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‘Free Palestine. Netanyahu burn in hell’: Chi Ossé posts after his arrest at Netanyahu protest

Council Members Chi Ossé and Jennifer Gutiérrez were among 104 people arrested Thursday at a Jewish Voice for Peace sit-in near the United Nations during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, according to Gutiérrez's office.

City Council Member Chi Ossé, wearing a white T-shirt that reads "Fund people not bombs," stands in handcuffs among NYPD officers during a protest near the United Nations.
Council Member Chi Ossé in police custody near the United Nations on Sept. 24, in a photo he posted to Instagram. Photo via Chi Ossé/Instagram

‘Free Palestine. Netanyahu burn in hell’: Chi Ossé posts after his arrest at Netanyahu protest

Council Members Chi Ossé and Jennifer Gutiérrez were among 104 people arrested Thursday at a Jewish Voice for Peace sit-in near the United Nations during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, according to Gutiérrez's office.

‘Free Palestine. Netanyahu burn in hell’: Chi Ossé posts after his arrest at Netanyahu protest

Council Member Chi Ossé posted a photo of himself in handcuffs, surrounded by NYPD officers near the United Nations, after he was arrested Thursday at a sit-in protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the U.N. General Assembly. “Free Palestine. Netanyahu burn in hell,” Ossé, who represents Council District 36 in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, wrote in the post.

Ossé was one of 104 people arrested at the sit-in, where protesters sat in the street at First Avenue and East 39th Street, south of U.N. headquarters, to demand an…

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Filed underAber Kawas / Alexa Avilés / Bushwick / Chi Ossé / Christian Celeste Tate / Darializa Avila Chevalier / David Orkin / emily gallagher / Jennifer Gutiérrez / Jewish Voice for Peace

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