This particular novel/movie thug (the hate you give) was very eye opening and realistic piece especially compared to today’s society, that’s why I’ve selected it. The author killed two birds with one stone and what i mean by that is i believe his purpose was solely to raise awareness on police brutality while addressing the issue at hand. What’s the issue? is it being a brown melanated individual in america.. or is it simply uneducated, untrained, possibly racist individuals hiding behind a badge number and a lethal weapon?
This brings me to examining power/injustice and what that looks like in this novel. According to the script it seems as if police department and media hold way to much power that they can chew. For example, when Khalil got shot by police at a traffic stop for holding a hair brush that officer was placed on administrative leave which means payed leave, then further down the road was let off with zero consequences. Yet the mind blowing part about this whole incident was he got pulled over for so called “failing to put his blinkers on for a lane switch”, if that was the case why was a gun involved for something so small that ended up paying his life for the price. The image blow that has the family gathered around the table is representing the talk the parents had to have with them about how police might be a threat to their lives and what to do in the situation, as you seen the children are quite young and it’s a sad visual that they have to look over their shoulder and can’t even enjoying being a kid due to the fact their life is at risk.
Yes, this is just a movie and book to some of you but to some brown skin people this is a reality! Unfortunately a lifestyle just having to always look over your shoulder, being racially profiled, limited opportunities or seen as a threat even though brown people don’t have a history violence in the past yet the european americans do with slavery and colonization. sure it’s safe to say all cops aren’t bad, but we can’t end it there we need to weed out the bad apples and enforce better education and training because that small fix could save a life. 
