Kerr remembers the racism experienced in Australia, denies the ‘start’ in the taxi

Australia’s football star, Sam Kerr, has denied that he was “drunk and began” in the back of a London taxi before the unfortunate exchange with the police that led her to be judged by an offensive of publicly aggravated public order in A British court.

On a day of drainage in the witness box, Matildas captain revived the racism that his family suffered in Australia, spoke of his similar experiences in England and reiterated that she and her partner Kristie Mewis were “terrified” and feared they were ” Kidnapped “by the taxi driver.

In a lighter note, the trial doubled as an unusual gender revelation when Kerr said that his American fiancee Mewis took a baby, due in May.

Kerr took the position on the third day of the trial and faced a demanding half an hour of interrogation of Top London Kc Bill Emlyn Jones, who last month was successfully processing the case of Sara Sharif, a 10 -year -old boy killed by her father and its stepmother.

Jones caused Kerr to an agreement that “you were so drunk that you were sick,” but denied that she “was starting in the back because you were drunk, had misunderstood what was happening and your behavior became excitable.”

Kerr said that his memory of the night was “decently good”, although he could not remember anything from the driver who was described by the lawyer as a “strong Asian accent” (which in the United Kingdom is likely to mean from the Indian subcontinent).

This was relevant, since before Kerr had told his own advice, Grace Forbes, “I believed that (the police) treated me differently depending on what they perceived was the color of my skin, particularly PC Lovell.”

Police agent Stephen Lovell is officer Ker two times “F ——– stupid and white” in the early hours of January 30, 2023, which leads to being accused of racially aggravated harassment with the intention of Cause alarm or anguish.

The attitude of PC Lovell “was triggered,” Kerr said.

“I felt that I had experienced this, the people who tried to put things on how I see myself, who I am.”

Kerr, composed mainly of behavior and with a white long-sleeved top with his tied hair, described how he had “witnessed my brother (former star of the eagles of the west coast, Daniel) and his father (Roger, who was Anglo- Indian, and it is in court) experience racism due to the color of their skin. “

Racism, he added, “it had always been a delicate issue growing, it had been prominent in Australia with the indigenous population. I had about nine or ten when I first witnessed it. I was quite confused, then sad.”

At school it was labeled as “a problem when it was clearly not.” Even now, “in a shopping center, if not dressed correctly, the guards or security personnel follow me.”

Kerr explained after one night in downtown London, she and Mewis tried to call an Uber, who prefer since the application has a shared travel function so that friends can track a trip.

Unable to do so, they took a taxi, which Kerr said that he normally avoids for security reasons, pointing out that he had grown up of speculation “Claremont Killer” Bradley Edwards, who was sentenced in 2020 for two murders in 1996 and 1997, was a taxi driver .

The 40 -minute home trip was fine until Kerr, feeling nausea, put his head out the window and began to vomit. At this point, he said, the taxi driver began to shout and drive “dangerously and erratically”, accelerating and diverting the round corners.

None of the women wore the seat belt, so they were being thrown around the taxi. Kerr said he feared for his life, both scared to crash and a strange “have power over us.”

Mewis was distressed and Kerr said he felt protective. “That is the role that I perform in the relationship, I am the most masculine. It simply seems to me, because of the lack of a better phrase, the role of man man.”

When the taxi stopped by a police station and the officers arrived, “he felt relieved”, but he was scared again when “he felt something doubtful was happening, I felt they were trying to receive me for criminal damage”, after Mewis had Broken a Taxi window trying to escape.

That finally led to its abuse of PC Lovell. Seeing the exchange in a video recording, he said: “It is difficult to see. I am ashamed to see that, the way I was acting, but also looking at me in so much anguish.”

Mewis will take the position on Thursday after Kerr’s interrogation is over.