A Grammy-winning jazz musician has received an apology from a New York hotel after a woman accosted his teenage son over the weekend, wrongfully accusing the 14-year-old of theft.
Keyon Harrold posted the video to Instagram on Sunday of his family’s Saturday interaction with the woman at the Arlo Soho hotel in New York City.
“I am furious!!! We see this crap happening all the time, but it hits different when it hits home!!!” Harrold wrote on the post.
Keyon Harrold shared about his weekend experience during which his son was accused of stealing a woman’s iPhone. Keyon Harrold/ Instagram
I m still shell-shocked : Black teen, 14, accused of stealing phone by Soho Karen says he feared for his life and he doesn t know what would have happened if his dad wasn t there - as hotel manager involved is put on leave
Keyon Harrold Jr, 14, says he s still shell-shocked after the Soho Karen attack on Saturday, where a woman falsely accused him of stealing her phone
His father is Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold
The incident took place Saturday at the Arlo Hotel in SoHo, Manhattan I don’t know what would have happened if my dad wasn’t there. These past few days, still kind of shell-shocked, but I’m hanging in there, he said Tuesday
Keyon Harrold
A Grammy-award winning jazz musician took to social media to let the public know exactly what happened when his 14-year-old son allegedly became the target of racism.
Though nationally recognized trumpeter Keyon Harrold has performed at the White House and worked alongside artists such as Beyonce, Mac Miller, and Rihanna, his notable accomplishments did little to shield him and his teenage son from a recent incident that Harrold classifies as racial profiling.
The 40-year-old Missouri native took to Instagram on Sunday (Dec. 27) and shared video of the encounter.
The video shows an unknown woman confronting Harrold and his son at a New York City hotel on Saturday. In the video, the unidentified woman begins to erroneously accuse Harrold s son, Keyon Junior, of stealing her phone.
NYPD identifies SoHo Karen and may charge her with grand larceny or attempted robbery after she tackled 14-year-old black teen claiming he stole her phone - moments before an Uber driver returned it
The New York Police Department said Tuesday that they have identified SoHo Karen and are trying to locate her, but haven t released her name
Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said Tuesday they may charge her with assault, grand larceny or attempted robery
Police said the confrontation is not being investigated as a bias incident
On Saturday she tackled Keyon Harrold Jr, 14, and his jazz musician father, claiming the teen stole her cellphone at the Arlo Hotel in SoHo, Manhattan
Keyon Harrold is African American professional jazz musician living in New York
Harrold and his son were staying at the Arlo SoHo boutique hotel in Manhattan
On Saturday, while on their way to breakfast, they were accosted by a woman
The woman claimed that Harrold s 14-year-old son stole her iPhone
Harrold angrily denied the claim as the manager asked his son to see the phone
Video shows the woman lunging at Harrold s son in an attempt to grab phone
Uber driver later returned the woman s phone, proving her accusation was false
An instagrammer has denied she is the woman in the clip after people accused her of being the Karen after she shared a photo at the hotel days earlier