A California woman dubbed SoHo Karen has pleaded guilty to a hate crime after attacking a black teenager in a Manhattan hotel and accusing him of stealing her phone.
Protestors demonstrated outside Arlo Hotel in New York s Soho on Saturday
It came after the parents of a black teen who was attacked in December
Parents of 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. say their son was racially profiled and shown mistrust by hotel staff after being wrongly accused of stealing a phone
Surveillance video appears to show 22-year-old Miya Ponsetto violently confronting the teen after falsely accusing him of taking her phone in December
Ponsetto, dubbed Soho Karen, apologized to the teen on TV but now faces multiple charges, including attempted robbery and attempted assault
Defiant SoHo Karen Miya Ponsetto arrives back in LA after NYC arraignment - with a drink in hand - as it emerges she is being probed for vandalizing her Airbnb on same day she accused black 14-year-old of stealing her phone
Miya Ponsetto was seen at the Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday with a drink in her hand after she was arraigned in New York
It has been revealed she s also being probed for smashing an Airbnb door with a fire extinguisher the same day as her scuffle with Keyon Harrold Jr
She was spotted Sunday morning at Newark International Airport for her flight to California after a judge ruled she did not require bail
Miya Ponsetto was seen at Newark International Airport for flight to California
Ponsetto left her hotel around 8.15am when she boarded the hotel s airport shuttle that took her to the airport
The 22-year-old refused to answer any questions once she arrived at the airport where she was photographed waiting to pass through airport security
Ponsetto flew home Sunday morning after a judge ruled she did not require bail
On Saturday she was led out of NYPD s 1st Precinct ahead of her arraignment
She had been flown back to New York following an extradition hearing on Friday
She was charged with four felonies: attempted robbery, endangering welfare of a child, attempted grand larceny, and attempted assault
Miya Ponsetto s lawyer Sharen H. Ghatan says incident was not race-related
Ponsetto, 22, was dubbed SoHo Karen after she wrongly accused a black teenager of stealing her phone in at the Arlo Hotel in New York City last week
Video footage showed Ponsetto tackling Keyon Harrold Jr, 14, in the hotel lobby after she incorrectly assumed he took her phone
Ghatan claimed Ponsetto has a history of anxiety attacks and panicked after she realized her phone was missing
Ponsetto, who is from California, was traveling alone while visiting her father in New York City for Christmas and was relying on her phone for navigation