When Officer 115 steps away to his own vehicle, Khalil walks to the driver’s side door to check on Starr. He tells Khalil to keep his hands on the car. The policeman, Officer 115, tells Khalil to get out of the car and pats him down several times in an attempt to find drugs or weapons. They run to Khalil’s car and drive away.Īs Khalil and Starr leave the party, they are pulled over by a police officer. When shots ring out at the party, she and Khalil assume that the gun violence is yet another skirmish between the local gangs called the King Lords and the Garden Disciples. He’s wearing really expensive clothes and jewelry, which upsets Starr because she knows it means he’s become a drug dealer. Her evening brightens when her childhood friend Khalil comes over to talk to her. She doesn’t know anyone else at the event. When she goes to a spring break party in Garden Heights with her friend Kenya, she feels uncomfortable. Starr Carter lives in the predominantly black suburb of Garden Heights, but has attended Williamson, a predominantly white prep school, for six years.
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