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A former student at the University Of Kentucky pleaded guilty on Monday to racially attacking a Black student on campus in 2022.
Sophia Rosing, 23, pleaded guilty to four counts of fourth-degree assault, one count of disorderly conduct, and one count of public intoxication, for her attack on Kylah Spring, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Her lawyer, Fred Peters, said she could face up to 12 months in jail, 100 hours of community service, and a $25 fine.
“Her life has been on hold for the past 18 to 20 months,” Peters told the publication. “She has had a lot of time to think about what she has done, and she wrote a nice letter of apology.”
Rosing was formally indicted for assaulting a Black student at the University of Kentucky during a violent and racist confrontation on campus in 2022.
Affectionately dubbed the Kentucky “Karen” for attacking Kylah Spring as shown in a video that went viral in November 2022, Rosing was criminally indicted by a grand jury with third-degree assault of a police officer, two counts of fourth-degree assault, second-degree disorderly conduct and alcohol intoxication, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
The evidence against Rosing was damning.
Spring was working in a University of Kentucky dormitory during the early morning hours of Nov. 6, 2022 when she confronted Rosing, who appeared intoxicated and did not produce the required ID to enter an elevator.
That’s when Rosing got violent, and racist, spewing the N-word dozens of times during a one-sided fight that Spring and another Black student attempted to de-escalate and fend her off.
Sophia Rosing was ultimately arrested later that same day and booked at the Fayette County Detention Center on charges of public intoxication, third-degree assault of a police officer, fourth-degree assault and second-degree disorderly conduct. She was seen accompanied by her parents after being released on a $10,000 bond the next day.
A statement attributed to Rosing blamed her behavior on the alcohol and insisted she is “not a racist.” However, there has been no apology.
What happened?
Spring posted her own videos to social media following the racist encounter to explain what happened and said Rosing “stumbled across the front desk over to the elevator and she started talking to the elevator.” Spring said her job duties require her to intervene and call a resident assistant (RA) if she sees a student that appears to be “very drunk.”
Spring said when she asked Rosing if she was okay, the response was unadulterated and anti-Black racism.
“She continues to look at me and she starts calling me a nigger,” Spring said before adding: “She kept saying it.”
Spring said she tried to keep Rosing from getting inside the dorm elevator because there was no evidence she stayed there. That’s when she was peppered with the N-word and then some.
“Do my chores, bitch,” Spring said Rosing exclaimed in response.
Spring said Rosing bit her arm, punched her in the face, kicked her in the stomach, used a grocery cart in the dorm lobby as a weapon and bit another Black student trying to help before the RA showed up.
The aftermath
The University of Kentucky community has rallied around Spring, who spoke during a campus vigil in November and vowed before a large crowd that Rosing “will not break my spirit.”
A GoFundMe account began on Spring’s behalf and has since raised nearly $18,000, much more than its goal of $10,000.
Rosing, who was a senior, withdrew from the University of Kentucky before the school handed down any discipline.
The court in November ordered Rosing to have no contact with the dormitory or Spring and forbid her from consuming alcohol.
Shortly after her arrest, a video tweeted in 2021 resurfaced and showed an apparent drunken Rosing mocking someone’s economic status.
Spring told CBS News she was “not surprised” Rosing had not apologized and was commended for handling the situation with grace and aplomb.
“I wanted to make sure I acted appropriately so that I could keep my job because the script could have been flipped at any time if I had retaliated,” Spring said.
What’s next for Sophia Rosing?
Rosing’s mother started an online petition to give her daughter “a second chance” at the University of Kentucky.
Jill Rosing claimed that “Sophia is very remorseful for what she has done,” appealed for people to sign the petition and downplayed her daughter’s weaponized usage of the N-word.
“She needs support to pick up where she has left off in all this madness and bloodthirsty,” Jill Rosing wrote on the petition. “What is one word compared to someone’s entire future?”
As of Friday morning, the petition had fallen short of its goal by garnering just 66 signatures.
This is America.
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