That's the graffiti that started it all... Well, no, actually, a woman tripping over Rashad at the store, making him drop a bag of crisps, was what started it all. Because it didn't matter what Rashad said next - that it was an accident, that he wasn't stealing - the policeman just kept pummeling him, over and over. So then Rashad was absent again ... and again ... stuck in a hospital room. And why ? Because it looked like he was stealing - and he was a Black kid in baggy clothes, so he.
must have been stealing. And that's how it started. And that's what Quinn, a White kid, saw. He saw his best friend's older brother, a policeman, beating the daylights out of a classmate. At first Quinn doesn't tell a soul ... But when the school starts to divide on what happened, blame spreads like wildfire. Quinn realises that, bystander or not, he's a part of history. And he just has to figure out what side of history that will be.
Rashad and Quinn - one Black, one White - face the truth that racism and prejudice are all around us. And there's a future at stake, a future where no one will have to be absent because of police brutality. They just have to risk everything they've ever known to speak out.
That's the graffiti that started it all... Well, no, actually, a woman tripping over Rashad at the store, making him drop a bag of crisps, was what started it all. Because it didn't matter what Rashad said next - that it was an accident, that he wasn't stealing - the policeman just kept pummeling him, over and over. So then Rashad was absent again ... and again ... stuck in a hospital room. And why ? Because it looked like he was stealing - and he was a Black kid in baggy clothes, so he.
must have been stealing. And that's how it started. And that's what Quinn, a White kid, saw. He saw his best friend's older brother, a policeman, beating the daylights out of a classmate. At first Quinn doesn't tell a soul ... But when the school starts to divide on what happened, blame spreads like wildfire. Quinn realises that, bystander or not, he's a part of history. And he just has to figure out what side of history that will be.
Rashad and Quinn - one Black, one White - face the truth that racism and prejudice are all around us. And there's a future at stake, a future where no one will have to be absent because of police brutality. They just have to risk everything they've ever known to speak out.