A white lawyer was convicted for spitting on a Black high school student during a 2020 anti-racism march in a Milwaukee suburb. A jury reached the verdict Wednesday in the trial of Stephanie Rapkin, finding her guilty of misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
A jury reached the verdict Wednesday in the trial of Stephanie Rapkin, 67, of Shorewood, Wisconsin, finding her guilty of misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
Rapkin faces sentencing for the misdemeanor charge later this week and is charged separately with a felony assault on a police officer who arrested her at her home the day after the spitting incident. In June of 2020, Rapkin showed up at the protest in Shorewood and parked her car in the street, blocking the anti-racism march that was one of thousands held around the U.S. in the wake of the murder of When protesters approached her to urge her to move her car, video shows Rapkin spitting on Eric Lucas, then a 17-year-old junior at Shorewood High School. Lucas had helped organize and lead the march.
According to the criminal complaint, Rapkin told an investigating officer she was a cancer survivor and felt threatened because she was surrounded by protesters who were not wearing coronavirus protective masks.In court on Tuesday, Rapkin said that she spit toward Lucas, but not on him, Defense attorney Anthony Cotton told reporters following the trial that Rapkin is remorseful and that her career has been ruined.
She’s still charged with assaulting a police officer, according to court documents, and is scheduled for a trial Shorewood police went to Rapkin’s home the day after the protest following her encounter with the protesters. She resisted arrest and kneed one officer in the groin, the criminal complaint said.
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