And yet, after her death when he was just sixteen, reality soon chipped away at the idea that the police could always be a force of good. In this vital and moving memoir, Michael Fuller, the first (and so far only) ethnic minority chief constable in the United Kingdom, speaks frankly on the pivotal moments of his long, illustrious life: his often-difficult relationship with his Windrush Generation parents, his life growing up in care, his entry into the police force and the realities of policing in a Britain rife with casual racism, racial profiling, and a chronic mistrust of the police in black communities.įuller pursued justice an innate sense of right and wrong instilled in him by the most important person in his life, the housemother of his care home whom the book is dedicated to. “Kill the Black One First” is a raw, unflinching look at the institutional racism of the British police force from someone who stood at its frontlines for more than three-and-a-half decades. Michael Fuller was born to Windrush-generation Jamaican immigrants in 1959, and experienced a meteoric career in policing, from the beat to the Brixton inferno, through cutting edge detective work to the frontline of drug-related crime and violence on London's most volatile estates.

A story about race, identity, belonging and displacement, Kill the Black One First is the memoir from Michael Fuller - Britain's first ever black Chief Constable, whose life and career is not only a stark representation of race relations in the UK, but also a unique morality tale of how humanity deals with life's injustices.

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