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Very disappointing outcome in my opinion. In comparison, calling someone "stupid and black" could well have seen a spell in the clink. I suppose the composition of the jury could have been a factor- a good defence team would have ensured the jury fitted their spec. I have no admiration for this woman or her friends for their drunken unreasonable behaviour and their attempt to play the race card by referring to/implying white privilege for just doing his job.
That plod needs to grow a pair. In his first statement he made no mention of the supposed impact her words had on him. Yet, in his 2nd statement, he said he was "shocked, upset" and felt "humiliated" by her remarks.
If he hasn't suffered much stronger insults than "stupid and white", he hasn't been out much.
Soft sod.
If this were two trollied white male premiership players calling a female officer black and stupid, we would already be on page 7 never mind answer 7.
They would have been stripped of their livelihood in a blink of an eye.
The prosecutor said that she chose to "demonstrate … hostility to him because of his whiteness".
"That's not what I meant," Ms Kerr replied.
"That is what you did though, isn't it."
"Yes," she admitted.
😶
Perhaps some of those on the jury suspected that the PC had been coerced into embellishing his original statement a tad once the decision to press charges had been made - almost a year after the incident.
I do hope she and her partner have been made to pay the bill for the cleaning and repair to the taxi.
Leaves a bit of a bad taste, this...
She admitted that she said what she was claimed to have said, that should have been sufficient for her to have been found guilty.
However, when my parents were 'in the job', police officers had to just ignore any names they were called, as they were considered to be 'uninsultable'.....
Seems that times have changed somewhat.
Like jackthehat, this leaves a bit of a bad taste with me as well, although as acquitted by a jury it's difficult to argue against.
I see the "white privilege" card was played by the defence against the copper who was merely doing his job.
I would suggest it is a safe assumption what the verdict would have been if it was white on black.
Surely whether something is "racially aggravated harassment" ought not have anything to do with whether the individual it is aimed at is able to control their reaction to it. The act is either ok or it is not ok. Otherwise, applied elsewhere, all sorts of things could go either way despite the particular action being identical in each circumstance. That's hardly applying justice fairly.
She'd had too much to drink, chucked up in the back of the taxi and wanted to get out without paying. The taxi driver did nothing wrong in calling the police and driving around to the police station to let them deal with her.
The problem is that the charge wasn't being drunk and disorderly, it was for racially aggravated harrassment ... by a drunk in a police cell! Worse than that, as in the link in the OP ...
It can now be reported that Ms Kerr's legal team attempted to get the case thrown out at a preliminary hearing, arguing there had been an abuse of process by crown prosecutors.
Ms Kerr's lawyer Grace Forbes said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had violated its own guidance, adding that a "loophole" in the victims' right of review scheme was used to justify prosecution proceedings a year after the alleged offence.
What a waste. It's not like there are loads of time and money sloshing around in the court system ...
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