2. Once the jury decision about Khalil is made public, unrest in Garden Heights begins. “Sirens
wail outside. The news shows three patrol cars that have been set ablaze at the police
precinct...A gas station near the freeway gets looted... My neighborhood is a war zone"
(Chapter 9, pp. 136-139). There's a long history of this happening, from the Watts protests in
the 1960s to the protest after the Rodney King verdict in 1992 to protests after the death of
Mike Brown in 2015 in Ferguson, starting the “Black Lives Matter" campaign. Why does the
neighborhood react this way? What is Starr's reaction?