NYC councilman arrested while protesting woman's eviction from Brooklyn home

A member of the New York City Council was arrested in Brooklyn after protesting the eviction of a woman from her home in his district, according to his office

A member of the New York City Council was arrested in Brooklyn after protesting the eviction of a woman from her home in his district, according to his office.

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Councilmember Chi Ossé was charged and taken into custody Wednesday after his office said he was trying to help a constituent who was at risk of losing the Bedford-Stuyvesant home she has lived in for six decades.

Ossé has been working to help Carmella Charrington reverse what she has said was an act of deed theft: Bad actors who duped her elderly father and stole the title to the Brooklyn building.