Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood by his new top tenant advocate Tuesday after her past inflammatory social media posts sparked a firestorm — and a warning shot from the Trump administration.
Longtime housing activist Cea Weaver, the new director of the Office to Protect Tenants, received a boost from Mamdani even as controversy engulfed his administration over her recently unearthed posts branding homeownership “a weapon of white supremacy” and declaring, “Seize private property.”
“We made the decision to have Cea Weaver serve as our executive director for the mayor’s office to protect tenants, to build on the work that she has done to protect tenants across the city, and we were already seeing the results of that work,” Mamdani told reporters following an unrelated news conference.
It came as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice Harmeet Dhillon said on One America News Network the feds were ready to “swoop in” to protect Big Apple residents in response to Weaver’s shocking views.
“They should be on notice, they’re on high scrutiny,” Dhillon of city government.
