Chelsea striker Sam Kerr called a police officer “f------ stupid and white” after smashing a taxi window during a drunken night out, a trial has heard.

Kerr is accused of intentionally causing “racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress to a police officer” in January 2023. She has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones told jurors at Kingston Crown Court that Kerr had ordered a black taxi after a night out with her partner, United States international Kristie Mewis.

Emlyn Jones said the driver phoned the police to complain that a woman inside his taxi was trying to smash the rear window. An operator advised the driver to pull up outside Twickenham Police Station and seek the help of officers there.

PC Stephen Lovell and PC Samuel Limb were in a marked police car driving towards the police station at 2.20am. The officers saw smashed glass around the taxi as well as Kerr attempting to crawl out through the broken rear window.

Kerr and Mewis told police officers that the driver had refused to take them home and that they felt they were being “kidnapped” and “held hostage” so had smashed the window in an attempt to escape.

The driver told police he had phoned them after one of the women had been sick in the back of his car and was refusing to pay for the damage.

Kerr and Mewis said they had also phoned the police while they were in the taxi but according to the control room only one call had been made, by the taxi driver. Mewis told officers that they were internationals and did not know the UK emergency number. Kerr said they had pressed the emergency button on her phone and had spoken to a woman.

When PC Lovell tried to explain the situation to Kerr and Mewis, he claimed they became verbally abusive. He also commented that both women were heavily intoxicated.

PC Lovell said he tried a number of times to explain to them what the driver had said but they kept interrupting him.

He then said that Kerr used her phone to show him the content of her bank account as if to say she could easily afford to pay for any damage if she wanted to, which Lovell said made him feel “belittled.”

Kerr also told the police officers she would get Chelsea’s legal team on the case and that she would have the “best lawyers.” It is understood there was a Chelsea member of staff present at court.

The court was played bodycam footage in which Kerr could be heard to have said: “You guys are stupid and white. You guys are f------ stupid and white.

“I’m looking you in the eyes, I’m looking you in the eyes, you guys are f------ stupid, I’m f------ over this s---.”

PC Lovell then arrested Kerr for criminal damage and then racially aggravated public order.

After this Kerr and Mewis agreed they would pay for damage so were de-arrested for criminal damage.

Kerr does not dispute the words that were used but rejects that they were abusive or insulting within the terms of the offence.

PC Lovell said the comments from Kerr had made him feel “upset.”

The Chelsea forward also told police that she and Mewis had asked the driver to stop five or six times so they could pay for their fare.

Kerr said that, as two women, she and Mewis were scared and felt a “sense of emergency” after being “trapped” with a male driver for 20 minutes.

She also referenced how a woman in Clapham had been raped and killed after getting into a police officer’s car in an apparent reference to the case involving Sarah Everard, who was raped and killed by Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens in 2021.

At the time of the incident, Mewis was still living in the United States. She signed for West Ham United in December 2023 and now lives with Kerr in London. The couple, who became engaged in 2023, are expecting a child this year.

Defence barrister Grace Forbes told jurors Kerr did not feel hostile towards PC Lovell because he is white. “The words were a comment, however poorly expressed, about position of power, privilege and about how those things might colour perception,” Forbes said.

Kerr is Australia’s all-time leading goalscorer with 69 goals. The alleged incident took place in Twickenham, south-west London, on January 30, 2023, a day after Kerr had scored a hat-trick in Chelsea’s FA Cup victory over Liverpool.

The 31-year-old, who has scored 99 goals in 128 appearances for Chelsea, has not played in over a year after rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in January 2024.

The forward sustained the injury a week before she was charged via postal charge requisition. She signed a new contract with Chelsea that runs until 2026 last summer.

Kerr, who is expected to give evidence on Tuesday, wore all black as she stood in the dock.

Emlyn Jones said that Kerr identifies as being white Anglo-Indian, which was relevant to the charge.

She was supported at court by her father, Roger, mother, Roxanne, and brother, Levi.

The trial continues.