She carried a gun counterprotesting a rally for Palestine.
City Council Member Inna Vernikov was arrested Friday and charged with gun possession after being spotted at a rally with the weapon on her hip. | John McCarten/NYC Council Media UnitNEW YORK — City Council Member Inna Vernikov was arrested Friday morning on charges of criminal possession of a firearm after being photographed at a rally with a gun visible on her waist.
She turned herself in to NYPD’s 70th Precinct in Brooklyn, an NYPD spokesperson told POLITICO, and surrendered her gun license., formerly known as Twitter, show Vernikov with a gun on her hip while counterprotesting a pro-Palestinian rally Thursday afternoon outside Brooklyn College. The NYPD spokesperson said it was a black Smith & Wesson 9 mm.
Vernikov is Jewish and has been vocal in support of Israel while claiming the rally would make CUNY campuses unsafe. An NYPD spokesperson told POLITICO early Friday that there had been no arrests or incidents reported related to the protest.saying, “If you are here, standing today with these people, you’re nothing short of a terrorist without the bombs.”
New York City politicians carrying guns is exceedingly rare, and New York City has strict gun laws. State Sen. Julia Salazar “There is no excuse, none whatsoever, for an elected official to bring a firearm to a college campus in New York.”
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