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Commentary: Hopefully, ‘The Wire’ Star Who Got Tripped Up Will Realize the Idiocy in the ‘No Snitching’ Mentality
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008
By: Gregory Kane, BlackAmericaWeb.com
Boy, talk about life imitating art that was imitating life.
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson is back behind bars. Some people, like the grandmother of Okia Toomer, might feel Pearson is where she belongs. But getting picked up on a warrant to appear as a witness in a murder trial and then getting busted for marijuana possession tends to redefine the term “jive humble.”
Pearson is the 28-year-old actress who played the homicidal character Snoop on “The Wire,” that gritty HBO series about street life in Bodymore, Murderland that critics said was the best drama television has ever produced.
During her teen years, Pearson was one of the street thugs who helped Baltimore get the nickname Bodymore. In April of 1995, Okia “Kia” Toomer, only 15, was fatally shot during a fight. Cops charged Pearson, then only 14, as an adult with Toomer’s murder. Pearson was sentenced to eight years in prison and served five.
Pearson was back to slinging drugs when Michael K. Williams, who played “Omar” on “The Wire,” noticed her in a nightclub and brought her to the set. Pearson was hired to portray the character based on her real-life persona -- her nickname actually is Snoop -- for the fourth and fifth seasons.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/sayitloud/kane828
Commentary: Hopefully, ‘The Wire’ Star Who Got Tripped Up Will Realize the Idiocy in the ‘No Snitching’ Mentality
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008
By: Gregory Kane, BlackAmericaWeb.com
Boy, talk about life imitating art that was imitating life.
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson is back behind bars. Some people, like the grandmother of Okia Toomer, might feel Pearson is where she belongs. But getting picked up on a warrant to appear as a witness in a murder trial and then getting busted for marijuana possession tends to redefine the term “jive humble.”
Pearson is the 28-year-old actress who played the homicidal character Snoop on “The Wire,” that gritty HBO series about street life in Bodymore, Murderland that critics said was the best drama television has ever produced.
During her teen years, Pearson was one of the street thugs who helped Baltimore get the nickname Bodymore. In April of 1995, Okia “Kia” Toomer, only 15, was fatally shot during a fight. Cops charged Pearson, then only 14, as an adult with Toomer’s murder. Pearson was sentenced to eight years in prison and served five.
Pearson was back to slinging drugs when Michael K. Williams, who played “Omar” on “The Wire,” noticed her in a nightclub and brought her to the set. Pearson was hired to portray the character based on her real-life persona -- her nickname actually is Snoop -- for the fourth and fifth seasons.
