Gayle King‘s contentious interview with Miya Ponsetto, aka “Soho Karen,” is going viral. Miya made headlines in December when she attacked a 14-year old black child at the Arlo Hotel in New York City after falsely accusing him of stealing her cell phone.
She was dubbed “Soho Karen” by social media users after security footage of her assault went viral. Miya‘s lawyer told TMZ that the assault was not racially motivated, but instead the result of an anxiety attack. Miya was arrested outside her home in California on Thursday (January 7).
Hours before her arrest, Miya sat down for an extremely tense interview with Gayle King for CBS This Morning, where she maintained that the attack was not the result of racial profiling.
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