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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jun 13, 2020, 08:08 PM Jun 2020

White Wisconsin lawyer was charged with a hate crime after spitting on a 17-year-old Black protester

Stephanie Rapkin, right, was arrested on Saturday after video, left, showed her spitting at a black teen protester.

Facebook/Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office

The Wisconsin lawyer who was caught on video spitting on a 17-year-old Black protester at a Black Lives Matters demonstration near Milwaukee has been charged with a hate crime.

Stephanie Rapkin could face up to a year in jail for the incident in which she parked her car in the way of the anti-racism protest before confronting 17-year-old Eric Lucas, according to a criminal complaint reported by Wisconsin's WTMJ.

Lucas approached Rapkin surrounded by other protesters while chanting "I'm black and I'm proud," according to the complaint, and as he approached her, Rapkin spit at him, which landed on his face and mouth area, and on the top of his shirt.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-wisconsin-lawyer-charged-hate-142007347.html

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White Wisconsin lawyer was charged with a hate crime after spitting on a 17-year-old Black protester (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
There goes her ticket (Bar license). Dustlawyer Jun 2020 #1
Good malaise Jun 2020 #2
Hope Lucas doesn't get covid I_UndergroundPanther Jun 2020 #3
And then she kneed a cop, from the article irisblue Jun 2020 #4

irisblue

(32,962 posts)
4. And then she kneed a cop, from the article
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:39 PM
Jun 2020

snip-"Rapkin was arrested again one day after the incident on charges of battery and disorderly conduct, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel previously reported, when she resisted arrest and kneed an officer in the groin. The charge has a maximum penalty of six years in jail if convicted, according to the complaint."

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