“I’d rather go to jail right now and take care of it,” Stephanie Rapkin, 67, said at her sentencing when told she could walk free and do probation.
A white Wisconsin lawyer who spat at a black teen during a Black Lives Matter protest rejected a sweetheart deal to walk free from court — saying she’d “rather go to jail right now.”
“It’s not viable,” she said, interrupting Milwaukee County Judge Laura Crivello as she offered the deal as credit for her “working to rebuild your faith and your trust in the community.” “She does,” the judge acknowledged. “Then at this point in time, the 60 days that I imposed in stay will be starting today.”Milwaukee Sheriff's OfficeBailiffs placed her in handcuffs and escorted her out of the room and taken to jail, with her online court record updated to show that “Defendant is REJECTING probation.”
The attorney was initially charged with disorderly conduct as a hate crime, but a judge dismissed the enhancement in July 2021.
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