University of Kentucky Racist Student Arrest / Sophia Rosing

Overview

Sophia Rosing Arrest, also known as University of Kentucky Racist Student Arrest, refers to an altercation between a woman named Sophia Rosing who was filmed physically attacking and using racial slurs against two Black women at the University of Kentucky in early November 2022. Footage of the incident was released online shortly after, becoming a viral video shortly after, which showed her singing the racial slur while being handcuffed by police. This clip caused an additional stir online as calls for cancelation and further action against her began to increase. More drama was then ignited when people posting in defense of her online were noted as being her friends, causing them to enter into the drama as users dug up allegedly controversial information on them.

Background

On November 6th, 2022, Sophia Rosing was allegedly found intoxicated by staff at the University of Kentucky, with a front desk associate trying to restrain her. This then reportedly led to an altercation in which Rosing began to verbally and physically assault the associate, named Kylah Spring. Multiple videos of the altercation were later uploaded to Twitter by Spring on her account @realnicolekylah^[1] (shown below).

Twitter do your thing #universityofkentucky #racist pic.twitter.com/UNc7lIkNlC

— ky.janalise (@realnicolekylah) November 6, 2022

Kylah also uploaded an overview video to her TikTok^[2] that had the audio stripped off it, as well as including other videos of the physical altercation removed from the platform (shown below). The video has since been fully removed from the platform. In the overview, Kylah explained how Sophia stumbled in drunk and began talking to the elevator before everything started to "go downhill quickly."

Developments

Past Controversy

As the video went viral and spread online, people began to immediately recognize her, claiming that Sophia Rosing had previously gone viral for another drunken altercation, which was captured and uploaded to Twitter via @BarstoolU,^[3] in which she purportedly demeaned a man and threatened to sue them. This additional footage further incited backlash toward her online when combined with the other footage (shown below).

Main character energy @CUBuffschicks
(Via:Jacksonb1317/ig) pic.twitter.com/AHuVVDI64t

— Barstool U (@BarstoolU) August 5, 2021

Arrest Video

Footage of her arrest following the altercation was also posted online in the following days, which showed an officer putting Rosing's hands behind her back and handcuffing her. While this is happening, however, Rosing maintained eye contact with Spring and surrounding personnel as she appears to start mockingly singing racial slurs at them as she is being detained. This video similarly went viral, which was uploaded by the Twitter account @GOTCITYTEA^[4] on November 7th, 2022, receiving over 560,000 views and 16,400 likes in less than 24 hours (shown below).

Sophia Rosing shouldn’t be allowed to work or go to school until she completes the six steps written by black America. pic.twitter.com/lCW1gktdM7

— INSTA: gossipofthecitytea (GOTCITYTEA) November 7, 2022

Defense from Friends

After purported friends of Sophia's began to post images of them together included with messages about how she didn't deserve to be locked up, people online began to collect the images and plan out coordinated reporting and calling out of the individuals, as seen in the status by Twitter user @fuckoffbabeyyy^[5] on November 7th, 2022, who called for her friends to also be held accountable for her actions via further tweets doxxing the social media profiles of those allegedly involved (shown below).

It was then announced on November 7th, 2022, that Dillard's, who had employed Sophia as an influencer, was firing her and breaking off any ties between them, with Twitter user @breakingtrend1^[6] claiming that the University of Kentucky has yet to respond earlier that morning (shown below).

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