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Starr Carter, a sixteen-year-old black girl, goes to a party with her friend. She’s not used to the environment there and feels out of place. Starr runs into an old childhood friend who explains Tupac Shakur’s idea that “Thug Life” stands for “The Hate U Give Little Infants F—- Everybody.” Soon after, they get pulled over by a police officer with badge number one-fifteen. The officer searches Khalil and orders him out of the car without any explanation. He returns to his car before returning to tell Khalil not to move while he searches his vehicle again. While checking on Starr in the back seat, Khalil opens the door and gets shot by Officer One-Fifteen.
Starr has nightmares about the death of her childhood friend, Natasha. Natasha was killed in a gang shooting and Starr is worried that another person she knows will be next. At school, Starr feels tense around her white friend Hailey and boyfriend Chris because they don’t understand what it’s like to live in her neighborhood. She also worries that they think Khalil’s death wasn’t important enough for them to pay attention to it. Her uncle Carlos tells Starr that she should go into the police station with her mother after school so they can testify about what happened on the night when Khalil died. When she does, however, she realizes that the officers are more interested in whether or not he had been involved in trouble than if he actually did anything wrong during his final moments alive. This makes Starr worry even more about justice being served for him since no one seems concerned with getting to the bottom of who shot him or why he was targeted by this group called One-Fifteen (which is fifteen bullets).
Starr blames herself for not doing something sooner – maybe if she’d told someone earlier then things would have turned out differently and his life might still be here today instead of gone forever at such an early age – but now there isn’t much anyone can do except try to find a way forward from this terrible tragedy which has affected everyone who knew him personally as well as those people living nearby who came together through their grief over losing someone so young and vibrant. The head of a local gang named King Lords shows up towards the end of Khalil’s funeral service with a gray bandana draped over his casket signifying membership within their gang; April Ofrah approaches Starr afterwards telling her that if any legal action needs taking against One-Fifteen then give her a call because there may be some hope after all.
The police’s decision not to prosecute One-Fifteen leads to days of protests in Garden Heights. Maverick, Starr’s father, explains the meaning behind Tupac’s Thug Life phrase during this time. He believes that it describes a system designed against black communities. Only by speaking out can black communities begin to break the cycle. At the Carter family grocery store, a teenage member of the King Lords named DeVante begs Maverick for help leaving his gang life behind him and becoming something better for himself. After some convincing from Starr, Maverick agrees with her idea and helps DeVante leave his old lifestyle behind him. A few days later at Mr. Lewis’ barbershop where he works as well as lives there is an argument between them that ends peacefully when two police officers intervene because they see that Maverick is Starr’s father and then search him even though nothing happened between them before their arrival making it seem like they were profiling him just because he was African American which makes Starr feel unsafe around law enforcement officers so she decides that she will no longer be silent about what happens in her community anymore despite being scared sometimes but now she knows how important it is for people who look like her especially young men to speak up about injustice happening all over America so more people can understand why Black Lives Matter movement exists today too!
