Matildas star accuses police over behaviour after she endured a cab journey that turned ‘very scary’ after she was sick out of the window
Sam Kerr said she was treated differently by police because of “the colour of my skin” after they doubted her account of being locked in a taxi that was speeding and swerving which she said left her “terrified” for her life, a court has heard.
Forbes asked the Matildas star about her experience of racism growing up in Australia. Kerr, who identifies as White-Anglo-Indian, said: “At school, I experienced being in situations where teacher had instigated that I was the troublemaker, or had started trouble,” she told the court. On the evening of 29 January, they had been on a dinner date before visiting another restaurant for a friend’s birthday. Kerr said she had had some wine and cocktails that evening and ended up in a nightclub that was “a bit of a dungeon”. They stayed for 15 minutes before leaving to head home because the club “wasn’t for us”.
She said, at first, the taxi driver drove normally. Roughly 15 minutes into the journey however, Kerr began to feel sick. She put the window down and laid her head “on the outside of the window”. Kerr told the court that Mewis had pleaded with the driver to stop the car but he did not listen. She said they had “tried everything” to get out of the car, both when it had stopped and was moving, including door handles and trying to open the windows again but everything was locked.
After they got out of the car, which had parked outside Twickenham police station, Kerr approached police which she said left her feeling “relieved, because I thought they would help us” and that Lovell, on first impression “wasn’t that bad”.
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