Australian footballer Sam Kerr was in court charged with racially aggravated harassment after calling a police officer 'stupid and white' during an altercation. Kerr and her partner, Kristie Mewis, claimed they were being kidnapped by a taxi driver, but the officer found no evidence of a crime.
Sam Kerr called a Metropolitan police officer “fucking stupid and white” after he doubted her claim of being abducted by a taxi driver, a court has heard.
Once inside, one of them was sick. The driver asked them to pay for the cost of cleaning it up but they refused. After this, the driver called the police to complain about their behaviour and drove them to the Twickenham police station – instead of the original destination of Kerr’s home – on the advice of the emergency responder over the phone.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email
Kerr allegedly climbed out of the broken taxi window before she and Mewis approached the police car. They were taken inside the station while the taxi driver was kept outside.Inside the station, Kerr told Lovell that she thought the pair were being kidnapped before calling the officer “fucking stupid and white”.
In body-worn camera footage showing the pair visibly intoxicated inside the police station, Kerr claimed the taxi driver was “holding us against our will” and that the pair were being “held hostage in that cab”. Kerr claimed they had got through to the police but the operator hung up. She continued to say she would not pay for the damage caused to the taxi, saying: “I’m not paying for some fucking dodgy cunt’s fucking window.”
She went on: “You have to understand the emergency that both of us felt. Look at what happened last time when a woman accepted a police officer’s help in Clapham and got raped and killed.”
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