Mondo Browne
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Raymond "Mondo" Browne, played by Gano Grills, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series Oz. A member of the "Homeboys" gang, he is in prison for murder and is let in Emerald City when inmate Simon Adebisi is in charge. Browne is later killed by Chris Keller as Em City becomes overwhelmingly black.
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Mondo and Leroy Tidd are first shown attacking Bruno Goergen, a bigoted and corrupt police officer serving time in Oz for murder. Mondo is later transferred to Em City as one of the many Black inmates hand selected by Adebisi and Martin Querns. In Em City, Browne and Tidd first attempt to rape Cyril O'Reily, but he fights back, and Adebisi and Cyril's older brother, Ryan, warn them not try it again. As Em City lets in more black inmates, life gets easier for Browne; He and the other inmates are allowed unlimited drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and "prags" (sex slaves) as long as they keep violent incidents down. Because all the guards who are transferred in are also black, the Homeboys run Em City in every way. Browne then has sex with white inmate Tobias Beecher which angers his lover, Chris Keller. Later, an Italian inmate named Zanghi calls Browne a nigger in an argument, and Browne beats him in retaliation. Even though Browne was clearly more aggressive and out of line, Zanghi is thrown in the hole because the COs who break it up are black and only concerned about his use of a racial epithet. This angers Italian leader Chucky Pancamo who is shortly transferred out of Em City.
In Em City, Supreme Allah tells Browne and Leroy that they need to sell more drugs because Desmond Mobay is outselling them. They confront Mobay telling him to stop making them look so bad but then CO Adrian Johnson breaks it up and sends Browne to a murder interrogation. As he is being interrogated about the death of Bruno Goergen, he suggests that Mobay may be responsible. Shortly afterwards, Browne and Supreme get into a tense argument that white inmates Chris Keller and Ryan O'Reily notice. The two of them use this to target a murder victim that cannot be traced to them. Browne is then on cafeteria duty awaiting a truck shipment when he is offered oral sex from the bisexual Keller. Keller instead kills Browne as a means of firing Martin Querns to reintegrate the now overwhelmingly Black Em City. However, Keller is not suspect as Supreme's stolen necklace is placed at the murder scene. Angrily, Adebisi and the COs led by Johnson beat Allah before taking him to solitary as they are convinced that Supreme is responsible for Browne's death. Querns is convinced seeing that his necklace was at the scene and he and Browne almost came to blows on more than one occasion.
