Although Marcus isn’t a real person, his story isn’t unlike the hundreds of Black people who have died at the hands of police in America. PopSugar spoke with the cast of Black-ish in preparation for the episode, and many of the cast members weighed in on preparing for the storyline.

"Police brutality and racial injustice have been going on for so many thousands of years now," shared Diggy Simmons, who plays Doug Edwards. “But obviously since 2020, we've been dealing with nonstop brutality and injustice. And now that we have social media, it's just in our faces, and the access that we have to this trauma and this pain is just there for anyone to see."

In Grown-ish, the characters come together and start petitions to have the cops arrested, organize protests, and demand justice on social media. This isn’t unlike the murder of George Floyd that took the world by storm in the summer of 2020.

"As we were filming one of the episodes, the verdict for the George Floyd case was happening on CNN," Chloe Bailey, who plays Jazz Foster explained. “The tears and emotions were real, and this is an everyday occurrence, sadly ... It was really painful in the moment, but I was so happy to be in an environment where I felt safe, loved, and appreciated for who I am as a young Black woman."