A New York City councilman was thrown to the ground and arrested while he was protesting an elderly constituent’s eviction from her home, resulting from deed theft.
Video footage shows the moments NYPD officers forcefully wrestle Brooklyn Council Member Chi Ossé to the ground and handcuff him on April 22.
In a statement, Ossé wrote that he was working to defend his constituent, Carmilla Charrington, against a planned eviction from a Bedford Stuyvesant home she has lived in for six decades.
The footage shows Ossé trying to block city marshals from accessing the property to execute the eviction…