Civil rights activists marched at a Los Angeles police station over the weekend calling for the arrest of “Soho Karen”, the woman who falsely accused a black teenager of stealing her cell phone in Manhattan last month.
Protesters gathered outside the LAPD’s North Hollywood police station on Saturday demanding the arrest of Miya Ponsetto, who has been hiding in California since the December 26 incident, according to New York’s ABC-7.
Ponsetto reached viral infamy when a video of her attacking Keyon Harrold Jr., 14, appeared in the lobby of the Arlo Hotel in Soho.
The 22-year-old accused Harrold Jr. of stealing her iPhone and got into a physical fight with the teenager, video from the run-in programs.
An Uber driver later came into the hotel lobby to return Ponsetto’s phone, said the boy’s father, Harrold Sr., a jazz trumpeter.
NYPD leaders signaled that charges will be brought against Ponsetto in the incident, which Mayor Bill de Blasio called “pure and simple” racism.
Police officers described Ponsetto as white, while she told a freelance Post photographer who met her at a McDonald’s in California last week that she is Puerto Rican.