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Carmella Charrington, 54, spent six days in Rikers Island jail after Civil Court Judge Rachel Freier sentenced her for failing to produce her father in court in a property dispute. Charrington told Prism that the judge dismissed the doctor’s note she brought to excuse her father’s absence due to him having COVID.
On April 22, the morning after Charrington’s release, city marshalls and sheriff’s deputies arrived at her family’s brownstone at 212 Jefferson Ave. in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant to attempt an eviction. What followed was caught on video. New York City Council Member Chi Ossé, who had come to stand with Charrington, was handcuffed by police officers and later said he suffered a concussion…