NEW: Maya Ponsetto pleaded guilty to a felony hate crime charge, the top count she faced, for wrongly accusing a teenage son of a noted jazz musician of taking her phone and lunging at him at a SoHo Hotel in Dec. 2020
on other charges in connection with the confrontation involving Harrold Jr. She initially seemed to apologize but later backed off in a tense interview on a morning CBS news show.It alleged he was “violently accosted” by Ponsetto and that hotel manager Chad Nathan helped her and demanded that the teenager turn over his phone for inspection. The lawsuit's status wasn't immediately clear Monday.
The parents of the Black teenager falsely accused of stealing a woman's phone are demanding action. They're now calling for a boycott of the hotel where it happened. NBC New York's Gus Rosendale reports.
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