(This book focuses on race so if you dont like that sort of stuff I do not recommend this book to you) I just finished the book All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kelly. This book is about a boy named Rashad, who is black, that goes to a store and he reaches into his bag to get his phone and money for bag of chips. The store owner and the cop that was there both said e was trying to steal the bag, so the cop brought him outside and cuffed him, Rashad moved a little nad the cop said encased trying to resist so he started to beat him. Rashad is put into the hospital and their whole community gets split in half. Some say Rashad didn't do anything wrong and the police used unnecessary force, others say the cop was doing his job. The other main character is a white boy named Quinn, at first Quinn was on the cops side because the cop is his best friends older brother who practically raised him, but Quinn was there whatching accrossd the street as Rashad was beaten by the cop he saw what happened and he acknowledged that this was his problem and that he has to stop running from it.
I really liked this book because even though it was written a few years ago things like what happens in the book still happen. Usually, if something goes wrong or someone gets hurt everyone brings it back down to race. Sometimes, this causes a big conflict between the community everyone is forced to choose a side and they get outcased no matter what side they choose.
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