This is the story about how cops will try to lie to gain entry to your house. As an example, I am going to use the story of Stephanie Rapkin, a woman who lived in Shorewood, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. She was 64 years old at the time of these events. She was on her way home in 2020 when BLM decided to stage a protest in front of her house. They were blocking traffic and wouldn’t allow her to get to her house. She got in a confrontation with a 17 year old protester and wound up spitting in his face. The confrontation was caught on film. She then went inside of her home. Police were called. She was arrested then released due to COVID restrictions.
This is what BLM and their willing accomplices do- they provoke a confrontation while filming it. Then the cops come over and arrest you. That’s exactly what happened here. Never open your door or speak to police, they aren’t there with your best interests in mind. This continued the next day, when BLM decided to protest directly in front of her house. This is how the press characterized it:
peaceful protesters showed up on the sidewalk of Rapkin’s home to denounce the actions she took the day prior. The woman came out of her home and again started arguing with the demonstrators. That exchange led to her slapping and shoving one of the protestors.
Shortly after, police arrived at Rapkin’s residence and attempted to arrest her. At that time Rapkin kneed an officer in the groin before she was placed in the cop car. Rapkin is (still alive and) now facing criminal charges for battery, disorderly conduct, resisting an officer and battery to law enforcement,
The cops spent the next 30 minutes knocking on her door, but she didn’t answer. Good for her. Eventually, the cops decided that she wasn’t opening the door because she was probably committing suicide, even though there was no evidence that this was the case. They used this pretext to kick down her door, enter her home, search her home, and arrest her. Rapkin, who is an attorney, pointed out to them that they were illegally in her home without a warrant, but they arrested her for disorderly conduct anyway, claiming that they were there to check on her welfare and didn’t need a warrant due to exigent circumstances. During the arrest, she kicked one of the cops in the balls. Good for her.
The left had what they wanted. They claimed that Rapkin had attacked while BLM was “peacefully protesting.” Her case went to trial, and she was convicted of misdemeanor disorderly conduct and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. The leftist press claimed that the majority of Americans agreed with BLM and pushed to have her disbarred. They got their wish, but not in the way that they intended.
The police were caught on camera before they entered the home, discussing how they were going to arrest her on sight, and discussing how to find a pretext to enter her home. Rapkin sued them, and the discussions about circumventing her rights were enough to prove that the cops knowingly violated Rapkin’s constitutional rights, thus removing their qualified immunity. The case was settled out of court for $760,000.
Ms. Rapkin is now disbarred, but not by discipline. She stopped paying dues because she retired. As they say, take the money and run. She is now nearly 70 years old. It’s cases like this that caused me to put Milwaukee in Zone 3:
Zone three cities are areas where violence has has taken place with little to no attempt at mitigating response from local authorities. Additionally, police and/or prosecutors are likely to bring the full weight of the law down upon those who attempt to defend themselves from these actors, or those who speak out against them.
Don’t think that, just because Trump won the election, that the cops, officials, and communists in Milwaukee have simply given up or decided to follow the law. No, they are simply biding their time until they can attack again. Stay out of Milwaukee. I wonder what the loss of USAID slush fund money has done to the movement?
Here is a lawyer’s perspective on this case:
10 Comments
Tom235 · March 6, 2025 at 8:31 am
Sometimes the “Defund The Police” people have a valid point. Maybe the answer is not to defund them, but lessen the protection of qualified immunity for both the police and prosecuting/district attorneys. Someone besides the taxpayer – perhaps the people actually involved – should be held responsible for their “misdeeds”. Screw up and lose your job/pension, maybe be arrested yourself, is a great incentive.
Stealth Spaniel · March 6, 2025 at 11:42 am
What a mess. This lawyer was supposed to be okay with not being able to access her home, unknown persons milling around her front yard, and being unable to enjoy the inside of her home-all in the name of BLM?? Wisconsin is lost. How much more of the United States are we going to turn over to these people?? We have lost major cities and communities that we built from the dirt up. Heritage areas dissolved into DEI.
Walt the Reluctant · March 6, 2025 at 2:13 pm
I was in law school in 1971 when I first learned of the crime of “contempt of cop”. Many things have changed over the years, but not that.
SoCoRuss · March 6, 2025 at 2:47 pm
A key word here, Milwaukee. Another blue hive.
I was stationed in the UP of Michigan in the 90″s and went down to Wisconsin all the time, nice place, now forget it.
I don’t get why she didn’t sue Black Thugs Matter. It would be pro bono. Since she had first hand knowledge that would have been a interesting trial. But then again she was in Shorewood a little town where all the white commies go after they fuck up their city. Funny how BLM follow them to their new place. Just showing running away doesn’t always work. and there are consequences to voting and other actions you support.
TRX · March 6, 2025 at 4:13 pm
Even if she had audio and video of her altercation with the terrorists, it might not have influenced the court. There are too many known cases where people *did* have video and were ruled against anyway for me to be willing to make that coin toss.
Dirty Dingus McGee · March 6, 2025 at 3:39 pm
It’s a bit different out here in Boondocks USA. I have a chain link fence and gates on my property, marked as No Trespassing. This I take to mean if you don’t have an invite or a warrant, you are an invader and will be dealt with accordingly. And I enforce that by limiting my invitations. There is a phone number on the sign to call if you feel you need to try to get an invite.And yes, I enforce that on LEO also, local, state or federal. I have made FBI and ATF agents ask their questions from the outside of the gate, no matter how often they ask to come inside. No warrant? No entrance.You can see me and you can hear me so we are just fine where we are. Don’t like it, then kick rocks or get a warrant.
Big Otis · March 8, 2025 at 1:35 pm
Same here. Deputies stop at the gate, burp their horn, then discuss whatever at a distance.
John in Indy · March 6, 2025 at 10:40 pm
“Disbarment” seemed odd, if it had been done so quickly, even in a wretched hive of villany such as Wisconsin, and upon examination of that States’ records, she has not been disbarred.
A disciplinary case has been filed against her, possibly for non-payment of license fees, possibly for other reasons, and her law license appears to have been suspended for non-payment of license fees
A suspension for non payment of fees is usually correctible by payment of fees due..
Disbarment is the result of , and / or the equivalent of a conviction for misconduct as a.lawyer, or for conviction for a crime impacting that person’s fitness to be a lawyer. That does not appear to have happened yet.
You may want to do further research to be sure that you are not anticipating the facts of the case in a way that could expose you to civil liability.
Divemedic · March 7, 2025 at 7:52 am
If you read the entire post, I point out that she is no longer an attorney because she took her money and retired.
Aesop · March 7, 2025 at 2:34 am
Seen the story and vids multiple times.
Pity I never saw the knee to the groin.
Make Entry Doors Great Again.
One of those entry doors that wears out two sledgehammers and 9 different badged assholes, along with a steel crossbar, would, I think, greatly reduce the propensity of badged thugs to attempt illegal forcible entry.
If they can’t get in without you letting them in, they don’t have nearly as many unconstitutional options.
Tie that in with yard sprinklers with the on/off controls inside the house, and cops on fishing expeditions standing on your porch and f**king with people becomes a lot less fun, but a lot funnier.
“You should leave now, Officer; my automatic sprinklers are due to go off any second…“
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