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April Ofrah calls Starr the next morning to apologize for placing Starr in a dangerous situation but emphasizes that she has future activism. Hailey texts Starr to also apologize for the situation and how Starr is upset with her. Yet Starr knows that Hailey is not sorry for her actions and things will never go back to the way they were. Starr finds Maverick clipping the rosebush that was brought from Garden Heights, but notices how the roses are dying. But Maverick responds with they will "reset" or bloom once again. Maverick then calls Starr "lil Black Panther" then points out the photo in the newspaper of Starr with a can of tear gas along with the title "The Witness Fights Back" as news go on and call her brave. Carters help out clean the streets of Garden Heights, then Kenya arrives and informs Starr how King beat up Lesha and she was in the hospital. Kenya then apologizes to Starr for calling him "my brother" instead or "our brother" due to feeling insecure about their relationship, fearing that he would choose the Carters due to being ashamed of Kenya's side of the family. But Starr assure her that they will "rebuild" everything including Garden Heights and family. Starr says Khalil would be known as a thug but to her he was the hazel-eyes boy with dimples and how she will never forget his death and the fight for justice. She then lists names of black victims such as Emmett Till, and how people in their communities such as Garden Heights are fighting back, she then promise she will never be quiet, forget nor give up.

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The group try to get out through the back door of the store to find out its locked. Mr. Lewis notices them screaming for help and Tim comes to assist but Maverick arrives and unlocks the back door. Everyone around the area try to aid the situation by putting out the fire. Police and firefighters arrive at the scene to put out the fire, Maverick soon calls out King but Kings laughs it off calling lies behind his King Lords. The crowd and people around him soon start to snitch him out and claim to see him set the store on fire. Lisa arrives and questions the group where they've been soon to respond at the riots as they get treated for wounds. Police take King and his lords in patrol cars, and DeVante asks Carlos if he will be kicked out of the house but Carlos assure him that he isn't but instead grounded for life for walking out. DeVante and Carlos have a conversation over placing King to jail for good and knowing his "stash" will help and Carlos says its will help the whole neighborhood.

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Seven drives trying to avoid protests but most streets are blocked off by police. Till the car ran out of gas, and the group has to go walk to the nearest gas station for gas. Soon to realize that they're walking on the street where Khalil was shot. As people chant "a hairbrush is not a gun" and the group join the chant with April Ofrah. April spots Starr and Starr begs for April not to let Lisa know she was at the riots, but April reminds Starr's most powerful weapon is her voice. Starr then fires Ms. Ofrah to assure that she's not Starr's attorney anymore and her actions are out of an activist. Police starts throwing out gas at the protestors, as people scatter for their lives and air becomes thick through the stampede. Goon drives through the neighborhood to Maverick's store grabbing milk to ease the pain. Starr checks her phone to realize Lisa saw her on TV throwing back tear gas, and as they get ready to leave the store somebody throws a glass bottle with a flaming cloth through the door which sets the store on fire.

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The whole car is silent as Seven drives to his grandmother's house. Starr in frustration can understand where she went wrong and has a discord with herself. People scream "Justice for Khalil" in the streets, as Seven slams the wheel he asks Starr if she wants to "burn sh*t up" and Starr responds with her wanting to riot and protest. Till Chris intervenes and says it wont solve anything but Starr snaps back with if the world doesn't care neither should she. Seven drops off Kenay and Lyric at Seven's grandmothers house, and then they question why DeVante walked off, as he responds that he wanted to visit his brother Dalvin in the cemetery, till they arrive at Magnolia Avenue with riots and chaos. People riot and playing "F*ck tha Police" as Chris feels out of place and realizes the anger that Starr and Seven has. Soon they start to question Chris about the "black test" by asking him elements of black culture. Soon to end the moment with gunshots go off nearby.

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3 weeks later, the Crater family has moved to their new house, and Starr feels safe and she misses her old people from garden heights. Starr soon texts Chris where he picks her up and they go to his place (mansion). Starr feels upset looking at the finery in Chris's house, due to the different ways they grew up and Starr feels that Chris should be with somebody that is white and rich like him. Soon enough Chris responds that he loves Starr for who she is, Starr gets intimate and the two began to make out, then Starr insures Chris that she is ready to partake in sexual intercourse. Chris feels guilty and doesn't want to take advantage of Starr so he holds her instead while she cries. Starr gets a call from Seven informing that DeVante is gone, and they soon go search for him at Lesha's. They go to Lesha's bedroom to find DeVante on the floor with blood all over the carpet dripping from his mouth. They get DeVante out along with Lyric, while Lesha dances in front of King to distract him so they have enough time to get out. A song by Tupac plays about "making changes" but as soon as the song ends on the radio the station states that Jury has decided not to indict.

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About 10 weeks have passed since Khalil's death and Carlos hosts a BBQ for Memorial Day plus birthday/graduation for Seven (turned 18). Chris and Maya arrives and Starr worries that both her worlds will collide and catastrophe will take place. Soon to her surprise everyone starts to get a long, Kenya soon asks where Hailey is till Maya responds with excitement how Starr fought her. Lesha, Lyric (Seven's little sister), and Seven's Grandmother arrive but Lesha scolds Kenya for keeping the party a secret from her. Seven soon confronts Lesha and places her on the spot by calling her out soon for Lesha to respond with King will get back at them for everything. Seven is upset and sobbing till Lisa comforts him, Maverick instructs Kenya and Starr to go outside and Kenya apologizes on behalf of her mother Lesha.

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After 2 weeks after the meeting of Starr and the judge Seven has drove Starr to school and has become more aware of Starr, not to mention the fact of keeping track of King after Starr snitching him out. Hailey approaches Starr and confront her about not knowing Khalil by showing her proof of his "mugshot" and a picture of him from her 12 birthday party. Hailey demands for an apology from Star for lying and calling her racist bu Maya comes and defends Starr insisting that Maya has said racist comments before. Hailey upset responds that Khalil would have been killed soon enough, and the cops did a favor by killing him (a drug dealer and a gang banger). Starr punches Hailey in the face till Remy (Hailey's brother) gets involved along with Seven. The 4 of them get suspended and Lisa scolds both Seven and Starr for being suspended. Later at the Carter's both King Lords and Garden Disciples find themselves to set things aside and it only gives cops an advantage if they're fighting one another.

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Starr wakes up to the smell of bacon, Lisa makes breakfast for the King Lords and has Starr bring food to Maverick which is outside with Carlos. To her surprise Carlos and Maverick are getting a long and they signal her to sit between them. The King Lords drive the Carters to the courthouse where Starr receives flashbacks of when Maverick was taken to prison. Lisa and Maverick show Starr support before she enters the courtroom by herself. Starr has been sworn and is terrified but knows that her parents are watching and that Khalil needs her support. The judge states that they will be referring back to the day of Khalil's death.

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Lisa and Maverick take the family to a trip (or their new house) as Lisa got the job at the hospital. Seven states that he will stay in the community college nearby to take care of his mother and sisters. Before heading to the Grand Jury, they watch a basketball game before getting shot at from the windows, Maverick rushes to get his gun and shoot at the shooters who drove by. Maverick calls Carlos', when arriving Carlos suggests to call cops but Maverick states that the justice system is corrupted and might get them killed. King Lords (against King) soon arrive to serve as body guards to protect the Carters while Maverick argues with Carlos over the "gang bangers" and how Carlos has done everything to keep the children safe.

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Starr has angered King by the interview as its making headlines worldwide. Chris soon calls out Starr for recognizing her voice in the interview and begs for her to open up, as Starr has also talked to Maya about Hailey and her racism (Hailey stopped talking to both Maya and Starr). Starr eventually opens up to Chris over Natasha's death and Khalil till they get interrupted by Seven and Layla to go inside to prom.

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A few weeks have passed and the Carters have been picked up for Starr to go have an interview with Diane Carey. Chris then asks Starr what color is her prom dress which reminds Starr that she has forgot. Starr explains the situation in the interview over Khalil's intentions, 115 and the actions that happened that night. And most importantly Starr ends with a chilling statement that he wished her shot her too.

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Lisa takes Starr to iHop where they talk about the interview and her situation with Hailey. Starr meets the DA and soon ends. Starr goes to the store where she has a talk with Maverick over Chris and what she sees in him. We learn that Maverick might have a thing against white people, the heart-warming situation soon ends to King pulling up to the store asking for DeVante's whereabouts and Maverick replies with a simple don't know answer. King soon lightly threatens Starr to keep quiet over the Khalil situation. Maverick and Starr head home for dinner, and Lisa refers to another job interview at the same hospital where Pam (Carlos' wife) works.

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Starr leaves and walks to Maya's house to get away and have a clear mindset. Hailey soon asks and breaks the tension by asking why Starr was mad at them, Starr responds by using a serious matter as a "get out of school" situation. Maya apologizes realizing she was wrong yet Hailey stands her ground and replies back with a everyone else did it to situation. They soon watch TV to calm the situation and Hailey scrolls through to the point where she finds an interview with 115's father. They soon continue to explain how 115 is an officer who's been working at Garden Heights and how both Khalil and Starr we're threats in the situation. And how "hell" it has been with an office attacking him and all the harrasment, which leads to Starr not wanting to do interview as much. Hailey then gives her sympathy towards 115 which angers Starr and emphasizes that Hailey is racist with her "White lives matter". Hailey leaves the room for Starr to soon realize that in fact Hailey did unfollow Starr from Tumblr due to all the "black posts" and how she has been racist by Maya. Maya then states certain situations where Hailey has been racist, Starr walks back to Carlos' house to find Carlos drinking a beer. And finding out that he indeed punched 115, Carlos points out about the interview and how if he would of been there he wouldn't of shot Khalil.

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Mr. Carter is found at the store beaten up by 5 King Lords. Maverick grabs DeVante by the neck and slams him against the wall and DeVante tries to play it off but then breaks down. The plans are soon revealed that DeVante betrayed the King Lords by not killing Garden Disciples, soon to leading DeVante's family running out of town without him. DeVante is brought to Carlos' home and he has to attend school, Maverick soon learns that Starr has a white boyfriend and that he was the last one to know about it. DeVante also reveals about Khalil's past and how he never wanted to become a King Lord but had to due Brenda stealing from King. DeVante explains that Khalil had the Lord's as a "Family" which they provided protection, clothes, food, and a home and how DeVante is a King Lord only in order to survive.

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Chapter 10 starts off by letting us know that Starr is greeted by riots and protests filling up the streets. Starr is startled by the cop checkpoint and Maverick informs Starr that they will go watch harry potter and get ice cream. Starr then goes for a drive with Maverick and she judges him for listening to tupac due to his age and how Khalil told Starr the definition of tupac. Maverick then asks what she thinks it mean and Starr replied with “bottom of society” “get the short end of the stick,”. Maverick then pushes the conversation further more to have Starr understand about the modern society. And Starr comes to a realization that people need to hear her words and speak out. They find DeVante at the store trying to hide from King because King wants him to find the people who killed his brother and kill them. We learn that Maverick took a hit for King as a drug charge in exchange for protection and being able to leave the gang.

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Starr's becomes a "war zone" where shots are firing and people are going hostile. They move to the den where there's no windows nearby. They soon turn on the TV to watch all the protest and commotions people are making and claim that 115 has no fault therefore shouldn't be arrested. Starr is reminded about Natasha's death over a vivid dream then to be woken up by Seven that they're going to play basketball at a park called Rose Park. Yet Rose Park is filled with broken beers, cigarette buds, and etc. it means a lot to Starr because she used to play with Khalil and Natasha their. During Starr and Seven's playing of basketball 2 Garden Disciples approach and question if their Kinging then demands to hand over their valuables and a King nearby approaches to intervene by showing a gun at the waist and claiming the park is King territory. DeVante (a King Lord) is friends with Seven and is introduced to Starr then to her realization DeVante was at the Spring Break Party. Maverick picks up Seven and Starr furiously to come home to Lisa demanding for their electronics and that they are going to Uncle Carlo's house. On their way they see protestors and Lisa feels Starr's guilt then they talk. Once arriving Starr is greeted by Chris after a while and Starr explains why and he cant understand but doesn't end up telling him that she is a witness to Khalil's death.

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The Carter's attend Khalil's funeral which is at Christ Temple, and find the place to be packed and with people wearing "RIP Khalil t-shirts". Starr feels guilty and uneasy due to leaving Christ Temple because it wasn't diverse and the pastor was a white guy with a guitar. The pastor greets the Carter's and gives a look of pity towards Starr. They soon get in line to see the casket and Starr starts to tremble and feels a wave of nausea till they get to the casket Starr gets a flashback to the time she saw Natasha's casket. Service for Khalil starts and the Carter's are placed in the front seats to show about how they we're some of the closest people to him. A few friends of Khalil go up and tell stories that Starr has never heard of which makes her uneasy of feeling worthy of her seat. A woman by the name of April Ofrah with "Just Us for Justice", with a program that targets police accountable for their actions states that 115 is not charged and Khalil was unarmed. Which starts a commotion throughout the church. Soon enough King, Lesha and king lords appear to the point where Starr feels a tension between her parents. One of the king lords places a grey bandanna over Khalil and Mrs. Rosalie grabs it and throws it at them calling them out to leave the church due to being demonic. Starr feels heavy guilt for abandoning Khalil when he was alive and also admitting that Khalil was her first love. Maverick believes they should attend the march but Lisa insists due to Starr's protection. Till April Oprah comes in and informs that she wants to help with legal representation to gain social media attention in order to make a difference, with protecting Starr's privacy.

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The chapter starts off with the TV mentioning Khalil as a "Suspected Drug Dealer". At Williamson (white school that Starr attends) they serve fried chicken for lunch and to her surprise she notices Chris but comes to a realization that if she really is being herself/feels that she is betraying Khalil by dating Chris. Starr, Maya and Hailey all end up at PE and at the basketball court, and to the surprise Hailey forces Maya and Starr to play making her the "friend group leader". Starr is unfocused at the game and Hailey makes a racist comment stating “pretend the ball is some fried chicken.”, they end up loosing the game and Starr claims to Hailey about the racist comment. Hailey surprised responds with the intention to the lunch they had and not racism. Soon enough Hailey and Maya question Starr whether the Khalil they saw on the news was the Khalil that attended her birthday party and if that's the reason why she's acting up. Starr feeling betrayed she denies knowing any Khalil due to Hailey referring Khalil as a a "Drug dealer" and Starr feeling that no one will see Khalil for who he actually is. Hailey then questions Starr if its about the anniversary of Natasha, coming to the realization that Hailey mother's anniversary was a few weeks back., making Starr run crying out of pure emotions, and to her thoughts everyone believes she is "the weak black girl". Starr heads to the headmaster and blames it on cramps for her uncle Carlos to come pick her up. Carlos takes Starr for frozen yogurt and calls out Starr for the inconvenience where Starr counters it with why has 115 not been arrested yet, and Carlos defends him saying nobody can know the outcome of such situations. Starr soon confesses that 115 pointed a gun at her for his own safety and Carlos repeatedly apologizes.

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Mobs roam through Garden Heights and everyone feels more safe near Maverick. Starr then assumes that Lisa is on Facebook updating her status not believing that its the time to be doing that and Maverick tells Starr to get her old laptop to give to DeVante for school. Starr goes on Tumblr to check on her posts about Khalil till she comes across a video of Tupac explaining about "Thug Life" and suddenly feels that she understands the meaning. Starr brings the laptop to Seven's room since DeVante and Seven were playing video games. Where Starr brings up about playing Harry Potter and being a Slytherin, then Seven informs that King moved back in with Lesha and kicked him out for good. Starr over hears Lisa talking to the District Attorney about speaking out publicly while Maverick doesn't fancy the idea, yet Starr feels its a duty and should speak for Khalil. The next day Kenya replies to Starr's Tumblr by complimenting it and they go to Just Us for Justice office in order to do the TV interview. They start by practicing and opening up if Starr is able to answer some question unlike whether Khalil had a gun. To the surprise it was simply a hairbrush, Starr also reveals about Natasha's death and how she wasn't their for her but wants it to be different now that she voice with Khalil. At the end Maverick gets a call from DeVante about something people don't want to hear and ends off with them being on their way.

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At Williamson we are introduced to Hailey's brother making a protest simply to get out of class. Starr is greeted to another basketball team , Jess, not participating to the protest while Chris, Layla, Seven, and Jess joke around they were protesting to get out of class. Mr. Lewis is interviewed after school in front of the store, and accuses King for all the thug like actions that's been going on. Mr. Lewis is considered a "Dead man" and shows all his scars on live TV not to make the situation better. A police officer soon enough comes around and asks if they had a grudge (Maverick and Mr. Lewis) which they calmly respond no. They ask for registration and ID then a crowd approaches till the cops tell them to leave but they respond by saying its their business. They go into the shop after the incident. Kenya then informs Starr that she needs to speak up for Khalil to save the neighborhood and points out that if she died and Khalil was alive we would of done the same.

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As arriving to the police station Lisa reminds Starr to stay true to herself and not to be nervous as she's about to be interviewed. Carlos shows up and says in order for the case to be proper the interview has to be done that same day, then Lisa demands to be able to be right next to Starr during the interview. Starr is reminded by the talk and soon puts her non-ghetto speech. The detectives start off by asking if Khalil seemed nervous or "irate" but Starr starts to become nervous and starts to panic. Starr then calms down and cools off after remembering that her dad told her not to let them place words in her mouth and she denies and answers that Khalil was beign difficult. Yet the detectives move on to still calling Khalil as resistant to arrest and Starr loses her patience because she felt like she was the one being on trial instead of 115 (the officer/his badge). Lisa and Starr leave furious out of the station and the interview.

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Lisa drops of Starr and Sekani where Starr has to start acting "white" and not talk slang/stank eye or "ghetto" due being a white school. We're immediately greeted to Maya and another white Asian student. Her thoughts go to Ryan which is the only other black student at the school and everyone would believe they would start dating due to their skin color and being the only other colored students. They find Hailey which is Starr's longest known friend. They soon talk about their spring break and Starr feels "distant" due to Hailey unfollowing her on Tumblr after posting a picture of Emmet Till (which in another way is I don't want to be your friend anymore). She then recalls that they became friends exactly when Natasha was killed (Starr's friend that died by getting shot in a drive by) and Hailey's mother died of cancer. Starr soon runs into her boyfriend Chris even though she's been trying to ignore him after he pulled a condom in his bedroom when she wasn't ready to have sex yet. She then can't ignore him after his new music he dropped on her and feels she can be her true self instead of her white self with Chris. Till she gets a flashback making her recoil from from it. After school ends Seven picks up Sekani and Starr with Layla which is Seven's girlfriend and soon enough a cop car passes by and tension fills the car until reaching the freeway. Yet when arriving to the clinic to greet Lisa, Brenda shows up (Khalil's mom) and how she was over he grief of Khalil's death. Then Starr proceeds to call her out for it till Lisa scolds her for judging.

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We come back to Starr over hearing the argument with her uncle Carlos, and her parents over whether Starr should speak publicly and Carlos defending the officer. Starr budges in claiming she doesn't want to talk to detectives or police. Starr then believes that Carlos and Maverick fight all the time because Maverick missed his children's lives. Since Maverick was in prison for 3 years and how he name her Starr due to being the light in his world. Maverick and Carlos inform Starr to hold her ground and don't let the detectives tell her what they want to hear and for her to hold her ground. Starr and her parents visit Mrs. Rosalie (Khalil's grandmother) who helped with the pregnancy of Starr. Tammy (Khalil's aunt) has a close relationship with Khalil and Lisa (Starr's mom). Mrs. Rosalie then confronts Starr to confirm that Starr was with Khalil when he died and that Khalil was also selling drugs. She also places guilt on Starr by stating how Khalil's only true best friend was Starr.

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Ambulances come to assist with the crime scene, the police came to investigate the car and inspect in order to assure there was no weapon included. She soon is picked up at the scene to later be in the house, and we learn that her family is both Christian and Muslims. We also learn that the next morning Seven discusses over his Mom's new boyfriend (a drug lord of the town) and how he moving in. The Carter's offer for Seven to stay but he discloses that he wants to be their for his mom and his beatings in case King  (the drug lord) starts beatings. Everyone fears about the cause of Khalils death as an innocent man and the affect it will have in the society. Starr soon thinks about her 2 worlds that she has to completely separate and how she hasn't answered her boyfriend. Starr then goes walking around with Kenya, and Kenya explains about her side of the story and what happened after all hell broke loose at the party. They go walk around and get food from Mr. Reuben's for Starr's father. Soon enough King shows up at Maverick' store to keep a package of drugs in the store and Maverick reminds King that he took a hit for him when he was in the gang and not to lay a hand on Seven, King tells Kenya to get in and speeds away.

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Chapter 2 we're brought back to the time were Starr has the talk with her parents about being arrested or being careful in such situation. Back to the present Starr hopes that Khalil has had also the "talk". Khalil gets flashed by the cop and Starr tries to notice the face features/details about the cop. Khalil does not cooperate with the cop leading to the point where Khalil is shot 3 times by the cop over the suspicion that Khalil owned a weapon.

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In chapter 1 we are introduced to Starr Carter and how shes attending Big D's spring break party (in Garden Heights). We're also introduced to Kenya and how Starr hangouts with Kenya a lot(due to the share of a brother named Seven), we also learn that Starr's best friend named Khalil is at the party. Starr and Khalil catch up and Starr soon finds out that Khalil has joined the drug business. All hell breaks loose when shots fire, Starr and Khalil escape the situation in Khalil's car, soon to be pulled over by a cop.