Isaiah Misukanis

I think this movie is very powerful. It tries to show a lot of different viewpoints. Also read the book and there’s some characters in the book that are not in the movie but the overall end result is still the same. Someone commented about the fact that when Khalil was pulled over there had just been a shooting in the area & Khalil reached back into his vehicle and grabbed his hair brush which the cop may have mistaken for a gun. In the novel the cop holds the gun to Starr’s head, but that doesn’t happen in the movie. I think all of these specific details were intentional by the author and by the producer of the movie (which the author also helped with the production of the movie) to try to show how stereotypes that nonblacks have towards blacks and that white cops have towards blacks caused the cop to overreact. The use of deadly force is disgusting because the cop never said put down your weapon (which actually was a hairbrush) to Khalil instead he just shot him. This movie reminds me a lot of the murder by a cop of Philando Castile in Minnesota two summers ago. And so many other young black men and women who’ve been killed by cops just since 2014 alone! Google search each one of those stories really since Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida it’s pretty much been nonstop and we need change.