A white Wisconsin lawyer was arrested after she was caught on video spitting at a 17-year-old Black protester
- Stephanie Rapkin, 64, was arrested on Saturday after she was caught on video spitting at Eric Lucas, 17, during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Shorewood, Wisconsin.
- Rapkin, a lawyer, was arrested again on Sunday, accused of pushing another protester outside her house in the Milwaukee suburb.
- People have called for Rapkin to be disbarred, and an official complaint has been filed with Wisconsin's Office of Lawyer Regulation.
- Lucas said he was "mentally and physically shaken to be assaulted by an adult in my own community during a pandemic."
A 64-year-old Wisconsin lawyer was arrested on Saturday after she was caught on video spitting at a 17-year-old Black boy taking part in a Black Lives Matters protest in Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that videos showed Stephanie Rapkin, who is white, parking her car in the middle of a street that protesters were marching down and refusing to move it.
The videos show her getting into a verbal altercation with protesters, including Eric Lucas, a student at Shorewood High School, who starts yelling a chant at her.
Rapkin can be seen spitting in his face, prompting some of the other protesters to separate the two.
Rapkin was arrested on Saturday evening on charges of battery and disorderly conduct, according to Urban Milwaukee.
At a Monday press conference, Lucas said he was "mentally and physically shaken to be assaulted by an adult in my own community during a pandemic."
"Again and again I am viewed not as a child but as a color," Lucas said, according to WDJT.
Rapkin was arrested again on Sunday. The police said that she shoved another protester who was part of a small group gathering outside her home, where, Urban Milwaukee reported, messages like "Racist lives here" and "I spit on a child" were written in chalk on the sidewalk.
The police said Rapkin resisted arrest and kneed an officer in the groin, the Journal Sentinel reported. She was then charged with battery to a law-enforcement officer and resisting/obstructing an officer.
She remains in the Milwaukee County Jail, with bail set at $950, online inmate records show.
According to Urban Milwaukee, Rapkin works as an estate-planning and probate lawyer. People have called for Rapkin to be disbarred.
The Journal Sentinel obtained a copy of a complaint that Michael Maistelman, an election-law attorney, filed against Rapkin with the state's Office of Lawyer Regulation.
The office is in charge of investigating complaints against lawyers and making recommendations to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which can fine, suspend, or disbar lawyers, the newspaper said.
The Office of Lawyer Regulation did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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