{"id":207919,"date":"2026-04-24T01:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207919\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:15:07","slug":"councilman-chi-osse-reflects-on-eviction-protest-and-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207919\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilman Chi Oss\u00e9 reflects on eviction protest and arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Councilman Chi Oss\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/04\/22\/councilmember-chi-oss--arrested-during-eviction-dispute-in-brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was arrested at a demonstration<\/a> outside a Brooklyn brownstone that is the site of an eviction dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Oss\u00e9 and other protesters have alleged a woman was being evicted due to deed theft, but a spokesman for the New York attorney general\u2019s office told NY1 that the office does not consider this a case of deed theft involving fraud or a scam.<\/p>\n<p>The councilman has been a leader in the fight against deed theft and says the practice disproportionately affects Black homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>Oss\u00e9 joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Thursday to discuss his arrest and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shaken up a little bit yesterday,\u201d saying he had a minor concession. \u201cBut it\u2019s less about me what took place yesterday and more about this epidemic of deed theft that we are seeing impacting New Yorkers across the five boro as well as across the state. People are being pushed out of their homes, and as an elected official and as a person, that\u2019s an issue that I greatly take an issue with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He represents neighborhoods in central Brooklyn, including all or parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councilman Chi Oss\u00e9 was arrested at a demonstration outside a Brooklyn brownstone that is the site of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,12,56,63,65,64,380,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-207919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-app-inside-city-hall","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-inside-city-hall-segments","11":"tag-inside-city-hall-shows","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207919","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=207919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}