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The white officer who kills Khalil. One-Fifteen thus acts as the overarching antagonist of the book—though he doesn’t appear in person after Khalil’s death—and comes to represent police brutality, systemic racism, and corruption in the police force. One-Fifteen is described as being in his mid-thirties to early forties with a buzz cut and scar above his lip. He frames his actions as the result of fearing for his life.
One-Fifteen / Officer Brian Cruise Quotes in The Hate U Give
The The Hate U Give quotes below are all either spoken by One-Fifteen / Officer Brian Cruise or refer to One-Fifteen / Officer Brian Cruise. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12 Quotes
“That's the so-called gun,” Ms. Ofrah explains. “Officer Cruise claims he saw it in the car door, and he assumed Khalil was reaching for it. The handle was thick enough, black enough, for him to assume it was a gun.”
“And Khalil was black enough,” Daddy adds.
A hairbrush. Khalil died over a fucking hairbrush.
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While sitting in the Just Us for Justice Office, Starr expresses concern about answering the District Attorney’s questions regarding Khalil’s death. For one thing, she says, she does not actually know whether or not he had a gun in the car. April Ofrah then reveals that the alleged gun the media has been talking about was really just a hairbrush. Upon hearing this, Starr is newly outraged by the senselessness of Khalil’s death. Importantly, Maverick also points out that One-Fifteen would not have mistaken the hairbrush for a gun were Khalil not black; the officer was blinded by racist assumptions Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minu
Chapter 14 Quotes
Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people's lives too. Saving them from their wild African ways. Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.
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In his television interview, One-Fifteen’s father asserts that his son “loved” working in Garden Heights and wanted to make a difference in the neighborhood. Starr, who is watching the interview alongside Hailey and Maya at Maya’s house, scoffs at this attitude, asserting that it is based on the racist idea that black people are inherently inferior and in need of outside help. She compares it to the backwards thinking that allowed slaves owners to believe they were saving their slaves from lives of savagery. Starr knows that many residents of Garden Heights, including her father and Ms. Ofrah, are already Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendi
“I knew that boy. Watched him grow up with you. He was more than any bad decision he made,” he says. “I hate that I let myself fall into that mind-set of trying to rationalize his death. And at the end of the day, you don’t kill someone for opening a car door. If you do, you shouldn't be a cop.”
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After One-Fifteen’s father’s television interview, Starr finds Carlos—who never drinks—sipping a beer outside his house, a clear sign of his distress. Carlos is disgusted by the interview and the presentation of Khalil and Starr as threatening. He no longer tries to defend One-Fifteen, and instead expresses regret for buying into racist narratives that painted Khalil as a “thug.” His words assert that black people should be allowed to be complicated human beings, and that regardless of Khalil’s background, he should not have been killed. Khalil did not do anything to warrant his death; rather, One-Fifteen’s racist assumptions led him to Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus ea
Chapter 16 Quotes
Ms. Ofrah says this interview is the way I fight. When you fight, you put yourself out there, not caring who you hurt or if you'll get hurt.
So I throw one more blow, right at One-Fifteen.
“I’d ask him if he wished he shot me too.”
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At the end of Starr’s emotional national news interview, host Diane Carey asks what she would say to One-Fifteen were he sitting in the room with them. Remembering April Ofrah’s comment that her voice is her weapon, Starr has been picturing the interview as a boxing match in which she is fighting off everyone who has tried to justify Khalil’s death or pressure her into silence. She has grown bolder and bolder, refusing to censor the truth about Khalil’s drug dealing and expressing her frank anger about the way they have both been portrayed by the media. Moments earlier, she Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti s
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One-Fifteen / Officer Brian Cruise Character Timeline in The Hate U Give
The timeline below shows where the character One-Fifteen / Officer Brian Cruise appears in The Hate U Give. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2
...face, and notes that the officer is a white man with the badge number one-fifteen. One-Fifteen says he has pulled them over for a broken taillight and asks where they are...
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Finding nothing, One-Fifteen angrily tells Khalil to stay where he is and not to move while he walks...
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One-Fifteen shoots Khalil three times in the back. Starr watches in horror as blood spurts from...
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Chapter 4
...a detective, about Khalil’s shooting. Carlos reveals that he is on the same force as One-Fifteen and defends his colleague’s actions, saying Maverick always makes thing “about race” and questioning why...
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Chapter 5
...her hand, however, she flashes back to Khalil’s shooting, unable to separate Chris’s whiteness from One-Fifteen’s. She recoils.
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Chapter 6
Gomez and Wilkes ask Starr whether Khalil seemed “irate” after being pulled over by One-Fifteen, and assert that he was “hesitant” to get out of the car. Starr grows increasingly...
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Chapter 7
...death, she is worried about attending the funeral. She then pushes Carlos to explain why One-Fifteen has not been arrested yet. Carlos defends his colleague, saying one can never know how...
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Chapter 8
...for police accountability. She tells the church that the police have no intention of arresting One-Fifteen, and that Khalil was unarmed at the time of his death. This latter statement in...
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Chapter 9
...the streets. The police appear on screen and say they have no reason to arrest One-Fifteen. To Starr’s anger, the news makes it sound as though “it’s Khalil’s fault he died,”...
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Chapter 12
...hairbrush. In the darkness, the handle looked thick enough—and, Maverick adds, Khalil was black enough—that One-Fifteen allegedly mistook it for a weapon. Starr is horrified that Khalil died over such a...
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Ms. Ofrah tells Starr that One-Fifteen’s father will be giving a television interview on his son’s behalf. Realizing the whole world...
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Chapter 14
Maya flicks through channels and lands on the television interview with One-Fifteen’s father. Pictures of a smiling One-Fifteen with his wife and children flash across the screen,...
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One-Fifteen’s father goes on to say that his son “loved” working in Garden Heights and “wanted...
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As he tells the story of the shooting, One-Fifteen’s father paints a picture of Khalil’s death that is nothing like what Starr experienced. He...
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After the interview Hailey expresses sympathy for One-Fifteen, asserting that “his life matters too.” Starr is appalled by her sympathy, believing it rightly...
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...bruises on Carlos’ knuckles and puts things together: Carlos is on leave because he punched One-Fifteen in the face. The idea of her uncle fighting makes Starr crack up with laughter....
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Carlos admits that the interview with One-Fifteen’s father made him rethink his earlier dismissal of Khalil as nothing more than a drug...
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Chapter 16
...there was no gun in the car, that she and Khalil posed no threat to One-Fifteen, and that the officer pointed his gun at her after killing Khalil. She says she...
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Chapter 22
...an announcement comes on the radio stating the grand jury has decided not to indict One-Fifteen.
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