This is the kind of racism that very rarely gets talked about.
End violence from women and girls
This is what happens when you have laws that make speech an offence. I might not agree with her, but I don’t think she should face prison time for this. Nor should anyone else for saying something stupid while drunk.
Perhaps it’s just bad reporting but it sounds like she’s on trial just for this and not for this:
“The driver later called the police to complain that a woman inside his taxi was trying to smash the rear window.”
If so, this seems a prime issue with how these laws are implemented. That actual criminal damage is not being prosecuted (or if it is the news isn’t reporting it), whilst offensive language is.
The whole Kerr family are a bunch of fucken grubs. The lot of them have been arrested at some point or another for scumbag behaviour.
> She added: “The words were a comment, however poorly expressed, about positions of power, about privilege, and how those things might colour perception.”
That is so funny it could be in a comedy sketch show.
Imagine being a millionaire and instead of paying £50 towards the cleaning of the taxi your girlfriend threw up in, choosing to smash your way out through the back window.
>Prosecution barrister Bill Emlyn Jones KC told the jury the comments left PC Lovell “shocked, upset, and humiliated”.
Now, I may be wrong – but I look forward to this officer being cross-examined;
There must be a person within the sight or hearing of the suspect who is likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress by the conduct in question. A police officer may be such a person, but this is a question of fact to be decided in each case by the magistrates. In determining this, the magistrates may take into account the familiarity which police officers have with the words and conduct typically seen in incidents of disorderly conduct. (*DPP v Orum* (1989) Cr App R 261.)
The officer would have to be genuinely “shocked, upset, and humiliated”.
And remember, if it’s not true and you’ve put it in a statement, that’s perjury and misconduct in public office.
Before the good people of Reddit pile-on, don’t dislike that I am pointing this out. Dislike that the courts think it’s fine to treat the Peelers this way…
Frankly, if you can’t put up with some verbals from a drunk who’s smashed up a taxi, the police might not be the career for you. Just nick them for criminal damage or drunk and disorderly, far simpler.
Didn’t she also throw up in a cab and refuse to clean it up or pay for it to be cleaned?
Imagine she’d called someone ‘stupid and black’
Guilty as charged. Next!
We will see how it reflects on the body cam footage….
Isn’t her misses pregnant yet they’d been out drinking
As so often I’m not sure who to like least in this scenario.
Obviously, this woman’s behaviour is awful.
I’m also forced to point out that the only reason she’s being prosecuted for it is because the putative victim was a police officer (and yes, it’s going to be embarrassing watching him stand in court and relate how cut up he was about it).
This sort of staggering hypocrisy is quite often directed against anyone who isn’t a member of a fashionable victim group and almost never is anything done about it.
It’s been true for a long time that the most outspoken prejudice most often comes from members of special interest groups, because they’re fully aware that they can – usually – get away with it. I am not sure where anyone expects this to lead in the long term but for the time being this sort of thing is not a surprise.
I don’t understand how you can be a footballer yet look so unfit/overweight at the same time.
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Will she be treated the same as any other racist?
This is the kind of racism that very rarely gets talked about.
End violence from women and girls
This is what happens when you have laws that make speech an offence. I might not agree with her, but I don’t think she should face prison time for this. Nor should anyone else for saying something stupid while drunk.
Perhaps it’s just bad reporting but it sounds like she’s on trial just for this and not for this:
“The driver later called the police to complain that a woman inside his taxi was trying to smash the rear window.”
If so, this seems a prime issue with how these laws are implemented. That actual criminal damage is not being prosecuted (or if it is the news isn’t reporting it), whilst offensive language is.
The whole Kerr family are a bunch of fucken grubs. The lot of them have been arrested at some point or another for scumbag behaviour.
> She added: “The words were a comment, however poorly expressed, about positions of power, about privilege, and how those things might colour perception.”
That is so funny it could be in a comedy sketch show.
According to [Reuters:](https://www.reuters.com/sports/soccer/womens-soccer-star-sam-kerr-racially-abused-police-officer-prosecutor-tells-uk-2025-02-03/)
>”You guys are fucking stupid and white.”
She’s a right grub
Imagine being a millionaire and instead of paying £50 towards the cleaning of the taxi your girlfriend threw up in, choosing to smash your way out through the back window.
>Prosecution barrister Bill Emlyn Jones KC told the jury the comments left PC Lovell “shocked, upset, and humiliated”.
Now, I may be wrong – but I look forward to this officer being cross-examined;
There must be a person within the sight or hearing of the suspect who is likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress by the conduct in question. A police officer may be such a person, but this is a question of fact to be decided in each case by the magistrates. In determining this, the magistrates may take into account the familiarity which police officers have with the words and conduct typically seen in incidents of disorderly conduct. (*DPP v Orum* (1989) Cr App R 261.)
[https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/public-order-offences-incorporating-charging-standard](https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/public-order-offences-incorporating-charging-standard)
The officer would have to be genuinely “shocked, upset, and humiliated”.
And remember, if it’s not true and you’ve put it in a statement, that’s perjury and misconduct in public office.
Before the good people of Reddit pile-on, don’t dislike that I am pointing this out. Dislike that the courts think it’s fine to treat the Peelers this way…
Frankly, if you can’t put up with some verbals from a drunk who’s smashed up a taxi, the police might not be the career for you. Just nick them for criminal damage or drunk and disorderly, far simpler.
Didn’t she also throw up in a cab and refuse to clean it up or pay for it to be cleaned?
Imagine she’d called someone ‘stupid and black’
Guilty as charged. Next!
We will see how it reflects on the body cam footage….
Isn’t her misses pregnant yet they’d been out drinking
As so often I’m not sure who to like least in this scenario.
Obviously, this woman’s behaviour is awful.
I’m also forced to point out that the only reason she’s being prosecuted for it is because the putative victim was a police officer (and yes, it’s going to be embarrassing watching him stand in court and relate how cut up he was about it).
This sort of staggering hypocrisy is quite often directed against anyone who isn’t a member of a fashionable victim group and almost never is anything done about it.
It’s been true for a long time that the most outspoken prejudice most often comes from members of special interest groups, because they’re fully aware that they can – usually – get away with it. I am not sure where anyone expects this to lead in the long term but for the time being this sort of thing is not a surprise.
I don’t understand how you can be a footballer yet look so unfit/overweight at the same time.
Is it racist if she’s also white?
She’s white
John Terry wouldn’t stand for it
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