Councilman Charles Barron, one of Occupy Wall Street’s top political supporters, is yanking the welcome mat.
In a bizarre about-face, the East New York Democrat now says that occupiers should not squat in a vacant house in his Brooklyn neighborhood — which The Post exposed last week as being owned by a struggling single dad.
“The bottom line is that they have to leave,” said Barron.
The group claimed with much fanfare on Dec. 6 that they were reclaiming the home from a bank and moving in a homeless family.
But The Post found that the family was not living there, occupiers were, and that Wise Ahadzi, the owner, was frantically trying to get it out of foreclosure.
Barron stood front and center on the porch of the house at 702 Vermont St. during the December press conference, where OWS protesters turned the house over to Alfredo Carrasquillo and his family.
Carrasquillo, The Post learned, was an OWS sympathizer, and never permanently moved in. In the minutes of an OWS meeting, members admitted they were worried the neighborhood was turning against the “white invaders.”
“I never said anything about white invaders,” Barron countered. “I’m concerned when an outside group comes in without touching base with us.”
But Ahadzi, an immigrant from Ghana, said he met twice with Barron and that the lawmaker was well aware of OWS’s plans and his effort to renegotiate his mortgage.