Sophia Rosing's attorney said the 22-year-old, arrested on campus at the University of Kentucky, is 'very embarrassed about what happened.'
A white University of Kentucky student caught on video hurling racial slurs in a disturbing attack against a Black student plans to withdraw from the school, her attorney said on Tuesday.
Sophia Rosing, a senior at the school, was arrested on Sunday after an altercation with freshman Kylah Spring took place at a residence hall on campus.“She is very embarrassed about what happened,” Fred Peters, Rosing’s attorney, told HuffPost.A spokesperson for the University of Kentucky said that the school could not “provide any additional information at the moment.”
On Monday, Rosing, 22, was charged with first and second offenses of public intoxication, third-degree assault of a police officer, fourth-degree assault and second-degree disorderly conduct, the Associated Pressshared on multiple social media platforms shows Spring, who is Black, trying to restrain Rosing, who repeatedly calls her the N-word throughout the physical and verbal attack. Spring can be heard asking Rosing, who is white, to stop more than once.
“I don’t get paid enough for this,” Spring said in the video. She was working an overnight shift as a desk clerk at the residence hall.In a video recounting the incident on TikTok, Spring accused Rosing of kicking, biting and punching her. She claimed Rosing also attacked another student during the ordeal. Anotheronline shows Rosing repeatedly singing the N-word while being detained by a police officer.
An officer said in an arrest affidavit that Rosing said at one point that “she has lots of money and special treatment,” the AP reported.Students gathered to condemn the incident in a rally on Monday organized by the
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