[News] Sam Kerr (well someone had to)

[wellquickwoody]

Not guilty apparently.

Will this precedent allow others to escape prosecution? Correct decision? Only those with expensive lawyers could have got this result? Video evidence ignored?

Just another reason to boo Chelsea?

 

[Chicken Run]

Yep it’s a f***ing disgraceful decision, she/it/they/them is one horrible ****, i hope she shits hedgehogs for the rest of her miserable life

 

[Ernest]

I WOULD

 

[GT49er]

I don't think anyone had to say it (and it may not go down too well on NSC), but yes, there are discrepancies and anomalies in the way the justice system works - and this is probably one of them.

 

[Petunia]

I WOULD

She wouldn’t

 

[AK74]

Does she have a brother called Wayne?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Not seen any mention of her missus being done for smashing the cabbie's back window. Presumably the lawyers magic'ed that one away too

 

[The Optimist]

I haven’t read all the details but I have seen the video and I’d make the following observations:
- she was sitting and not being physically aggressive
- ‘stupid and white’ is the comment. It is not the same as calling someone ‘stupid and black / brown etc’. Why? White people don’t go through life being discriminated against because of their colour. I’d also be tempted to believe that the reference to being white is more about ‘you don’t understand what I’m explaining because you’re white and don’t experience what I do’ - I’m not saying that she’s correct in that statement.
- I can’t believe the police officer experienced any distress over the comments - if he did then maybe being in the police force is not for him.
- when racist events using worse language and in a worse context happen in football matches (John Terry, Jay Rodriguez) I’d recall people suggesting the police should become involved - an FA charge is seen as appropriate
- she was a bit of a drunk idiot, but if that’s a criminal offence a lot of the country are in trouble

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Does she have a brother called Wayne?

Yeah, eleven of them, they all play for Chelsea as well

 

[abc]

Not guilty apparently.

Will this precedent allow others to escape prosecution? Correct decision? Only those with expensive lawyers could have got this result? Video evidence ignored?

Just another reason to boo Chelsea?

Very uncomfortable with this decision. Sends so many wrong messages from how you can get away with abusing a cabbie (and how a cabbie can’t protect him/her self) to it’s ok to racially abuse a copper.

 

[Weststander]

Rich folk afford slippery effective lawyers. Remember when all the celebs and footballers escaped driving convictions by lying (perjury) through the solicitor Nick Freeman.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

I love the way in their bullshit story that they came up with that they "thought they were being kidnapped" Where was the Cabbie taking them? The police station. It wouldn't have taken a grilling from Regan and Carter to work that one out.

God only knows how they got off.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

I think anyone who has followed the case properly will understand why she hasn't been found guilty. The trial took over a week. A very Complex case with a lot to consider.

But the world of social media will just report "not guilty despite saying Stupid and White"

Will we ever learn?

 

[maffew]

- ‘stupid and white’ is the comment. It is not the same as calling someone ‘stupid and black / brown etc’.

Don't see too much difference myself, could have called him stupid and something else, stupid and a pig. As soon as you make an assumption on someone on the colour of their skin and call it out it's not much different it it black brown white pink or yellow, it's still racist

 

[hart's shirt]

Regardless of circumstances, intentions, privilege or verdict, linking skin colour with stupidity and using as a pejorative is rarely going to end up well.

 

[The Optimist]

Very uncomfortable with this decision. Sends so many wrong messages from how you can get away with abusing a cabbie (and how a cabbie can’t protect him/her self) to it’s ok to racially abuse a copper.

No one was in trial for the offences against the cabbie or criminal damage. Not sure of the background to that decision (maybe there was evidence that the cabbie drove like a nutter with them in the car).

 

[GT49er]

I love the way in their bullshit story that they came up with that they "thought they were being kidnapped" Where was the Cabbie taking them? The police station. It wouldn't have taken a grilling from Regan and Carter to work that one out.

God only knows how they got off.

God might not - but well paid lawyers and desperate to be seen 'doing the right thing' judges/magistrates will!

 

[sparkie]

Does she have a brother called Wayne?

His second name.

Üter Wayne Kerr.

 

[Bodian]

- ‘stupid and white’ is the comment. It is not the same as calling someone ‘stupid and black / brown etc’. Why? White people don’t go through life being discriminated against because of their colour. I’d also be tempted to believe that the reference to being white is more about ‘you don’t understand what I’m explaining because you’re white and don’t experience what I do’ - I’m not saying that she’s correct in that statement.

That was basically her defence I think:

She denied using whiteness as an insult and claimed: "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."

 

[GT49er]

Regardless of circumstances, intentions or final verdict, linking skin colour with stupidity and using as a pejorative is rarely going to end up well.

But it did, didn't it, except for the cabbie and the white policeman?