Simply because something has always been done or taught, isn’t a reason to continue with it.
A single extreme act of police brutality forever changes the lives of two boys, Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins—one black, one white. Rashad wakes up in a hospital room, and Quinn saw how he got there. Told in alternating perspectives, Rashad finds himself as the symbolic figure to the community’s response to police violence, and Quinn is forced to understand what he saw and how it fits into the larger story of a town divided by racial tension.
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