Chelsea -striker Sam Kerr has denied using “whiteness as an insult” in a heated exchange with the police who saw her call her “stupid and white”.
The International Australia is on trial accused of causing racially aggravated intimidation for PC Stephen Lovell during an incident in the southwest of London in the early hours of January 30, 2023.
It is claimed that Kerr, 31, and her partner, West Ham midfielder Kristie Mewis, had been drinking when they were driven by a taxi driver to the police station of Twickenham who complained that they had refused to pay clean-up costs after one of them was Sick and that one of them hit the rear window of the vehicle.
At the police station, Kerr is said to have become “offensive and offensive” against PC Lovell and he calls him “stupid and white”.
During the trial at the Kingston Crown Court on Thursday, Kerr was asked by prosecutors if she used PC Lovell's “whiteness as insult”.
She replied, “No, that's not what I meant” and explained, “I believed he was that he used his strength and privilege over me because he accused me of being something I am not … I tried That to express the power and the privilege that they had never understood what we had just experienced and the fear we had for our lives. “
Asked if she said that PC Lovell was “stupid because he was white,” said Kerr, “No.”
The court heard on Wednesday that Kerr had told the police: “This is a racial f ****** thing”.
When asked about these comments, Kerr said: “I believed that they treated me differently because of what they considered the color of my skin – in particular the behavior of PC Lovell.
“The way he accused me of lying and later arrested for criminal damage, although Kristie said it was only she (who hit the window of the taxi).
“At that time I thought they were trying to give it to me.”
She added on Thursday: “(it was) the way he responded to me, closed me, names he called me, rejecting.”
Kerr also claimed that her perception was formed by how officers treated her differently than her partner Mewis.
The process continues.
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