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Miya 'Soho Karen' Ponsetto Charged With Hate Crime for NYC Hotel Incident

At this point, I just enjoy thinking about how much this woman must wish she would've just left Black people TF alone that day.

Do yโ€™all remember Miya Ponsetto, one of the Becky-est Karens to ever perform acts of Susan-try against Black people who were trying to mind their own business?

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Well, if youโ€™ve forgotten, Ponsetto is the Piru, Calif., woman who, last December, was caught on video falsely accusing 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. of stealing her cell phoneโ€”which it turned out she left in an Uberโ€”at an Arlo Hotel in New York City, and then tackling Keyon after he and his father refused her demand to show her the teenโ€™s cell phone to prove it wasnโ€™t hers. Ponsetto was arrested in January over the confrontation, and now, sheโ€™s charged with a hate crime.

NBC 4 New York reports that on Wednesday, Ponsetto was arraigned virtually in a Manhattan court where she pleaded not guilty to charges of unlawful imprisonment as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and endangering the welfare of a child.

Ponsettoโ€™s attorney, Paul Dโ€™Emilia, called the charges โ€œa brazen and clear overreach of the intent of the statute,โ€ and said that, โ€œIn sum, they are absurd, and a perversion of our legal system.โ€

OK, calm down, Paul.

First of all, in a perfect legal system, Ponsetto would have been charged with a second hate crime for her abysmal and caucasity-infused performance during the two-part interview she did with Gayle King in January. (I mean, I definitely hated that shit.) Secondly, when a white person (she said she wasnโ€™t white in the King interview, but sheโ€™s definitely spiceless and color redacted in spirit) loses their phone and then targets the first Black person they see with a phone and calls them a thiefโ€”sorry, but Iโ€™m just going to assume theyโ€™re racist.

But whatever; lawyers are going to lawyer and hers have been insisting that race didnโ€™t play a part in her acting a Klan fool. (Sorry, I meant โ€œdamn fool.โ€ Thatโ€™s...thatโ€™s definitely what I meant.)

Anyway, according to NBC, Ponsettoโ€™s next court date is scheduled for Oct. 20.

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