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Speaker 1: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, February sixth Make Gaza great again. That's Donald

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Speaker 1: this is a Trump gamble that will define the region

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Speaker 1: and his presidency. You can read that and all our

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Speaker 1: experts analysis right now at the Australian dot com dot au.

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Speaker 1: The ABC hired casual presenter Antoinette Latouf is part of

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Speaker 1: its Diverse Talent identification program. The Federal Court has heard

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Speaker 1: the broadcaster let Latouf go.

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Speaker 2: After just three days after.

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Speaker 1: Objecting to her social media posts about the Middle East.

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Speaker 1: Australia's soccer sweetheart Sam Kerr is facing a jury in London.

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Speaker 1: She's pleaded not guilty to intentionally causing racially aggravated harassment,

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Speaker 1: alarm or distress to a police officer in January twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. So what did ker say in that intoxicated

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Speaker 1: moment and in hindsight.

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Speaker 2: Before we begin.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of swearing in this episode.

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Speaker 2: In Australia, Sam Kerr is a superstar and.

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Speaker 3: Here is Carr. Two goals in two minutes and Sam

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Speaker 3: Karr has now written her name into the pantheon of

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Speaker 3: Australian football, the outright all time leading goalscorer goal number

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Speaker 3: fifty one in love.

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Speaker 1: She's not quite a nobody. She's the star striker at Chelsea.

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Speaker 4: Sam ker with the two goals foot through the Chelsea

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Speaker 4: Champions winning here by three goals to them.

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Speaker 1: But she's not the kind of person who taxi drivers

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Speaker 1: Kerve found herself sitting in twicken And Police station, having

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Speaker 1: been dropped off by the driver of one of London's

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Speaker 1: famous black cabs after a night out went wrong. In

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Speaker 1: this bodycam footage played to the court, it's past three

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Speaker 1: am and a weary cop PC Stephen Lovell is trying

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Speaker 1: to talk to Kerr, who's fairly weary herself after a

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Speaker 1: massive night out. She's sprawled on the kind of plastic

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Speaker 5: Did you stay on the phone long enough to even

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Speaker 1: The cabby was furious because during the journey with her

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Speaker 1: and her now fiance, Christy Mwis, someone vomited and a

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Speaker 1: window got smashed.

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Speaker 2: He refused to let.

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Speaker 1: Her and her girlfriend out of the cab until they

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Speaker 1: paid for the damage, and then he brought them to

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Speaker 1: the police station. Kerr is telling the cops she was

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Speaker 1: so panicked by the situation she tried to call emergency services,

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Speaker 1: but she says they hung up on her.

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Speaker 6: Okay, but they wouldn't do that. Though they wouldn't do that,

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Speaker 6: you should have spoken to the honestly.

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Speaker 7: You have stupid and white, okay.

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Speaker 2: And this is the bit that's landed her in court.

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Speaker 7: Up on stupid. I'm fucking over this ship.

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Speaker 4: This is the world fucking problem.

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Speaker 8: Wait on the call, Wait on the call, Wait on

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Speaker 8: the fucking call.

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Speaker 4: The taxi driver says, I wanted to get paid. They

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Speaker 4: were refusing to pay the fare. I've rung the police

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Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magne is The Australian's europe correspondent. She's been in

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Speaker 1: court where the jury has been told. Once k got

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Speaker 1: resolved when sam Ko agreed to pay. She's agreed to

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Speaker 1: pay nearly two thousand Australian dollars in damage. It was

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Speaker 1: then was that relating to racial aggravation and harassment and

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Speaker 5: This interview is being tape recorded. Time is twenty two

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Speaker 5: forty eight. On the thirty January twenty twenty three, I'MPC

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Speaker 1: Later that day at another London police station, Kerr was

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Speaker 7: Samantha Kerr tenth the nineteen ninety three.

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Speaker 6: We're in an interview from two at Kingston Police Station.

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Speaker 1: You also confirmed Kerr declined the offer of legal assistance.

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Speaker 2: It's a voluntary interview.

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Speaker 6: So in your own words, what happened prior to your arrest?

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Speaker 7: Well, I was in a taxi and.

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Speaker 8: We I did vomit outside the window, and from that

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Speaker 7: Us both very very scared.

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Speaker 2: Kerr said she never refused to pay the driver.

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Speaker 5: So do you remember speaking to PC level at all,

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Speaker 6: I think that's wrong. Short was he.

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Speaker 7: Vote to three officers.

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Speaker 8: And honestly like didn't feel very helped. And that think

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Speaker 1: Kerr said she felt the officers were pressuring her to

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Speaker 1: Metropolitan Police appealed that decision. In a statement taken ten

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Speaker 1: months after the incident, PC Stephen Lovell said Kerr had

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Speaker 1: she was a well known soccer player. He agreed that

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Speaker 6: So do you remember saying what's the effect of quote?

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Speaker 6: You guys are fucking stupid and whites? Honestly, you guys

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Speaker 6: looking you in the eyes. You guys are fucking stupid.

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Speaker 7: I definitely did not recall sing that.

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Speaker 6: Would you perceive these comments as racist?

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Speaker 7: No, because I wasn't. I don't recall saying that, so no.

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Speaker 1: PC Skinner plays the footage for Kerr in which she

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Speaker 1: and Mwers are increasingly agitated, especially that girl at Clapham.

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Speaker 1: Kerr is talking about a case that's haunted.

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Speaker 4: Londoner's well, Sarah Everard case is so shocking. So it

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Speaker 2: Sarah Everard's murder prompted.

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Speaker 1: Outrage from women living in London who said they could

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Speaker 1: and Sam Kerr invoked the case when trying to explain

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Speaker 4: I think those comments reflect perhaps Sam Kerr's inexperience it

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Speaker 1: Coming up how Sam Kerr says she wishes she'd handled

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Speaker 1: the situation. You can followed this case live plus all

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Speaker 1: Australian dot com dot au. We'll be back after this break.

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Speaker 1: In a police interview, when Sam Kerr is replayed the

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Speaker 1: video of herself calling the cops fucking stupid and white,

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Speaker 8: This, but yeah, I was obviously intoxicated and I like

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Speaker 2: In court, ker told the jury she'd been terrified for

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Speaker 1: She said she began to feel sick during the drive

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Speaker 1: Ker told the jury she felt PC Lovell had no

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Speaker 6: These words could be perceived as racist.

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Speaker 8: I'm aware that anything can be perceived as racist.

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Speaker 7: For sure. I was very.

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Speaker 8: Emotional and very I didn't feel heard and I didn't

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Speaker 1: So the case is being heard in front of the

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Speaker 1: jury in Kingston Crown Court. The charge racially aggravated harassment

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Speaker 1: She's captain of the Matildas, although out with a long

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Speaker 1: term injury. Kurz pleaded not guilty in this matter, and

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Speaker 1: in her police interview apologized for the whole event.

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Speaker 8: I wish I had just had of obviously just gone home,

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Speaker 1: Jacqueline Magnet is The Australian's europe correspondent. The trial continues

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