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Speaker 1: And joining me now from the UK is Gevin greg

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Speaker 1: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Devin, good morning that.

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Speaker 1: Hey tell me what's the reaction being to footballer Sam

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Speaker 1: kurb being found not guilty of causing racially aggravated harassment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Sanka of course, is the Australian international

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Speaker 2: women's football or a major superstar as well. Thirty one

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Speaker 2: years old plays for Chelsea as a striker in the

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Speaker 2: Women's Football League. She's been found not guilty of that charge,

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Speaker 2: which could have led to a two year prison centence.

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Speaker 2: The jury clear in relation to an incident back in Twickenham,

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Speaker 2: which is southwest London, back in January of twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: The thirty one year old had always said in the

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Speaker 2: court that she was antagonized by officers when she was

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Speaker 2: taken to a police station following a dispute with a

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Speaker 2: taxi driver in which the one of she and her

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Speaker 2: partner one of them was sick in the back. A

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Speaker 2: window was kicked in the taxi driver Drodan's police station,

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Speaker 2: demanding compensation and to get the cab cleaned up, and

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Speaker 2: during the discussion with the police officer about what had happened,

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Speaker 2: she was caught using the words you're stupid and white. Now,

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Speaker 2: that was where really this whole whole court case hung.

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Speaker 2: Was that racially motivated? She denied it amounted to a

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Speaker 2: racial offense. The jury agreed with her, But as the

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Speaker 2: prosecutor said, what had happened if somebody would have said,

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Speaker 2: you're stupid and black, because of course that was what

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Speaker 2: the prosecution was saying, it was clearly racist.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Gray, thank you very much for the update. Appreciate it.

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