The charges follow more than a week of intense media coverage of the hotel lobby encounter and demands by the teen’s family and activists that she face criminal charges.
‘This is not who I am’
Ms. Ponsetto apologised but defended herself in a television interview conducted before she was arrested in California.
“I don’t feel that that is who I am as a person. I don’t feel like this one mistake does define me,” she said in a
CBS This Morning interview that aired on Friday. “But I do sincerely from the bottom of my heart apologise that if I made the son feel as if I assaulted him or if I hurt his feelings or the father’s feelings.”
A 22-year-old California woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and tackled him at a New York City hotel in a widely seen video was charged after returning to the city on Saturday.
A 22-year-old California woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her phone and tackled him at a New York City hotel in a widely seen video was charged after returning to the city on Saturday.
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
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