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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
The Latest Racist Karen Proves Not All Of Them Are Middle-Aged White Women
22-year-old SoHo Karen physically attacked a Black teen over an iPhone, but thinks she s not racist because she s like, a woman of colour .
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Amidst the mess of everything that happened in the first two weeks of 2021, another Karen emerged and quietly slipped on by relatively unscathed.
But after racially profiling and footage of her physically attacking a Black teen in a New York City hotel at the tail end of 2020, SoHo Karen’s actions finally caught up with her this week.
CBS News anchor
Gayle King,
Miya Ponsetto, 22, insisted that she, a Puerto Rican of mixed ethnicities, was not capable of being racist. The interview followed her attack on
Keyon Harrold Jr., a 14-year-old Black boy she falsely accused of cellphone theft in a New York hotel lobby.
This moment with Soho Karen, as she is now called by the internet, took me back to a time when I was about 12 years old the time I learned blood is not always thicker than race.
It was a typical family squabble, something minor but blown out of proportion due to miscommunication.
One family member who is Latino and non-Black (Puerto Rican specifically), called another one of my family members, who is Black, the N-word.