Prez shoots a police officer

[hudson0815]

My heart stopped when I first saw this scene and how McNulty reveals the badge of the corpse.

And a great moment for the actor of Prez, his reaction is gut-wrenching.

[poopmcscoopface]

prez should of lied and said he yelled police

[TahRahJoh]

Notice his fortune cookie? "A new friend makes himself known" In the streets his fellow officers are friends and the criminals are foes. A friend, his fellow officer, is noticed because he fired his weapon multiple times making himself noticed or "known". I want some chinese food now yo.

[notorioussw]

@TahRahJoh

good job analyzing that.. i was trying to figure it out

[mrmootheirrev]

Naughty Daniels. Compelling a.. uh... 'suspect' or 'witness'?

[unluckymonkeyboy]

4:03 Daniels swerves to avoid all the piled up bullshit of the brass.

[Zigzag4me]

Mcnulty's face when he picks up the badge never fails to make me laugh! Pause it, it's hilarious!

[DocSkribblez]

"A new friend makes himself known." Dukie surely did!

[mattd687]

@DocSkribblez I always assumed that it was a hint for McNulty that Stringer Bell would become an informant.

[DocSkribblez]

@mattd687 Yeah, you could see it that way, too. Stringer sure ended up very friendly with the police soon enough. I was just thinking from Prez's standpoint that he'll soon meet Dukie who became a friend to him, but I guess he never read the other side that that 'friend' will eventually drift away.

[wormed7600]

1:20 LOL poor jimmy

:-( this is one of the saddest scenes ever

[yungadizzle]

Doesn't get any better than this ladies and gentlemen...

[LordTacohead]

I didn't realize before I watched this clip that Daniels was subtly steering Prez with his questions, giving him hints about how to get his story straight. Daniels knows that it was an accident and was looking after his man. Prez proves that he's worth looking after by acknowledging that he's fucked up too badly this time and that he's done.

[unlinkedthunder]

I felt sorry for Prez in this scene

[lildwayne21]

Prez was the most down-to-earth character on the whole show.

[MarloStanfield10]

Poor Prez.

He has grown so much as a person from the time he pistol whips that black kid and blinds him in one of his eyes to him being a successful teacher. From bad to good.

Same for Carver except he became better police by the end of the series compared to the first 3 seasons.

Herc remained a dumbass, tho an unlikeable one after he ruined Randy, Bubbles, and Little Kevin's lives.

[illflip]

excellent forseshadowing with the fortune cookie by the writers. goddamn i miss this show......matter of fact im bout to start watching it over right now starting from season 1 LOL

[475GC]

prez thought he was just another nigga on the corner

[deltavoyage]

Normally I don't single out actors from The Wire for their talent, but both Lance Reddick and Jim True-Frost deserved Emmy nominations for this scene. One of the best moments of the series, and this is The Wire. That's saying something.

[avonbarksdalewife]

Damn Prez lit his ass up,

But naw it was a honest mistake, and when I 1st saw this I just knew when I heard them shots it was Prez shot. But when they showed Prez standing over the body and the patrol car roll up I new Prez had did something that would have change his life. Plus when I press the info button on my cable box it said Prez has a life changing moment. LOL

[belindabrunopiverger]

whats the name of this show?

[Johnny8109]

The Wire, from HBO

[Sneezlebob]

This was one of the saddest moments in the season

[allieversayiswat]

2:49 cock goes where?

[Tzimnewman3]

7:38

LOL

[2010COFC]

He should stay in the office instead of doing field work.

[SDRE1005]

who eats the cookie first lol yeah prez is probably the only 'good guy' whose truly made any progress. he became a whiz at piecing the parts together and he and lester were like the engine that kept major crimes running. it's for the best he became a teacher though you can tell he grew up pretty fast in season 4

[bigomamma]

remember when he pistol whipped a teenager (note: even carver and herc thought this was uncalled for )?

[slowjump]

im suprised this did not bit him in the ass in the 4th season

[VASpecial036]

Prez wasn't competent? Sheeeit, I remember that intro in one of the episodes in sesaon 2 when that Johnny Cash joint is playing in the background, and he's piecing together all the players in the Barksdale organization on the board.

Or, although not all that elaborate, how he was able to decipher the codes they were using.

Prez was "good police". As long as he didn't have his ass on the street.

As he said at the end in the aforementioned scene: "Fuckin A."

[avonbarksdalewife]

You correct Prez was good police. He didn't get credit cause everyone only wanted to remember his bad moments. Remember he's the one who figure out the Barksdale's phone code. This was by far a honest mistake. I really thought he was gonna get shot once McNulty left the car and they split.

[kandinskyforfootball]

@avonbarksdalewife Do you wish you were married to Barksdale?

[htownhomie06]

that look on McNulty's face when he finds the police badge is priceless.

[Nightowl358]

Prez was a good cop. Maybe not built for the street  stuff, but good otherwise. If not for him, they'd all still be scratching their heads over the pager codes the Barksdales used in Season One.

[scarrmd]

@Nightowl358 - He had the brains but not the instincts

[mookking09]

dum ass

[betweenthedays]

This absolutely broke my heart the first time I saw it. Prez is a fantastic detective if you stick him in an office and give him pieces of a puzzle to fit together. He's brilliant. But put him in a high pressure situation with a gun and he's a fuck up. It felt like all those episodes of growth were for nothing and all because he went for takeout. At least in Season 4 he finds his calling. Though that brought a whole new kind of heartbreak.

[sonygurm]

Yeah, poor Prez. But ur right, he did find his calling as a teacher. And he's a good one at that.

[weedblower89]

wat u mean a new kind of heartbreak ?

[goceltics339]

@betweenthedays these are my thoughts exactly!

[kulgan18]

Actually he was a good detective, far better than carver and Herc at least.

He cracked up the barksdale code and was very good at investigating papers and watching the wire.

The problem with prez is that he is too impulsive and had a bad temper.

[pjds88]

lol...first he busts the kid's eye...then he punches valchek in the face...but seriously, this was the last and biggest fuckup for prez

[groffo12345]

This is why you don't go out for chinese food. Order in, for chrissakes. LOL!!

[MackTheKnife12]

prezbo fucked up

[RalofTyr]

Prez wasn't a police officer. He's got a good heart, but he's not tough or competent.

[koolaidshaya]

omgosh i feel bad 4 prez ,cusz i kno dats a fcked up position 2 b in & lol i finally kno y prez went frum a police officer ,2 a teacher

damn i would quit 2

& they should kno dat prez aint kno fckin racist or nuthin, cmon now i fckin ♥ prez

[koolaidshaya]

mah bad fcked up dat hearts,lolsz

[Teh2Noob]

1:42 omg McNulty is badass

[Tall904Tim]

McNulty's face when he lifts the badge is like oh shit!

[GrizzINK]

Im STILL yellin PREZ 4 PRES.

Y ev'body in the wire like chinese food so much lol

[xbdatlg60]

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