Attorney Who Spat At Teen BLM Protester Gets $760K For Cops Bursting Into Her Home Without A Warrant
A Wisconsin lawyer who spat at a teen Black Lives Matter protest leader has been awarded $760,000 because cops wrongly burst into her home with guns drawn to arrest her without a warrant.
Stephanie Rapkin eventually
served 60 days in jail after being filmed spitting on a high schooler during a tense showdown at a march in Shorewood on June 6, 2020.
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But she was not arrested until the day after the spitting incident when protesters showed up at her home “to confront her” and “verbally berate her” — with one accusing her of pushing him, according to a complaint
shared by the Atlanta Black Star.
The 20-year-old accuser called cops, with one of the responding officers heard on bodycam saying, “This is the chick that did the spitting in the kid’s face.”
After reviewing video of the alleged push, cops spent 30 minutes knocking on the lawyer’s doors and windows while discussing plans to arrest her, the suit said.
“If she comes out, arrest her,” one officer said.
The cops then “conspired to come up with a justification to break into her house” without a search warrant, the complaint states.
A Wisconsin lawyer who spat at a teen Black Lives Matter protest leader has been awarded $760,000 because cops wrongly burst into her home with guns drawn to arrest her without a warrant.
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