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Stephanie Rapkin, right, was arrested on Saturday after video, left, showed her spitting at a black teen protester.
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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
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)She will get a suspension at a minimum whether or not she goes to jail.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)From the spit from that filthy republican trash.
irisblue
(32,962 posts)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."