BALTIMORE — Jon Bernthal once did knuckle pushups outside on the sidewalk.
This unscripted moment happened when the actor with the tough-guy face, 45, was in Baltimore last year working on “We Own This City,” which premieres 9 p.m. Monday on HBO.
Bernthal was channeling former Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, the disgraced former leader of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. Jenkins, who is often described as a larger-than-life character, oversaw the unit tasked with getting guns off the streets. Jenkins was no Officer Friendly to begin with, and by the time the unit was exposed as corrupt, he and his team left a trail of brutality, corruption and a fatal collision during a high-speed chase in their wake. Jenkins is serving a 25-year sentence for robberies, drug dealing and other crimes.
