A day earlier, Susan Zhuang, a first-year Democratic councilwoman from Brooklyn, was charged with assault after the police said she had bitten an officer at a protest over a proposed homeless shelter. So, as the Council convened its so-called stated meeting, Ms. Zhuang drew much of the attention…
Speaking in front of an enthusiastic crowd of well-wishers, Ms. Zhuang said that she was trying to protect an older woman who had tumbled to the ground by police barricades erected at the protest. She said that she and other protesters had asked in vain for a barricade to be removed to give the woman safe passage…
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