That evening, protests erupt in Khalil’s name throughout Garden Heights. Starr is appalled that Khalil joined a gang. King, a local gang leader and Kenya and Seven’s father, arrives and lays a gray bandana across Khalil’s body, signaling he was a King Lord (a member of King’s gang). She tells the church that Khalil was unarmed at the time of his death. April Ofrah addresses the church and says she is with Just Us for Justice, an organization calling for police accountability. They ask Starr about Khalil, but she denies knowing him.Īt Khalil’s funeral, Starr sees multiple people in “RIP Khalil” t-shirts. Khalil’s name appears on the news, along with the title “Suspected Drug Dealer.” At Williamson, Starr plays basketball with Hailey and another friend, an Asian-American girl named Maya.
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Lisa asks why it seems like they are putting Starr and Khalil on trial instead of One-Fifteen. The detectives ask Starr whether Khalil was drinking, sold drugs, and or was in a gang. That afternoon Starr and Lisa arrive at the police station for Starr’s interview with detectives about the shooting. Outside a classroom Starr sees her boyfriend Chris, who is white, but recoils when he reaches for her hand. Things are tense with Hailey, her oldest friend at school, and have been ever since Hailey unfollowed Starr’s Tumblr after she posted a photograph of Emmett Till. On Monday Starr returns to Williamson, the prep school she has attended for the past six years, but tells no one about the shooting. Carlos reveals that he is on the same force as One-Fifteen and defends his colleague’s actions, questioning why Starr was in the car with a “drug dealer.” Later that night Starr overhears her parents, Lisa and Maverick, arguing with Lisa’s brother Carlos, a detective, about Khalil’s shooting. One-Fifteen tells Starr not to move and points his gun on her until other officials and an ambulance arrive. When Khalil opens the car door to ask if Starr is okay, One-Fifteen shoots and kills him. One-Fifteen demands Khalil get out of the car, searches him, and then tells him to stay where he is while he walks back to his patrol car.
A terrified Starr implores Khalil to do whatever the officer, whose badge number she notes is one-fifteen, says. While in the car, Khalil explains rapper Tupac Shakur’s definition of the phrase Thug Life as “The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody.” A police officer pulls Khalil over.
When shots ring out, Khalil and Starr run from the party together and Khalil offers to drive Starr home. At the party Starr reconnects with Khalil, a close childhood friend. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter begrudgingly attends a party in Garden Heights with Kenya, a childhood friend with whom she shares an older half-brother, Seven.