Explosive new Sam Kerr police video exposes ugly scene
A second video has captured the moment Matildas captain Sam Kerr launched into a rant towards police officers during a heated exchange. WARNING: Language
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Explosive new video of Sam Kerr’s heated exchange with police has shown the Matildas captain launched into an ugly rant.
On a dramatic day inside Kingston Crown Court, Kerr’s fiance Kristie Mewis broke down in tears while Kerr also told the court she did not use “whiteness as an insult”.
Mewis, 33, took the stand on Friday morning (AEDT), accusing the police of “gaslighting” the couple and claimed she felt she was being “kidnapped” and “taken hostage” by a taxi driver.
One of the most startling moments of the trial came when new footage of Kerr’s exchange with police showed the Chelsea striker calling officer Stephen Lovell “irrelevant” on the night she is alleged to have called the police constable “f***ing stupid and white”.
You can watch the dramatic footage in the video player above
Kerr is on trial charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to policeman Stephen Lovell during an incident in London in the early hours of January 30, 2023.
It is alleged that Kerr and Mewis had been returning from a night out partying when they became embroiled in a fracas in a taxi which ended up with the driver taking them to Twickenham police station in southwest London.
Video shows Kerr told Lovell: “Listen to the recording because I’ve got all the f***ing people in the world. And what’s your name?”
Footage also shows Kerr responded to one statement by saying: “File a police report, I’ve got f***ing Chelsea going on it because that is f***ed.”
The 31-year-old footballer at one point launched into a rant, saying: “I will have the best lawyers, don’t you f***ing worry. Because I would never f***ing say no to paying.
“Listen to the recording. Listen to the recording. No, that’s f***ing bulls*** because he’s a f***ing liar. That’s bulls***.
“He’s a f***ing liar and they’re listening to some f***ing black taxi man — a black cab or whatever they’re called, white taxi man, or whatever they’re called — over us two women.
“That’s a f***ing lie. I would pay whatever. That’s a lie. Why are you listening to a taxi cab over us two women.”
She went on to say: “I’m going to f***ing call my lawyer. I’m over these c**ts.”
After being told by Lovell that calling a lawyer would be “irrelevant right now”, Kerr responded: “No. I’m calling my f***ing lawyer. Because this is a f***ing racial f***ing thing.
“Because you are not letting me go because you are believing that guy out the front over 50 pounds?”
It is at that point in the released footage that Lovell tells Kerr: “You need to calm yourself down little missy”.
Kerr said she and Mewis did not “give a f***” about paying the costs to have the taxi cleaned.
However, later in the same video, Kerr is heard saying: “I’m not paying for f***ing some f***ing dodgy c**ts window”.
Footage shown earlier in the trial also captured the moment Kerr showed Lovell the contents of her bank account “as if to say ‘look, I could easily afford to pay for any damage to the taxi’.”
The cab driver has claimed they had refused to pay clean-up costs after one of them vomited, and one of the two then smashed the cab’s back window.
Mewis takes stand
Taking the stand for the first time, a tearful Mewis said the cab fracas was “like nothing I’ve experienced”.
“I’ve never driven a car that fast before. I immediately felt fear for my life,” the UK Press Association news agency reported her as saying.
“That was obviously very scary … I didn’t know if it was a kidnapping or if we were going to crash”.
Mewis said she deemed the tax driver to be “dangerous” and there as “no reasoning with him”.
When the pair were dropped at the police station by the taxi, Mewis said Officer Lovell was “immediately dismissive”.
“We were saying we had been taken against our will, we couldn’t get out.
“He wasn’t believing what we were saying,” she said.
“In my opinion, (the police) were trying to change the story and make it into something it wasn’t.
“It felt a little bit like gaslighting … the story (they) repeated back was different or they were manipulating it back onto us.”
Kerr: ‘Whiteness as an insult’
At the police station, Kerr, who is mixed race, is alleged to have become “abusive and insulting” towards Officer Lovell, calling him “stupid and white”.
At Kingston Crown Court on Thursday, Kerr was asked by prosecutors if she was using Mr Lovell’s “whiteness as an insult”.
She responded: “No, that’s not what I meant”.
“I believed it was him using his power and privilege over me because he was accusing me of being something I’m not … I was trying to express that due to the power and privilege they had they would never have to understand what we had just gone through and the fear we were having for our lives,” she said.
Asked if she was saying Mr Lovell was “stupid because he was white”, Kerr said: “No”.
The court heard on Wednesday that Kerr had told police “this is a racial … thing”.
When asked about these comments, Kerr said: “I believed (they) were treating me differently because of what they perceived to be the colour of my skin — particularly PC Lovell’s behaviour”.
“The way he was accusing me of lying, and later arresting me for criminal damage even though Kristie said it was just her (who smashed the taxi’s window).
“At the time, I thought they were trying to put it on me.”
She added on Thursday: “(It was) the way he was responding to me, cutting me off, names he was calling me, being dismissive.”
Kerr made her debut for current Women’s Super League champions Chelsea in 2020. She is currently out of action with a knee injury.
Originally published as Explosive new Sam Kerr police video exposes ugly scene
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