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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>New York Police said Tuesday that they have identified &#8216;SoHo Karen&#8217;,</strong> <strong>and may charge her with grand larceny or attempted robbery </strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>On Saturday the yet to be identified white woman tackled a blak teenager Keyon Harrold Jr, 14, and his jazz musician father, claiming the teen stole her cellphone at the Arlo Hotel in SoHo, </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>Moments later an Uber driver returned the phone she&#8217;d left in his car </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>The NYPD said Tuesday that they have identified &#8216;SoHo Karen&#8217;, who lives out of state</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>Cops said they are trying to locate her, but haven&#8217;t released her name</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said Tuesday they may charge her with assault, grand larceny or attempted robery, instead of raced based bias</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>Appearing with his parents on ABC&#8217;s Good Morning America on Tuesday, Harrold Jr said he&#8217;s still &#8216;shell-shocked&#8217; following the attack</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>&#8216;I don’t know what would have happened if my dad wasn’t there. These past few days, still kind of shell-shocked, but I’m hanging in there,&#8217; he said Tuesday</strong> </h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>Keyon Harrold believes that he and his son, who are both Black, were racially profiled by the woman</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>Now both the Manhattan DA and the NYPD are investigating the incident </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#564849"><strong>The hotel has placed the manager involved in the incident on leave pending an internal investigation ;</strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Soho-Karen-11.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-365817"/><figcaption><strong>The New York Police Department said Tuesday that they have identified &#8216;SoHo Karen&#8217;, are trying to locate her and may charge her with assault and grand larceny or attempted robbery ;</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The New York Police Department said Tuesday that they have identified &#8216;SoHo Karen&#8217; and may charge her with assault, grand larceny or attempted robbery.<br>On Saturday, jazz musician Keyon Harrold and his 14-year-old son, Keyon Harrold Jr., were staying at the Arlo hotel in Soho when they were confronted by an unidentified white woman in the lobby. <br>Harrold started recording video of the incident that showed the woman screaming at his teenage son. She accused the teen of stealing her cell phone. ;<br>She wa haranguing he duo of father and son while standing beside a man who identified himself as a hotel manager. <br>She asked the manager to take the phone from the teenager. “Take the case off that’s mine. Literally get it back,” she tells the manager. <br>Harrold responded as they moved through the lobby, “You think there’s only one iPhone made in the world?” <br>The woman followed, then allegedly tackled Harrold’s son.<br>As she pushed and grabbed the two, she scratched Keyon Sr’s hands in her fight for the phone, which she wrongly thought was hers. <br>Her phone was reportedly found in an Uber and returned to her by the driver a few minutes after the squabble.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Keyon-Harrold-Jr-left-with-his-father-Keyon-Harrold-Sr-right-4.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-365802"/><figcaption><strong>On Saturday SoHo Karen approached black jazz artist Keyon Harrold [right], and his 14-year-old</strong> <strong>son Keyon Jr [left], in the lobby of the boutique Arlo Hotel in SoHo and accused the teen of stealing her cell phone before she engaged father and son in a scuffle, as she tried to grab the phone</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>On Tuesday NYPD announced that &#8216;Karen&#8217; has been positively identified and detectives are trying to locate her and the case is not being investigated as a bias incident.<br>Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said during a press briefing Tuesday: &#8216;We believe that she lives out of state so we’re trying to ascertain if she’s still within the New York City area.&#8217; ;<br>Harrison said the case was initially classified as harassment but it has since changed. ; ;<br>&#8216;After we were able to get video, we’re now looking to charge this individual with assault and maybe even look at grand larceny or maybe even attempted robbery,&#8217; he said. ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Soho-Karen-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-365776" width="613" height="393"/><figcaption><strong>The masked slipped and the face of the woman now called &#8216;Soho Karen&#8217; was on view during the encounter the Arlo Hotel, NYC on Dec 26. NYPD say they have positvely identified her </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Harrison said that Keyon Jr didn&#8217;t suffer any injuries in the incident, but his father was scratched. ;<br>&#8216;Our perpetrator initially started a verbal argument of this accusation and then tried to attack our teenager by grabbing for his phone, grabbing his leg and trying to tackle him. <br>Our victim didn’t suffer any injuries. But his father, who he was with, received slight injuries,&#8217; he said during a press briefing. ;<br>On Monday the Manhattan District Attorney and NYPD announced they were investigating the incident. ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Ben-Crump-tweet-on-Soho-Karen-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-365788"/><figcaption><strong>Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has called for her to be criminally charged</strong> <strong>in a Twitter post on Monday</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The family&#8217;s lawyer Ben Crump is petitioning the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s office to press charges including assault and battery. ;<br>On Tuesday morning Keyon Sr, a Grammy-winning musician, and his son appeared on Good Morning America, where the teen said he feared for his life. ;<br>Meanwhile a source close to the hotel revealed that as of Tuesday the manager involved in the incident has been placed on leave pending an internal investigation. ;<br>On Tuesday morning Keyon Sr, a Grammy-winning musician, and his son appeared on Good Morning America, where the teen said he feared for his life. ;<br>&#8216;I don’t know what would have happened if my dad wasn’t there. These past few days, still kind of shell-shocked, but I’m hanging in there,&#8217; Keyon Harrold Jr said on<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/teen-family-speak-woman-falsely-accused-teen-phone-74946012"> ;Good Morning America ;</a>Tuesday.<br>&#8216;For me I was confused because I had never seen that lady ever and I didn’t know what to do in the moment. That’s why I was happy to have my dad here to help me,&#8217; he said. ; ; ; ; ; ;</p>



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<p>Harrold’s video went viral over the weekend, racking up over 1.8 million views on Instagram alone.<br>Harrold ;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/nyregion/keyon-harrold-racial-profiling.html">believes</a> he and his son, who are both Black, were racially profiled by the woman. Harrold said on Instagram that the hotel told him the woman’s missing phone was dropped off by an Uber driver soon after the confrontation.<br>“No apology from her after this traumatic situation to my son, not me. No apologies from the establishment. This shit happens so often. It needs to stop!!!” Harrold wrote on Instagram on Sunday. <br>The who hotel later apologized, said that they The hotel told they had called <em> ;</em> called police during the incident.<br>During his Tuesday press conference, NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison announced that police obtained security camera footage from the hotel that will likely lead to serious charges. “We’re now looking to charge this individual with assault and maybe even look at grand larceny or maybe even attempted robbery,” Harrison said. </p>

NYPD identify ‘Soho Karen’, set to charge her with grand larceny or attempted robbery after she tackled 14-year-old black teen claiming he stole her phone – moments before an Uber driver returned it
