NYPD video shows a woman physically assaulting a teenager she claims to have stolen her phone

Harrison tweeted the multi-angle video of the hotel room, showing a woman in a light-colored cap quickly rushing to someone who appears to be Harrison’s son with a red cap. The woman grabs his waist and the two fall to the floor.

CNN requested the unmodified video from both the NYPD and the Arlo Hotel, and both declined to provide a copy.

Harrold and his son are black and were guests at the Manhattan Hotel. The woman’s ethnicity in the video is unclear, although New York police described her as White.

Harrold’s video of the meeting was widely shared on social media, prompting a shout-out about what many considered to be yet another racial incident against black men. The hotel apologized and called the woman’s behavior “unfounded accusation, prejudice and aggression against an innocent guest.”

Harrold said in an Instagram post that he and his son left their hotel room for breakfast when they met the woman.

The teenager’s parents, Keyon Harrold Jr., and their lawyer Ben Crump said Wednesday that they are meeting with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. They told CNN’s Don Lemon that DA told them the video was worse than what the father posted on Instagram on Sunday.

The parents and their lawyer claim that the incident was racially motivated, but the NYPD said on Tuesday that it is not being investigated as a bias offense.

After watching the surveillance video, investigators are considering accusing the woman of assault and possibly theft or attempted robbery, Harrison said Tuesday.

The woman’s phone was returned to the hotel a few moments after the incident by a vehicle she used before trying to check in at the hotel, according to Harrison.

The woman did not show up, but CNN was the first news organization to speak to her on Tuesday. She challenged Harrold’s account of what had happened.

While the 22-year-old woman claimed that she was assaulted during the altercation, CNN failed to corroborate her account with the investigators or with the hotel where the incident took place.

In a 20-minute telephone interview, in which she acted erratically and sometimes got lost, she said the incident took place after she first asked to see the hotel’s surveillance video to try to identify who would take the phone.

She says she then asked someone else in the hotel lobby to “empty her pocket” before finally confronting Keyon Harrold Jr., whom she claimed had her phone in her pocket.

“Then everything got a little more serious,” the woman said, referring to the interaction.

The woman said she would be willing to cooperate, talk to the NYPD and the Harrold family. CNN made repeated and unsuccessful attempts to contact the woman on Tuesday.