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Sophia Rosing was banned from the University of Kentucky campus after the incident

A college student who went on a drunken tirade using the n-word 200 times will now head to jail for a year.

Sophia Rosing, a former student at the University of Kentucky, became infamous in 2022 for her rant that was captured on video and shared on social media. In the video, Rosing was caught using the slur at a fellow student and assaulting her.

Rosing previously pleaded guilty to four counts of fourth-degree assault and other charges. When she entered her plea, she apologized to fellow student Kylah Spring and members of the Black community.

This week, a judge in Kentucky sentenced Rosing to 12 months in custody and 100 hours of community service, according to Lex 18.

In the infamous video Spring said that Rosing struck her numerous times and kicked her in the stomach. As Spring is explaining what happened to her, Rosing can be heard yelling at her in the background, calling the Black student the n-word and a "b****" throughout the footage.

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[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully lawyers that can fine her separately for each and every one.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

can you get fined for saying a word in a country with the first amendment? how dumb is this even if what she did was wrong its not illegal to say the N word. The assault however she should get in legal trouble for.

[–] Drunkpostdisaster@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The N word proves it was racially motivated.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

No, you can't get fined for saying the N-word in the US. But, repeatedly shouting it while committing an assault pretty conclusively demonstrates it was a racially motivated assault, and lots of jurisdictions in the US have laws that aggravate a crime or add an additional charge if the crime was motivated by hatred of a protected class.

Those laws can (but almost never are) applied even if the member of the protected class is male, white, etc. I think the last time I heard of someone being given hate crime charges for doing something to a white victim was the 2017 Chicago torture case where the crime was streamed on Facebook. Two black men and two black women were involved, the men received bail of $800k and $900k, the women bail of $500k and $200k - in the end all did plea deals with the men getting 7 and 8 years in prison and the women 4 years of probation and 3 years of prison. Which demonstrates neatly how much sex plays into punishment in the US, since they were all part of the same case doing the same crimes.

Probably not, but I would love to see this somehow turned into part of the assault since that barrier was broken here thus making her actions criminal.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I don't know but they beat me to it.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I suppose it might have been videoed.