Body Cam Footage Shows Kerr’s Outrageous Comments to Arresting Officer

Kerr’s alleged racial harassment shown | 00:50

Chelsea and Australia striker Sam Kerr called a British police officer “stupid and white” during an incident at a police station, a jury was told on Monday.

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Kerr, 31, is on trial charged with causing racially aggravated harassment to the officer during an incident in London in the early hours of January 30, 2023.

It is alleged that Kerr and her partner, fellow footballer Kristie Mewis, had been out drinking when they were driven to the police station in southwest London by a taxi driver.

The driver complained the passengers refused to pay clean-up costs after one of them vomited, and that one of them smashed the vehicle’s rear window.

At the police station, Kerr is alleged to have become “abusive and insulting” towards police constable Stephen Lovell.

Footage from Lovell’s body camera was played to a jury sitting at Kingston Crown Court on Monday, in which Kerr tells Lovell: “Honestly, you guys are f***ing stupid and white.

“I’m f***ing over this s***. This is the world’s f***ing problem.”

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones told the jury: “The defendant’s comments towards PC Lovell left him shocked, upset, and humiliated.

“He took offence to the comments that Ms Kerr made about his race because you may think that his being a white man really had nothing to do with anything.”

The prosecutor added: “Ms Kerr denied that she intended to cause PC Lovell harassment, alarm or distress.

“She said ‘I was just very angry at how I felt.’ She described the entire situation as distressing and ‘a heated moment’.

“Ms Kerr said that both herself and Ms Mewis were crying at the time.”

Sam Kerr during her exchange with a British police officer, as seen from bodycam footage.Source: Supplied

Kerr, who is of mixed race, last year pleaded not guilty to the offence.

Grace Forbes, defending, told jurors on Monday: “Nobody disputes the words that were said. But simple words, even words like these, do not make you guilty of a criminal offence.”

She added: “The words were a comment, however poorly expressed, about positions of power, about privilege, and how those things might colour perception.”

Emlyn Jones presented a timeline of the alleged events, telling the court Kerr said she and Mewis believed they were being kidnapped by the driver, who refused to let them out after she was sick in the vehicle.

The taxi driver first called police to lodge a complaint that a woman in his vehicle was attempting to smash a window.

The driver was then advised by an emergency services phone operator to drive to Twickenham Police Station.

PC Lovell and another officer were the first police to attend the scene after the taxi driver parked behind their marked police vehicle and sounded the car’s horn to get the officers’ attention.

Emlyn Jones said the officers at the scene “noticed smashed glass in the road and saw that a taxi was parked outside the police station”.

He went on to allege: “The officers saw Ms Kerr crawling out of the broken rear window of the taxi.

“They felt that the taxi driver was kidnapping them and so they broke the rear window in order to escape and raise the alarm.”

Kerr made her debut for current Women’s Super League champions Chelsea in 2020. She is currently out of action with a knee injury.