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Kumari de Silva
This is the major problem with the book - - we would LOVE to know why Paul and his side (the "Quinn" chapters) view this incident as police just doing their job. Why it's not considered abhorrent to beat an unarmed teen who was NOT resisting arrest and had no priors. But instead of getting an answer to that question we are given a bunch of information on Quinn and his Post traumatic stress from seeing the beating, we're put mostly in a position to feel empathy for Quinn and sympathy for Rashad but we get no answers on why Paul and so many others like him, act like that.
We're left to speculate that it's due to confirmation bias, or subconscious bias or how about maybe overt racism. But as one character so helpfully points out in a Quinn-chapter, it's NOT racism because Paul's not like part of the KKK. Wow. Just wow. This book is something else. Not in a good way.
We're left to speculate that it's due to confirmation bias, or subconscious bias or how about maybe overt racism. But as one character so helpfully points out in a Quinn-chapter, it's NOT racism because Paul's not like part of the KKK. Wow. Just wow. This book is something else. Not in a good way.
Jamie-Lyne
The difficult answer to this (in my opinion) is because of the way he looked. He "fitted" as a guy who would rob a corner store.
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