A Black man who was just a teen when a white woman in her 60s spit on him during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 is not happy with the settlement amount in the civil case concerning the matter.
Now 22, the victim was formerly known as Eric Lucas III. He legally changed his name in 2023 due to the sheer amount of publicity in the case, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel re ported. His current name has not been released in effort to respect his privacy.
According to attorney William Sulton, his client didn’t get his just due from 67-year-old Stephanie Rapkin for the humiliation and emotional distress she inflicted on him when she spit on him while he was co-leading a protest with his high school peers four years ago.
“It was surprising and disappointing, given the evidence we had,” Sulton told the Journal. “Much of it included the exhibits that were presented during the criminal trial just a year earlier.”