remember soho karen yeah
well she has now pleaded guilty let me
remind you of the incident here it is
tell me this is my phone tell me no you
don't have to explain that to her
that's fine literally
are you kidding me you feel like there's
only one one iphone made in the world no
okay then show me this no you can just
get a life over there what's on your
background you better go use fun find my
iphone don't do that find my iphone is
awesome
no no you can't no i'm the manager of
the hotel
no i'm trying to figure out
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no i'm not letting him walk away with my
phone
please
she has now pleaded guilty let's put up
her picture
this is maya poncetto aka soho karen all
right she pleaded guilty on monday to
unlawful imprisonment
as a hate crime for her falsely accusing
the then 14 year old
keon harold jr of stealing her cell
phone and then attacking him at the
hotel this was back in december 2020
went viral everybody remembers this
so let me give you some background to
what's going to happen so while pancetta
is already on probation in her home
state from a separate case
she is avoiding jail time for this case
as part of this guilty plea
back in june she initially pleaded not
guilty to the hate crime charges now
according to cbs news under
the conditions of her plea deal
poncetto will be required to continue
counseling avoid interaction with the
criminal justice system and follow the
terms of her probation from a separate
california case if she maintains those
conditions for two years she will be
allowed to replete to aggravated
harassment in the second degree as a
class a misdemeanor if she fails to
abide by the terms poncetto could spend
one
uh to four years
in state prison okay
uh before
i go into some more detail here i want
to remind everyone of the systemic
issues involved if you remember
soho karen was in a hotel
and she made an accusation against
another guest well in that accusation
she decided to become aggressive violent
to physically stop
a person's mobility
well
the hotel manager
decided to get involved by going after
the black family systemic bigotry
at no point did he say wait a minute
this is a guest
you cannot talk to guests this way we
have security footage that can be
reviewed you make a claim at the desk
nobody did that
nobody from that hotel said you have to
stop harassing these two black people
and one of course was a black 14 year
old child let me show you how this is a
systemic racial failure
imagine if a black man lost his cell
phone
and he decides to go up to a white woman
and a white child
and start telling them you're not
leaving this hotel room until i get a
hotel until i get my cell phone and then
physically
stops their movement
runs after them physically assaults the
child the the 14 year old white girl
what do you think happens in that
situation do you think the hotel manager
comes up and says to the 14 year old
white girl or to the white parent hey
what what have you all done here to make
this african-american male so upset
hell no
you know no matter what your political
belief is
you know good and damn well that would
never be the reaction of the hotel
manager thus proving
the issue of systemic racism
institutional racism bigotry and bias
existing and permeating in the culture
for one reason the color of skin
the color of skin there's more to the
story um acting justice laura ward told
poncetto uh in the supreme court uh you
have been given a tremendous opportunity
turn this lousy situation into a good
situation so you never find yourself
here again ward also warned poncero
to have no contact with harold jr or his
father who happens to be
a jazz musician keon harold for the next
two years the last time she was in the
big apple for a court date poncetto told
the post
that she wished she had apologized
differently to the victim i feel like i
made a mistake she said
um harold senior took to his instagram
following the ruling with the screenshot
of a headline a photo of pancetto from
civil rights attorney ben crump's ig
and the caption here will thank
followers for their ongoing support as
his family fights for justice
and also said and i quote
my son
and our family deserve more than an
apology after being wrongfully and
aggressively attacked in the lobby of
the arlo hotel
for miss poncetto to describe the
unprovoked assault as a mistake
minimizes the trauma that keon jr
continues to feel
to this day harold explained his family
not only blames poncetta but also holds
the hotel for not de-escalating the
situation and he finally closed
demanding for accountability uh the only
way we can get individuals and
corporations to change the culture of
systemic racism is to hold them
accountable for their actions each and
every time a clear message that this
sort of abhorrent behavior will not be
tolerated needs to be made period all
right
they have sued uh poncetto over the
situation
i think they need to sue the hotel
um as well wise thoughts here
yeah you you hit the nail right on the
head that the hotel to me is
the most responsible party because
they're the ones that are essentially in
charge here uh they're the ones who said
what the rules are for guest behavior
and they're the ones who enforce
said rules and they just didn't do that
here they let this lady
have free reign to go accusing whoever
the hell she pleased
basically based on these people being
black
um and she got to behave however she
wanted she put hands on people and
nobody stepped in and it's crazy
dr richie because you know in retail
space i have friends that work at retail
and they'll tell you if you you watch
somebody
walking out the store with an iphone
don't touch them don't follow them don't
do anything you can see something like
that occur and you mind your business
because once you go attacking people and
all of that they got free reign to do
whatever they want with you um this lady
is absolutely lucky the amount of
restraint
that these brothers showed um in that
situation she's lucky that she didn't
get her top
popped
because of this you know and and the
hotel manager just automatically siding
with her the fake damsel in distress
while just casting aspersions on these
completely innocent fellow guests uh
it's awful and i would hope that they
have to pay some level of recompense to
those guests man because this is bs
yeah we're going to follow the case as i
said uh soho carrot has been sued it has
not gone to trial yet so obviously
there's going to be an update to that
case pretty soon