{"id":206105,"date":"2026-04-22T15:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206105\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:42:44","slug":"councilmember-chi-osse-arrested-during-eviction-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206105\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilmember Chi Oss\u00e9 arrested during eviction dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Councilmember Chi Oss\u00e9 was arrested Wednesday while attempting to stop one of his constituents from getting evicted from her Brooklyn home, his press secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>A video shared by Oss\u00e9&#8217;s office shows NYPD officers pinning him to the ground while taking him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn State Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/phara4assembly\/status\/2046954082493997333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said the arrest happened outside a property on Jefferson Avenue<\/a> in Bedford-Stuyvesant that is &#8220;currently in an active deed theft dispute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Oss\u00e9&#8217;s press secretary, Saha Guerrero, said Oss\u00e9 was &#8220;arrested while defending his constituent, Carmella Charrington, from eviction after six decades in her home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York State Attorney General&#8217;s office, <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/publications\/deed-theft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deed theft<\/a> happens when the title to a home is taken without the homeowner&#8217;s knowledge or consent, often through forgery or deception.<\/p>\n<p>Oss\u00e9 is currently being held at the NYPD&#8217;s 79th Precinct, Guerrero said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black displacement is happening right now in Bed-Stuy, and Carmella is one of many Black homeowners battling deed theft in Brooklyn,&#8221; Guerrero said in his statement.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero added that Oss\u00e9 has been <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/inside-city-hall\/2026\/02\/03\/councilmember-oss--urges-gov--hochul-to-increase-deed-theft-protections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">advocating for an eviction moratorium<\/a> for homeowners facing deed theft for months.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what charges, if any, Oss\u00e9 may face. NY1 has reached out to the NYPD for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on social media, City Council Speaker Julie Menin said she had seen the videos of Oss\u00e9 \u201cbeing aggressively pushed to the ground and arrested during a protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Menin said she was in contact with his office and the NYPD \u201cto ensure he is safe and quickly released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At an unrelated press conference Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani responded to a question about the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think first is to say that the councilmember is rightly passionate about tackling the scourge of deed theft, and he has been someone who has been leading,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a pleasure to be working with him alongside the creation of efforts that our administration will be delivering on to combat that same scourge, and I&#8217;ll follow up on the details of this arrest,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Councilmember Chi Oss\u00e9 was arrested Wednesday while attempting to stop one of his constituents from getting evicted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[109,387,25,98,100,99,9,24,12,63,87,308,1103,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-206105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-public-safety","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-public-safety","20":"tag-spectrum-news-ny1","21":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}