Life has never been easy in “The Chi.”
The Showtime drama about a bustling Black neighborhood on the south side of Chicago is filled with characters trying to realize their dreams, keenly aware of the.
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The Chi was purposefully devoid of the police, even while a major storyline revolved around the disappearance of a black woman, and one episode featured a disturbing scene showing what sex trafficked and drug addicted young women endure. The season four premiere changes all of that when a 15-year-old is the victim of police brutality during the May 23 episode, “Soul Food.”
The attack is as random as it is senseless. Jake Taylor (Michael Epps) and his friend Kevin (Alex R. Hibbert) are walking home from school when they get into a sort of schoolyard dispute with other kids their age. While it ends without much consequence, a white cop tells them to “knock it off” and asks Jake for his ID. Jake immediately refuses and, within seconds, the police officer has knocked him to the ground where he repeatedly and mercilessly punches him in the face. Kevin goes to take out his ID and another officer pulls his gun on him, further