Chelsea soccer player Sam Kerr said that the police treated them differently “due to the color of my skin” after an accident claiming that it and her partner had taken “hostage” by a taxi driver.
Australia International is heading to the trial accused of causing a racist harassment to the computer Stephen Luville during an accident in southwest London in the early hours of January 30, 2023.
He claims that Care, 31, and her partner, West Ham Hammti Miuis midfielder, was drinking alcohol when they were transferred to the Tokkinham police station by a taxi driver who complained that they refused to pay the cleaning costs after one of them was sick, and that one of them broke the back window For the car.
At the police station, Kiir is allegedly “abusive and insulting” towards PC Lovell, describing it as “stupid and white”.
On Wednesday, the Kirgston Crown Court heard that Kiir told the police, “This is a racist.” When asked about these comments, Kiir said: “I thought they were treating me differently because of what they considered to be the color of my skin – especially the PC Lovell behavior.
“The way he was accusing me of lying, and then arrested me later due to criminal damage, although Christie said it was only (which broke the taxi window).
“At that time, I thought they were trying to put it on me.”
When I was asked about her comments towards PC Lovell, Kiir replied: “I have had a couple of drinks, mixed with fatigue, in a fearful and interrupted state and (Kony) is afraid of my life 15 or 20 minutes.”
She said that she regretted the way she expressed herself, but added: “I feel that the message is still relevant.”
Kiir told the court that she believed that the taxi driver “kidnapped” and Mrs. Mius and their adherence to “hostages”. At the police station, Kiir referred to Sarah Evrad, who was killed by a Metropolitan police officer Wayne Cuts in 2023, and the officers told a “girl in Clavam” who “was raped and killed.”
It is claimed that PC Lovell has said: “Do you think a taxi driver will usurp and kill you, will take you to a police station?” “You are sick.”
When I was asked why she said this, the court told: “I thought he was lighting what happened to us. I thought it was a troubled comment.”
When I was asked about another comment about “You are literally a distinctive white person,” she replied: “It was clear to me that he had no idea about the strength and privilege that he had at that moment or in life … He never had to think about what could To happen to you as a female. “
Bodyworn’s Bodyworn’s footage of PC Loverll was played with jury, as Kerr and PC Samuel Limb told him that she and MDI were “very afraid” and “trying to escape” from the cabin when they harmed the car.
Early evidence presented on Wednesday, Ker Kiir told the jury that she had taken her head out of the window when she started feeling ill before the driver “played” and started “dangerous driving”.
She said: “He accelerated and began to deviate inside and outside the corridors … We were thrown around. I couldn’t hear what he was saying. He was accelerating and stopping.
“None of us had our belts, so we stood up and tried to talk to him … I felt that he was going to anywhere he appeared … I was terrified.”
Kiir said that dangerous driving lasted for 15 and 20 minutes, adding: “I felt terrifying my life. Everything was going in my mind about being in a car with a strange person I considered dangerous. There was no reason for him. It was his way or nothing.
“Christie asked him to stop the car but there was no change in his driving. We had no idea about where we were. Christie was very an ordeal.
“I started to realize how serious the situation. He put me in a protection situation … he had the strength on us.
“We were not in control … I considered it dangerous because of driving, but also because it could have taken us anywhere. It was not possible to follow it, so no one knew our place.”
Kiir said that the husband tried to open the doors and windows several times, but they remained closed.
In the end, Mrs. Mius (the window) launched with her shoes, “which led to the feeling of” relief “, but she added:” We did not come out immediately because the car was still moving. “
I was asked the plaintiffs if she still believed that she and her partner were “kidnapped”, Kiir said she did.
In a follow -up question, I was asked if she knew that the police had advised the taxi driver to bring the husband to a police station, she replied, “I am now.”
Kiir told the jury that it did not use black taxis and exposed Uber because it considered it safer and the vehicles could be tracked.
She was born in Perth, as she referred to the Australian Claremont killer: “I lived in a state where there was a 30 -year -old serial killer who believed that he was a taxi driver. Everyone was talking about not entering a taxi.”
Care was asked about her upbringing in Australia and an experience with racism there and the United Kingdom.
It is known that the Chelsea striker The Anglo – Engelo is white, said that she saw her father and brother – of Indian origin – treated differently because of their skin color.
Kiir also said that she lived directly at school, on social media and even in shopping centers, telling the jury: “Sometimes I will follow her as a security guard.”
The trial continues.
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