But the disturbing trend of white women trying to police people during the aforementioned public health crises was threatening to become the third pandemic disproportionately affecting Black folks.
That last phenomenon, which has in recent months been blamed on people dubbed “Karen,” was in full effect over the weekend in suburban Milwaukee when one white woman reportedly used her car to block people protesting the police killing of George Floyd before assaulting a Black teenager by spitting on him.
The video apparently starts recording after Rapkin blocked the protesters with her car, but it does she her walking up to protesters and directly confronting them before she appears to spit in an unidentified Black teenager’s face.
The teen looked startled and other protesters immediately got enraged, but it’s important to note that no one responded with violence to Rapkin’s assault of an innocent, unarmed and nonviolent Black protester.
When her neighbors rightfully called out Rapkin about spitting on the Black teen the day before, she went into “Karen” mode and allegedly assaulted one of the people confronting her.
