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On Friday,
CBS This Morning released part of an interview between journalist Gayle King and Miya Ponsetto. The 22-year-old white woman falsely accused 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. of stealing her phone in the lobby of the Arlo Hotel in Manhattan’s SoHo neighbourhood on December 26. She has since been dubbed the “SoHo Karen” for her racial profiling and demanding that the manager of the hotel help her during the incident.
After accusing Harrold Jr., who is Black, of theft, Ponsetto went on to physically attack him in an attempt to retrieve her phone which, according to
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Black teen wrongly accused of stealing woman’s phone says he’s ‘shell-shocked’
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By KELLY MCCARTHY and SABINA GHEBREMEDHIN, ABC News
(NEW YORK) In the wake of a now-viral incident where a woman accused a Grammy-winning Black jazz musician’s teenage son of stealing her cell phone in a hotel lobby, the parents and their son described how the confrontation left them “shell-shocked.”
“I’ve been confused. I mean, don’t know what would’ve happened if my dad wasn’t there, honestly,” Keyon Harrold Jr. told
Black teen wrongly accused of stealing woman s phone says he s shell-shocked
ABCNews In the wake of a now-viral incident where a woman accused a Grammy-winning Black jazz musician s teenage son of stealing her cell phone in a hotel lobby, the parents and their son described how the confrontation left them shell-shocked. I ve been confused. I mean, don t know what would ve happened if my dad wasn t there, honestly, Keyon Harrold Jr. told Good Morning America on Tuesday. These past few days, still kind of shell-shocked. But I m hanging in there.
The 14-year-old spoke out for the first time on GMA, alongside his father Keyon Harrold, his mom Kat Rodriguez and their attorney Ben Crump.
Black jazz musician shares footage of white woman falsely accusing his son of stealing iPhone
Keyon Harrold, a prominent trumpet player who won a Grammy award in 2017, said he and his son may have been racially profiled
Keyon Harrold performing in Rotterdam in 2019
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A Grammy award-winning black musician has released footage showing a white woman accosting him and his teenage son, whom she falsely accused of stealing her iPhone in a New York hotel.
Jazz artist Keyon Harrold shared a video of the incident at the boutique Arlo Hotel in Manhattan s SoHo neighbourhood on social media, saying: We see this c - happening all the time, but it hits different [sic] when it hits home.”