Jackie is an African American woman in her late thirties, and she is a police officer. She loves her job and takes it very seriously. A strong woman debating on taking her Sargent’s test her career is on the rise and as she shoots at the range her power, expertise and dominance for her position is clear. She speaks about the experiences she has had not only as a woman but also as a woman of color in the police department. The way that men make jokes about women’s bodies, the way racist comments are dismissed as a joke and people of color are expected to smile it away. The other side to her reality is that “they are who they are and I can’t change them.” This attitude at times comes across as dismissive at times to the things that she sees and hears from her fellow officers. She has an experience where she is shot and the officer that saves her is one of the men that is known to be a racist. It puts her in a position of: on one side of it he’s a racist and on the other side he is good at his job and saved her life. As the scene progresses, she gets a call that changes her life forever, finding out that her son, which she had not spoken about, has been shot. She rushes to the scene and sees her son being worked on my the EMT’s and rushed off to the hospital. In true mother form she goes to their car to follow but then sees one of the racist officers being questioned by the Captain. He shot her son. It is in this moment that her will to fight turns into the blood pulsing through her veins. She goes on a verbal attack asking if he shot her son to get rid of another black man? As she awaits word on her son, she speaks of the changes she is going to make. Someone has to tell the truth of the police force and it is her time to speak. ***Performer needs to be African American.
