Gamal Turawa, the Met’s first openly gay black officer, who retired in 2018 after 25 years of service, has revealed how he was often subject to racism ‘under the guise of banter’.
The Met’s first openly gay black officer has revealed how he was often subject to racism ‘under the guise of banter’ including colleagues once painting his face white so he would ‘fit in’.
Mr Turawa, whose life story is told in BAFTA-nominated documentary The Black Cop, joined the Met in the 1990s after four previous applications had been rejected. Then just weeks into his training, a group of fellow recruits burst into his room and covered his face with shoe whitener, before telling him: ‘Now you fit in.’
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