D'Angelo comes clean & wants to breathe like regular folk

[jamieas2]

season 1 of the wire.. NOTHING on tv can ever beat that

[00ghostcobra]

D'Angelo's lawyer looked like she was going to be sick the whole time...

[finarrykahn13]

@00ghostcobra Yes. Totally agree. That view there at 2:09, in which even the public defender is visibly mortified by the brutality. I think it's safe to say that the Barksdale organization is pretty hard when you shake up a public defender with the scale of your ruthlessness....

[JMVEntertainment]

d'angelo had to get clipped but avon didnt knew stringer had something to do with his demise

[youngboysnation]

man D was my fav character i think nobody understood the person he was conflicted wit his enviornment. im a teen in a rap group and my ma introduced me to the wire this summer i finished the series its my fav damn show

[MrZugga]

@tommybrown187 but he doesn't snitch. in this scene at that time he's planning to but his mother talks him out of it later in Season 1, so he doesn't snitch and gets a longer sentence than even Avon gets. And then in Season 2 String has him killed because he's concerned that D will turn. there's nothing in Season 2 that suggests D is going to snitch.

[avonbarksdalewife]

I like D'Angelo character. But really D shoulda been got killed. He only last long cause he was Avon nephew. Stringer was right for killing D. But I fell D in dis scene tho. Lots of ppl is born into the drug life. But he was about to snitch and even tho gangsta Brianna talked him out of it. D shoulda got killed.

[MrZugga]

why should D have gotten killed? He never rolled, and in his last episode he talks about how there are no second acts in life, and that he'll always be a product of his past and his family, and he consigns himself to doing the time his own way. He wasn't going to turn

[tommybrown187]

@MrZugga he snitched. point blank. there is no in between in the game. either u wit it or u aint wit it. and if u aint wit it then u against it. so he had to die. not to be harsh but thats what you sign up for

[gunsnroses0000]

@tommybrown187 he didn't sign up for shit. he was born into it. damn i figured you'd at least get that much from this scene.

[lildwayne21]

As soon as D'Angelo said "Oh, shit" during that tape recording, he knew deep down inside that Bodie and Poot killed Wallace. I get that feeling.

[allieversayiswat]

data trim.

[avonbarksdalewife]

I can feel what D was saying because its true. Lots of ppl grow up in a life crime. Ppl starve in the hood and the drug game help a lot of families eat. My grandpa did hustle back in the day and all his grandson and some grand daughter did the same, so I can feel and relate to D. You live this shit to you just get tired

[wfberan51]

Incredible scene. Larry Gilliard Jr. may have been the best actor in the Wire cast.

[sexxyladychick]

she do that shit all the time you kno how girls do well.. maybe you dont lmao.. look at mcnulty

[Alara0625]

Yeah but D did a lot of dumb shit. If he didn't let his emotions cloud his thoughts he would've got a reduced sentence.

Wallace was talking too much, it's sad but that's the game.

D just wasn't cut out for the game

[kdog8525]

the speech from 7:26-7:55 is classic real talk.

"Y'all don't understand. U don't get it. U grow up in this shit ... All my people: my father, my uncles, my cousins. It's just what we do. U just live this shit until u can't breathe

[htownhomie06]

the speech from 7:26-7:55 is classic real talk.

"Y'all don't understand. U don't get it. U grow up in this shit ... All my people: my father, my uncles, my cousins. It's just what we do. U just live this shit until u can't breathe."

He coulda been describing a lot of shit in society.

If there's just 1 thing i love about The Wire, it always humanizes its characters instead of easily labeling each as either "good" or "bad."

Sad 2 imagine how many get caught up like this in real life?

[Johnny8109]

Woord, after he mentioned his grandpa Bush Stanford, I´d have really liked to hear some backstory on him later on the show .. I can imagine him as the Frank Lucas or Nicky Barnes of Baltimore, some 60´s gangster in pinstipe suit and high heels smashing peoples heads with baseball bats.

[godnlenora]

poor wallace and d;angelo did whatever he could to save walllace and it was too late.

[campbellfire55]

look at d lawyers face at the end she was speechless

[campbellfire55]

yea he did "spankybighead" he snitched on wee bay they had no idea where he was

[kingBigL3]

What a Scene.....

[spankybighead]

I felt bad for D. Damn growing up in a family like that the "bad" choices are so easy to make. The adults of a family are there to steer a child in the right direction. How can you do that when your family lives that lifestyle?...you can't. D made bad choices but damn he couldn't help but make em.

[ButtCrackSally]

i agree wit u 504diva and miffy88

[hentailover4]

titties at 5:03

[ChoaticKid]

Snitch Bitch

[senorpachangaz]

OK tough guy...Damn right I'd be giving up those pieces of shit too. A bunch of scumbag evil dudes who expect you to give them 20years of your life, when they wouldn't even think twice about offing you if they found it convenient to do so. There's a word for people who would be willing to go through with that: SUCKERS.

[504Diva]

This scene was brilliant. It shows how someone deep in the game gets to be a snitch. Dee always wanted out of the game but not out of the family, the power, and the money. But now,He WANTs TO BREATH. So he Snitched on his family. That was wrong and Selfish. THat's the part of the game that is rigged. The cops cheat by using snitches because they are to lazy to do real police work. Snitches cheat by doing dirt, getting caught,THEN snitch to get outa jail. For Snitches, crime really does pays.

[senorpachangaz]

You're so fucking clueless that I won't even bother replying to you at length, but suffice it to say that "showing how someone in the game gets to be a snitch" is not at all what this scene is about.

[504Diva]

@senorpachangaz: Your ignorance is telling. You can't reply to me or anyone else in an intelligent manner so you use curse words and insults to mask your inability to comunicate. THE WIRE is an intense piece of drama. Viewers interprete the scenes differently based on the content of their chracter. I belive you play you pay. You agree with Dee's snitching. So be it. It is true that their is more to this scene, but "You're so fu***** clueless that I won't even bother replying to you at length"

[miffy88]

Stringer and Avon snitched on each other for power and money. Those two were the ones who were "wrong and selfish". D'Angelo snitched because he was a good and decent man who felt deep remorse and guilt about the murders of young Wallace and Deidre. Unlike Avon and Stringer, D'Angelo had a conscience. He was one of the most heroic characters on this show.

[504Diva]

"D'Angelo snitched because he was a good and decent man who felt deep remorse and guilt about the murders of young Wallace and Deidre"

I don't disagree. Actually, Dee was one of my favorite chracters. My point was, this is how someone who is wrapped up in the game can come to terms with snitching. I "ME" not you but "I" fell it was wrong for him to get all he got out of it, Snitch and then Get a deal. If he wanted to talk to put an end to it and then take his time, I would not feel the same.

[504Diva]

D'Angelo was one of my favorite characters because he saw the game for what it was. He saw the big picture. He was not blinded by the money, clothes, cars and women. YET, he STILL could never pull himself away from the game enough to make the right decision to walk away. When forced into a corner, he sought only one way out. A way out for him. D'Angelo's character was a good guy that made very bad decisions.

[spankybighead]

Yeah but I think you guy's are mistaken. D'Angelo never snithced. He considered it but Brianna made him take the weight. Avon got locked up on a small charge and Wee-bay held down the murder raps. D'Angelo never snitched.

[Cinchino2K]

D'Angelo told the cops where Weebay crib was.

[spankybighead]

Okay that he did do...I'm guessing but D probably thought Weebay did Wallace even though we all know it was Bodie and Poot.

[kewanw16]

Stringer Bell was behind it he told Bodie Poot to take out Wallace .

[spankybighead]

Well yeah...Stringer gave the order...Bodie and Poot did the deed.

[kewanw16]

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap!

[ButtCrackSally]

shit dat was funny dangelo said he a faggot

[endlessnice]

This is one of the best scenes in a show overflowing with great scenes. D'Angelo was one of the show's most interesting characters...wish we could have seen more of him.

[kandinskyforfootball]

@endlessnice Whose butch stanford @7:28? Is that the blind man?