The young man — the year-old son of jazz musician Keyon Harrold — tries to get away from the woman before they both fall to the ground. On Saturday, December 26, the woman in this video falsely accused an innocent year-old teenager of stealing her cellphone. She then proceeded to physically attack him and fled the location before police officers arrived on scene. Police said the woman has been identified, but did not release her name. The incident is not being investigated as a bias incident, an NYPD spokesperson said in a statement.

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A video showing a woman in New York City falsely accusing the year-old son of jazz musician Keyon Harrold, who is Black, of stealing her phone that she left in her Uber has gone viral. Harrold shared a minute-long video of the encounter on social media on Sunday. NBC News does not know what happened before or after what's shown in the video nor has the woman in the video been publicly identified. The New York City Police Department confirmed to NBC News in an email that the incident took place at Arlo Soho, and said there was a complaint report, but did not respond to questions about the woman.
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Miya Ponsetto, the woman wanted for allegedly falsely accusing a teenager of stealing her smartphone and physically attacking him inside a New York City hotel, has been arrested in California after fleeing authorities there. Ponsetto fled the Ventura County Sheriff's Department after it tried to make a traffic stop on the warrant for her arrest out of New York, officials said. The department said it had to follow her while she refused to stop, driving slowly through her neighborhood in Piru, California. Once she stopped in front of a home, she put up a fight and resisted arrest, where she had to be physically restrained and arrested by deputies, authorities told ABC News. Keyon Harrold, a Grammy-winning trumpet player, was with his year-old son at the Arlo SoHo Hotel in New York City last month, where they were staying, when he said Ponsetto approached his son in the lobby to accuse him of stealing her phone. Harrold recorded video of part of the incident on his phone. In the video that Harrold recorded, the woman could be seen yelling at the teen and lunging at him during the Dec.