Woman hedges apology in hotel attack interview

NEW YORK » A woman who wrongly accused a Black teenager of stealing her cellphone and tackled him at a New York City hotel appeared to back off her apology in a TV interview, suggesting without evidence that maybe he did try to steal her phone after all.

“So, maybe it wasn’t him but at the same time how is it so that as soon as I get asked to leave the premises after I had accused this person of stealing my phone, how is that all of a sudden they just miraculously have my phone at the back?” 22-year- old Miya Ponsetto said in the interview on “CBS This Morning.”

Ponsetto was arrested over the Dec. 26 confrontation with 14-year- old Keyon Harrold Jr.