Thread by @justin_fenton

I’ll be live-tweeting again with Episode 4 of #WeOwnThisCity to show some of the real-life events that scenes are based on

The opening scene depicts the 2010 pursuit of Umar Burley and Brent Matthews, which led to the death of Elbert Davis, 86. #WeOwnThisCity

What Ward just told the feds about Sean Suiter warning him about Jenkins; that’s something Ward told me in interviews from prison #WeOwnThisCity

Sooooo about that last scene. This is what Ward told the feds: #WeOwnThisCity

The judge in the jury selection scene is real life Baltimore attorney Gerry Martin #WeOwnThisCity

The scene with the flipped car is depicting the planting of a BB gun in 2014 on Demetric Simon (the car didn’t really flip). Here’s a real pic of the replica dropped on the scene by Sgt Keith Gladstone #WeOwnThisCity

Gladstone took the stand *just last month* and testified about the events surrounding that BB gun planting #WeOwnThisCity

Jenkins won a Bronze Star for his account of commandeering a state prison van and driving into the 2015 unrest to collect injured officers. Several other officers were also recognized - none that I reached out to would talk about it #WeOwnThisCity

Baltimore photographer @byDVNLLN, whose photos of protest in Baltimore have twice made the cover of Time magazine, appeared on screen just now taking photos of the unrest. His photos also appear in the opening montage #WeOwnThisCity

Real members of the 300 Men March movement also just appeared in a scene where they file in between residents and police at Penn/North #WeOwnThisCity (Sun photo)

There were 2,500 cops on the force at the time - but who sent a department wide email about the Freddie Gray case charges just minutes later? Jenkins. The actual email: #WeOwnThisCity

This re-creation video of the opening of a safe, after lots of money was removed from it, actually happened. This is the real video #WeOwnThisCity