Soho Karen Miya Ponsetto mocked for always wearing crop tops and Birkenstocks

Soho Karen Miya Ponsetto has been a daily fixture in headlines ever since she was recognized as the girl filmed attacking a 14-year-old black boy – however now the 22-year-old former cheerleader is incomes consideration for a really completely different purpose: her style decisions. 

Particularly, her weird dedication to crop tops, Birkenstocks, and leggings, a sartorial mixture that she has modeled time and time once more – even throughout essentially the most somber of events, like Saturday’s New York Metropolis courtroom listening to throughout which she was arraigned for the assault on Keyon Harrold Jr. 

Ponsetto was pictured being led out of the NYPD’s 1st Precinct in handcuffs on Saturday morning sporting a pair of high-waisted black leggings, a cropped burgundy sweater, and a pair of grey Birkenstock sandals over black socks.  

Uniform: Soho Karen Miya Ponsetto has earned recent criticism on-line, this time for her style decisions, after she was repeatedly pictured sporting a crop high, leggings, and Birkenstocks

Appropriate? The 22-year-old was slammed for selecting to sporting a model of the informal look to her courtroom listening to in New York Metropolis on January 9, when she was charged with 4 felonies 

Method again when: On Monday, video footage emerged of Ponsetto being arrested for a DUI in October. Within the clip, she is as soon as once more seen modeling a crop high and Birkenstock sandals

The extremely informal ensemble prompted questions from baffled social media customers, who had been horrified by Ponsetto’s choice to put on such a casual outfit to such an essential event, with one particular person writing on Twitter: ‘Who seems in entrance of a decide wearing a crop high? This piece of trash, that is who.’

Others identified that the mix of crop high, leggings and Birkenstock has turn into one thing of a ‘uniform’ for the California native, who has been pictured on various events in latest weeks sporting a distinct variation of the look. 

On Monday, footage of Ponsetto being arrested in October for a DUI in her house state of California emerged – displaying her screaming at cops, whereas they try and cuff her. 

As soon as once more, the 22-year-old is seen modeling a crop high and a really tattered pair of Birkenstocks – though on this event, she paired her favourite style gadgets with some denims and a black belt. 

Ponsetto first shot to infamy after Keyon Jr’s father, Grammy-winning jazz artist Keyon Harrold, posted a video of her taken on the Arlo SoHo resort by which she might be seen grabbing on the teen whereas repeatedly accusing him of snatching her cellphone. 

He captioned it: ‘On Saturday, December 26, the girl on this video falsely accused an harmless 14-year-old teenager of stealing her cellphone.

‘She then proceeded to bodily assault him and fled the placement earlier than law enforcement officials arrived on scene.’ 

Uniform: Many social media customers and DailyMail.com readers have criticized her look of selection, which she is seen sporting throughout a visit to McDonald’s on January 1 

A second video launched by the NYPD reveals Ponsetto, who was swiftly dubbed Soho Karen, operating on the little one and grabbing at his waist. Moments after the video ended, an Uber driver arrived with Ponsetto’s cellphone, which she had left within the car. 

Shortly after the incident – for which Ponsetto has since been charged with 4 felonies: tried theft, endangering the welfare of a kid, tried grand larceny, and tried assault – the previous cheerleader fled again to California, the place she was pictured in unique DailyMail.com photographs making a fast journey to an area McDonald’s, whereas as soon as once more modeling a crop high, leggings, and her beloved sandal-sock mixture. 

Days later, Ponsetto was arrested on a New York warrant following a short automobile chase in her house state of California, and was remanded in jail after she agreed to be extradited to New York to face felony prices. 

Video footage of the extradition listening to captures one of many uncommon events when Ponsetto has been seen sporting something apart from a crop high and leggings; as a substitute, she was compelled to seem in blue and pink jail scrubs. 

Nevertheless, upon her return to New York, Soho Karen took the chance to as soon as once more embrace her favourite style look, sporting the mix for her courtroom listening to – earlier than donning completely different variations of the type the next day when she was pictured flying house to California from Newark. 

For this outing, Ponsetto opted for orange leggings and a long-sleeved black crop high, and her well-worn Birkenstock sandals, which she paired with an outsized denim jacket and a black baseball cap that includes the phrase ‘Daddy’ throughout the entrance. 

A number of DailyMail.com readers commented on the airport photographs to query why Ponsetto solely ever appears to put on completely different variations of the identical look – with one particular person writing: ‘Does she personal any garments apart from leggings, crop tops, and Birkenstock’s?’ 

Oh pricey: One particular person described Ponsetto’s crop top-and-leggings look as ‘trash’. She is seen sporting the outfit in LA after flying again to her house state from New York on January 10

Distinctive: Upon her arrival again in California, Ponsetto was additionally seen sporting a baseball cap with the phrase ‘Daddy’ throughout the entrance of it 

Fortunate appeal? She additionally wore the baseball cap throughout an interview with CBS This Morning – regardless of her lawyer advising her to take away the offensive accent 

‘Is leggings and ragged sandals with socks the one factor this lady wears?? On a critical observe, she wants some extreme psychological assist,’ a 3rd particular person wrote. 

Others have voiced confusion over her selection of hat, which she was first seen modeling throughout a January 8 interview with CBS This Morning’s Gayle King, hours earlier than her arrest. 

‘I’m not understanding how Soho Karen thought it was okay to do an interview in a crop high and a dad hat that reads “daddy”,’ one particular person wrote on Twitter, whereas one other added: ‘Omg that Soho Karen had the audacity to indicate up within the interview w/ crop high & hush Gayle. 

‘She deserves NO sympathy & as many prices as potential for false report on a black teen for theft was Flawed!’

Shortly after the interview aired, Ponsetto’s legal professional, Sharen Ghatan, revealed that she had urged her shopper to take away the cap earlier than going on-air, however stated that the 22-year-old had defiantly refused to take it off.    

‘The hat positively wasn’t chosen by me,’ Ghatan informed The Day by day Beast, whereas revealing that she determined to cancel different deliberate interviews after realizing what a practice wreck the CBS one had been.

‘My workplace gave her recommendation on what to put on. We requested her to put on skilled apparel. When she got here to the interview, I informed her the baseball hat would not be one thing we may use within the interview. One due to the lighting, two due to the brand. She was very defiant and insistent that she put on it.  

The place all of it started Ponsetto first shot to infamy after she was filmed attacked 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr within the foyer of the Arlo Lodge in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood 

Unmasked: After the previous cheerleader was recognized, she was arrested and charged with 4 felonies, together with endangering the welfare of a kid and tried theft

Surprising: A second video launched by the NYPD reveals Ponsetto, who was swiftly dubbed Soho Karen, operating on the little one and grabbing at his waist

‘I particularly requested her to take away it earlier than the interview. She stated it is her story, it is her hat, and he or she needs to put on it. She’s a really difficult shopper.’ 

Ponsetto’s arrest got here after days of intense media protection of the fracas on the resort and calls for by the Keyon Jr’s household and activists that Ponsetto face legal prices.

The Harrold household have claimed the incident was racially motivated however Ponsetto has denied this. 

NYPD detectives flew to California to assist find her after Manhattan District Lawyer Cyrus Vance signed off on prices of tried theft and felony fugitive from justice.

The altercation drew comparisons to circumstances like that of Amy Cooper, a white lady who was charged with submitting a false report for calling 911 and saying she was being threatened by ‘an African American man’ throughout a dispute in New York’s Central Park in Could.  

Keyon Jr’s dad and mom have stated her arrest is ‘a begin’.

‘I pray for her. Within the context of all the justifications her legal professional made, at this level it is not even about an apology any extra,’ the teenager’s father informed ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday.

The teenager has been in music remedy ever because the incident, his household say.