The woman who was caught on video falsely accusing the 14-year-old son of a popular Black musician of cell phone theft has been charged with two counts of attempted assault, New York police said.
A 22-year-old woman caught on video falsely accusing the teenage son of a Black jazz musician of taking her iPhone apologized and admitted in an interview that she could have handled the situation differently.
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January 9, 2021
For Miya Ponsetto, a nationally televised interview was an opportunity to apologize, her lawyer said, for falsely accusing a Black teenager of stealing her cellphone and then tackling him in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel.
Instead, Ponsetto, 22, went off-script. She stormed out of the disastrous interview with “CBS This Morning,” recorded Thursday, only to be arrested hours later by California authorities. By the time the interview aired Friday morning, Ponsetto was facing a charge of attempted robbery in New York, her attorney and police officials said.
Her personal attorney, Sharen H. Ghatan, said Friday that she had become concerned for Ponsetto, who had behaved erratically in the hours before her arrest.