The Black Cop: a villain, a victim and a hero – Bafta 2022 Best Short Film winner
The Black Cop is the winner of the British Short Film category at the 75th British Academy Film Awards. This intimate portrait of Gamal ‘G’ Turawa, an ex-Metropolitan police officer, explores his memories of racially profiling and harassing black people and homophobia in his early career.
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Now an openly gay man, Turawa’s story is a multi-layered one and sits in the centre of three pivotal moments in recent British history, from the black communities’ resistance of oppressive policing, to the push for LGBTQIA equality and the aftermath of the west African ‘farming’ phenomenon, where white families took care of black children outside the remit of local authorities.
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As a white person, who went to a majority Asian school, I used to get bullied to fxxk. I punched a kid back once who had been punching, bullying and tormenting me for months. My parents were called in and an adviser from the council. They told me their was a racially aggravated element to the incident. How about that then!
No wonder it won a bafta. It's basically still promoting the racist British police by saying there's hope and changes are afoot. The police are irredeemably racist. Period.
I remember I was 7 when I became aware I was black. I had a fight in school where I was hit first in a debate about Chelsea vs Manchester United. I turned around and hit the boy back, my teacher grabbed me and restrained me but let the boy give me 5 extra punches before letting me go to push him away. In the office our parents sat down and although the other boy started it and gave me a few extra punches my teacher put the blame all on me. On the way home explained to my mother that I never started the fight and what the boy had done, I thought I was going to get the belt for getting in trouble at school but that’s the day my mother sat me down and gave me “the black talk”. I started looking at the world differently and my eyes opened, I started to notice I was treated differently by society than my white peers.
The evil society we had to endure then.. in the aftermath of Trump , Brexit , normalization of the far right, ultra religious groups . Have we really moved on??
I was reared by racist parents in a racist community-based in the mining center of Yorkshire UK I am white but not a racist so I have friends that I grew up along from the West Indies yes the black communities have a few bad eggs but so has the white lucky for me my parents aren't openly racists but I lived along lots that are it don't matter the skin colour we are all human beings. Each with its own problems. Thanks for this upload I've enjoyed his story.
The fact this man experienced all of this and decided to use his story to change things rather than just sit back and complain while all of it happened is amazing.
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Thanks for sharing. Your openness is amazing. I was moved so often during the film.
As a white person, who went to a majority Asian school, I used to get bullied to fxxk. I punched a kid back once who had been punching, bullying and tormenting me for months.
My parents were called in and an adviser from the council.
They told me their was a racially aggravated element to the incident.
How about that then!
This is a very important film. G is so wonderful and gifted. Keep the hope alive, always.
My sincere congratulations! I really admire when somebody can talk from the heart with completely balanced mind.
No wonder it won a bafta. It's basically still promoting the racist British police by saying there's hope and changes are afoot. The police are irredeemably racist. Period.
I remember I was 7 when I became aware I was black.
I had a fight in school where I was hit first in a debate about Chelsea vs Manchester United. I turned around and hit the boy back, my teacher grabbed me and restrained me but let the boy give me 5 extra punches before letting me go to push him away.
In the office our parents sat down and although the other boy started it and gave me a few extra punches my teacher put the blame all on me. On the way home explained to my mother that I never started the fight and what the boy had done, I thought I was going to get the belt for getting in trouble at school but that’s the day my mother sat me down and gave me “the black talk”.
I started looking at the world differently and my eyes opened, I started to notice I was treated differently by society than my white peers.
Incredible
what a fantastic documentary
Powerful.
They (his "colleagues") literally painted him white and he was accepted.
"Finally I had my breakthrough moment". Yes they truly broke him and we are all chipped away at all the time in society. Glad to see his healing.
Wow
Such self-hate he had.
No concept of race???, after the racist comments he heard from his white Foster carers?
Battyman
Omg
He was laughing when they was painting him
He go round throwing things then played victim
Wow! Usted es muy valiente. Esta película ayuda a ser menos racistas y homofobicos.
WOW BEAUTIFUL STORY
i dont know whats so serious abt it if one black person does a crime dosent mean every black person is a crime maker and same applies to relegions
The evil society we had to endure then.. in the aftermath of Trump , Brexit , normalization of the far right, ultra religious groups . Have we really moved on??
England, GROUND ZERO for rascim, and over 500 years ,they've infected the world with. And they owe
I was reared by racist parents in a racist community-based in the mining center of Yorkshire UK I am white but not a racist so I have friends that I grew up along from the West Indies yes the black communities have a few bad eggs but so has the white lucky for me my parents aren't openly racists but I lived along lots that are it don't matter the skin colour we are all human beings. Each with its own problems. Thanks for this upload I've enjoyed his story.
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The fact this man experienced all of this and decided to use his story to change things rather than just sit back and complain while all of it happened is amazing.
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At least his jeans won't be passed onto the future
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Thankyou for this story. And as for the Police. They might have done more than any other institution, but they certainly haven't done enough.