Just days after her attorney said she knew she had to work on her “anger management issues,” Miya Ponsetto resisted when arrested at her California home
Miya Ponsetto, a 22-year-old woman who assaulted an innocent Black teen in New York City, went viral after her bizarre interview with Gayle King aired.
January 9, 2021
For Miya Ponsetto, a nationally televised interview was an opportunity to apologize, her lawyer said, for falsely accusing a Black teenager of stealing her cellphone and then tackling him in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel.
Instead, Ponsetto, 22, went off-script. She stormed out of the disastrous interview with “CBS This Morning,” recorded Thursday, only to be arrested hours later by California authorities. By the time the interview aired Friday morning, Ponsetto was facing a charge of attempted robbery in New York, her attorney and police officials said.
Her personal attorney, Sharen H. Ghatan, said Friday that she had become concerned for Ponsetto, who had behaved erratically in the hours before her arrest.