Declan Fry
Killing the Cop in Your Head: Forty Ways of Looking at Veronica Gorrie’s Black & Blue
In this layered engagement with Veronica Gorrie’s memoir about the ten years she spent as a Black woman on the police force, Fry places Gorrie’s book in conversation with news articles, scholarship, and personal insight and commentary to paint a portrait of a consciousness divided – a self mobilised against one’s own self and community.
Surveillance extends outward from the self, toward one’s family and friends – and then back, eventually, to the individual cop...
'You either conform to become one of them and allow yourself to be a part of the racist system and their racist ideologies about your own people, or you are in a constant battle, defending yourself.'