Last week, Miya Ponsetto, the woman who wrongly accused 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. of stealing her iPhone at a Manhattan hotel, was arrested. A California resident, Ponsetto was arrested in Ventura County and extradited to New York. She is facing several charges including acting in a manner injurious to a child, an NYPD spokesperson told Insider in a statement.
Ponsetto, who was nicknamed Soho Karen, was also charged with attempted robbery, grand larceny, and two counts of attempted assault. Miya Ponsetto Credit: Ventura County Shariffâs Office via Getty Images
The incident occurred last year at Arlo Hotel in New York City and was captured on video by the teenager s father, Keyon Harrold, who has said his son was racially profiled and was assaulted during the confrontation. The viral video showed the 22-year-old telling the hotel management that the teen had her
Miya Ponsetto arrest: Woman hedges apology in tense interview on hotel attack
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This booking photo provided by Ventura County Sheriff s Office in California shows Miya Ponsetto. Ponsetto, who falsely accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and then tackled him at a New York City hotel on Dec. 26 , 2020 was arrested Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 in her home state of California. br
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NEW YORK (AP) A white woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her cellphone appeared to back off her apology to the youth in a TV interview, suggesting without evidence that maybe he did try to steal her phone after all.
The second half of Gayle King's nationally televised interview with Miya Ponsetto, the California woman nicknamed “Soho Karen” after falsely accusing a Black teenage boy of taking her iPhone, has been released. Recorded prior to Ms Ponsetto's Friday (8 January) arrest in Ventura County, California, the second half of Ms Ponsetto's interview with King showed the 22-year-old claiming that she could not be racist because she is herself a woman of.
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The parents of Keyon Harrold Jr. are speaking out after Miya Ponsetto, the so-called SoHo Karen, apologized in a recent interview with Gayle King for attacking their son.
“I feel like her apology was as genuine as when she shushed you,” jazz musician Keyon Harrold Sr. told King referring to a controversial moment during her interview with Ponsetto, who at one point raised her hand and said, “Enough.”
“It said a lot,” Harrold Sr. added. “I have an issue with the idea of entitlement versus character. It’s all been tragically consistent. I’ll just say that.”
Harrold Sr. and Kat Rodriguez opened up to King in an interview that aired Monday on “CBS This Morning,” along with the second part of King’s chat with Ponsetto. During their discussion, Harrold Sr. said he was “happy” Ponsetto was arrested last week after she was caught on video tackling and falsely accusing his 14-year-old son of stealing her phone in a New York hotel.
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The California woman dubbed SoHo Karen for allegedly attacking a 14-year-old who she believed took her cellphone was reportedly accused in a separate incident of damaging a New York City Airbnb, according to a recent report.
Miya Ponsetto, 22, allegedly damaged the door to an Airbnb in New York City’s East Village on Dec. 26 – the same day she was accused of trying to rob and assault the teenager – and used a fire extinguisher to try to get into an apartment after getting locked out, the New York Post reported.