the charges were dropped. Nonetheless, I'm certainly sad at the news of her arrest this week. This young lady has, from her earliest moments, had one of the hardest lives imaginable. And whatever good fortune came from her role in "The Wire" seems, in retrospect, limited to that project. She worked hard as an actor and was entirely professional, but the entertainment industry as a whole does not offer a great many roles for those who can portray people from the other America. There are, in fact, relatively few stories told about the other America. But some additional context is, I think, helpful here. In an essay published in Time Magazine three years ago, the writers of "The Wire" made the argument that we believe the war on drugs has become nothing more than a cruel war on the underclass. In places like West and East Baltimore, where the drug economy is now the only factory still hiring and where the educational system is so crippled that the vast majority of children are trained only for the corners, a legal campaign to imprison our most vulnerable, damaged and desperate citizens is at best amoral. It's been estimated that nearly half of the adult African-Americans in Baltimore are unemployed or underemployed — a consequence of decades in which the need for an American working class has been minimized and the industrial base has been transferred overseas to improve corporate profit. Meanwhile, we relentlessly pursue a drug prohibition that has quadrupled our prison population over that same period, creating a prison-industrial complex that is the largest in the world. By any measure — in raw numbers, in percentage of population — America now jails more of its people than any country, including all totalitarian states. We pretend to a war against narcotics, but in truth, we are simply brutalizing and dehumanizing an urban underclass that we no longer need as a labor supply. And what drugs have not destroyed in our ghettos, the war against them surely will. Both our Constitution and our common law guaranty that we will be judged by our peers. But in truth, there are now two Americas, politically and economically distinct. I, for one, do not qualify as a peer to Felicia Pearson. The opportunities and experiences of her life do not correspond in any way with my own, and her America is different from my own. I am therefore ill-equipped to be her judge in this matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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