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WATCH: White Kentucky Student Arrested After Viral Video Shows Her Attacking Black Student, Yelling Racist Slurs

<p>A white University of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;kentucky&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Kentucky<&sol;strong><&sol;a> student has been arrested and charged after video shows her attacking a Black student and calling her a &&num;8220&semi;n&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast; b&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&&num;8221&semi; in an incident early Sunday that has since gone viral&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sophia Rosing&comma; 22&comma; was arrested at a campus residence hall around 4 a&period;m&period; on charges of assault&comma; disorderly conduct&comma; public intoxication&comma; and assault on a police officer&comma; according to online arrest records&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Bond Set At &dollar;10K For Racist White Girl&&num;8217&semi;s Attack On Black Student In Damning Viral Video<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Her bond was set at &dollar;10&comma;000&comma; according to the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nypost&period;com&sol;2022&sol;11&sol;07&sol;kentucky-student-sophia-rosing-arrested-for-attacking-kylah-spring-calling-her-racial-slurs&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>New York Post<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period; As of Monday&comma; it was still unclear whether or not she has been or will be expelled from the university&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Video shows as a highly intoxicated Rosing&comma; who is white&comma; stumbled into the university&&num;8217&semi;s Boyd Hall&comma; where Kylah Spring was working at the dormitory’s front desk&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spring explained in a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;tiktok&period;com&sol;&commat;ky&period;janalise&sol;video&sol;7163007591755386154&quest;is&lowbar;copy&lowbar;url&equals;1&amp&semi;is&lowbar;from&lowbar;webapp&equals;v1&amp&semi;item&lowbar;id&equals;7163007591755386154" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>TikTok<&sol;strong><&sol;a> video that she tried to check on the woman&comma; but was instead physically assaulted and called a series of disgusting racist slurs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Ckw6yfNsa56" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Could you stop&comma; please&quest;” Spring asked Rosing after she tried to take a swing at her&comma; one video shows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nope&comma;” Rosing replied&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You’re a n&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast; and you’re a b&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Spring&comma; somehow remaining calm throughout all of it&comma; replied&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Oh Jesus Lord&comma; I do not get paid enough for this&period;&&num;8221&semi; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I got this all on video&comma;” another voice off-camera said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Another student attempted to help Spring place Rosing in a seat&comma; prompting her to start swinging on them&period; Rosing kicked Spring before trying to push a shopping cart at them&comma; additional footage shows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Rosing Told Victim &&num;8220&semi;Do My Chores&&num;8221&semi; As She Punched&comma; Kicked And Bit Her&comma; Video Shows<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>In her TikTok video&comma; Spring said Rosing punched her several times&comma; bit her arm and kicked her in the stomach&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Amidst the assault&comma; Rosing told her to do her chores&comma; adding &&num;8220&semi;it&&num;8217&semi;s not my fault that you&&num;8217&semi;re Black&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The girl starts saying things like &OpenCurlyQuote;Do my chores&comma;’ &OpenCurlyQuote;It’s not my fault that you’re Black&comma;’ &OpenCurlyQuote;It’s not my fault that you’re ugly&comma;’ and at this point she’s like singing the n-word&comma;” Spring said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Police eventually arrived on scene and cuffed Rosing&comma; who continued to use the n-word while refusing to provide the officers with her name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Hey&comma; guess what&quest; You’re going to jail&comma;” the arresting officer told Rosing&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Rosing Kicked&comma; Bit Arresting Officer&comma; Apologizes And Says She &&num;8220&semi;Literally Lost Everything&&num;8221&semi; Following Incident<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Rosing reportedly even kicked and bit a police officer&comma; leading to a charge of assault on a police officer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She has since apologized for her actions&comma; writing she &&num;8220&semi;lost everything&&num;8221&semi; and has to &&num;8220&semi;fear for her life&&num;8221&semi; since the incident went viral&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1589476708184227841" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I understand an apology may not help but I am not racist&period; I was under the influence &lpar;and&rpar; I lost everything literally and now have to fear for my life&period; God forgives me&comma; please understand&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Rosing wrote&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; she had been kicked out of an area bar recently for using racial sluts according to a tweet&comma; with a photo of her being tossed by a bouncer making the rounds on social media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Rosing&&num;8217&semi;s Racist Past&comma; Friends Called Into Question Amidst Backlash For Racist Attack<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>And another damning <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;eatyuout&sol;status&sol;1589597920420331520" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>tweet<&sol;strong><&sol;a> found Rosing&&num;8217&semi;s friends using the n-word and defending her online&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1589645281062100992" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a statement released Sunday morning&comma; the University of Kentucky condemned the assault&comma; calling it &&num;8220&semi;disturbing&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;deeply offensive&comma;&&num;8221&semi; however the statement failed to reveal Rosing&&num;8217&semi;s name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Early this morning&comma; a disturbing incident was captured on video in a residence hall&comma;” the university said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The video is deeply offensive&comma; and we take it very seriously&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">University Conducting An Immediate Investigation&comma; Victim Says More Needs To Be Done To Protect Students<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The school&&num;8217&semi;s Office of Student Conduct is conducting an immediate investigation&comma; and added that its Student Success teams reached out to Spring to offer support&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-tiktok data-src&equals;"7163007591755386154" width&equals;"325" height&equals;"575"><&sol;amp-tiktok><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The safety and well-being of our students is our top priority&comma; and we will not tolerate behavior that threatens it&comma;” the University of Kentucky said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; University president Eli Capilouto similarly sent a message to the university community saying there will be a full investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Spring said the school needs to do more to ensure students don&&num;8217&semi;t deal with such racist attacks on campus in the future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The problem here is that this happens way too much on college campuses for things to not be done and we get these emails and everything about how &lbrack;the university doesn’t&rsqb; tolerate it&comma; but it’s still happening&comma;” she said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I feel like at this point&comma; the attention needs to be shifted from the offenders to the offended&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Rosing was arraigned on Monday&comma; according to a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;SYDNEYDREPORTS&sol;status&sol;1589678660109205504" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>tweet<&sol;strong><&sol;a> by local reporter Sydney Darden&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; 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