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Less than 48 hours after video of a black University of Kentucky student enduring racial slurs from a white student went viral, she addressed a crowd of supporters. “My name is Kylah Spring.”
With tears in her eyes, the college freshman had a message during a rally Monday night: “This is a recurring problem in American school systems regardless of age.”
“I am deeply saddened by the events that occurred, but I am very grateful for the justice that is to come. And to Mrs. Rosing, you will not break my spirit.”
Sophia Rosing, a 22-year-old student, is facing assault charges after she repeatedly hurled a racial slur at a black student on campus early Sunday morning, according to a University Police report.
“I was physically, verbally and racially assaulted,” Spring told the crowd Monday night.
CNN has tried to reach Spring.
Early Sunday morning, a University of Kentucky police officer responded to a dorm after reports that an unknown woman was “assaulting staff members,” a campus police report shows.
When the officer arrived, they detained a “highly intoxicated” woman who was repeating a racist slur to a group of black women, the report says.
The woman told the police that “she has a lot of money and[s] special treatment,” the police report says. When she was told to sit in a chair, the woman kicked the arresting officer and bit his hand, according to the police report.
The report identifies the woman as “unknown” because she had no identification and continually refused to identify herself.
Rosing has been charged with alcohol intoxication in a public place, fourth-degree assault without visible injury, second-degree disorderly conduct, and third-degree assault on a police officer or probation officer, according to Kimberly Baird, U.S. Attorney. of the Commonwealth of Fayette County.
Sally Woodson, an executive communications specialist at the University of Kentucky, confirmed to CNN that the police report refers to Rosing.
Rosing was initially listed as Jane Doe in Kentucky Department of Corrections records, Baird said.
On Tuesday, Rosing’s attorney, Fred Peters, told CNN that she plans to withdraw from the University of Kentucky in the next few days and is “very embarrassed, very sorry, very humiliated.”
He also said he is working to get her into a treatment program, but would not confirm what type of treatment.
Rosing’s next court appearance is a preliminary hearing scheduled for Nov. 15, he said.
Rosing appeared in court Monday and pleaded not guilty, according to CNN affiliate WLEX. She is currently out on bail.
In a message to the campus community on Sunday, University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto said the incident took place in one of the dorms and that one of the victims was a student who worked the night shift at the reception. University staff are conducting a review and contacting the victims, Capilouto said.
“To be clear: We condemn this behavior and will not tolerate it under any circumstances. The safety and well-being of our community has been, and will continue to be, our top priority,” Capilouto said.
Capilouto said he had reviewed a video that appears to show the assault, which was posted online Sunday, and condemned the student’s behavior toward the student worker.
“The video images I have seen do not meet our mutual responsibilities. They reflect violence, which is never acceptable, and a denial of the humanity of members of our community. They do not reflect civil discourse. They are profoundly antithetical to who we are and who we always want to be as a community,” said the university president.
He also praised Spring for how he handled the violent incident on his night shift, saying he “acted with professionalism, restraint and discretion.”
CNN independently obtained the video. Woodson, the university spokesman, confirmed that the woman in the video is Rosing and shows the incident from Sunday.
The video shows a drunken Rosing repeatedly saying racial slurs and continually trying to hit a black woman, who tries to restrain her.
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