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City Council Exonerates Lawmaker for Rally Gun Incident

12/11/2025

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The City Council's standards and ethics committee unanimously decided against further investigation into Inna Vernikov, a Republican Brooklyn lawmaker, after she brought a firearm to a 2023 pro-Palestinian rally at Brooklyn College.
Vernikov defended her actions as exercising her Second Amendment rights, citing rising crime.
She was previously arrested for criminal possession of a firearm.
The charges were dropped after it was found that the gun was rendered unusable.

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The City Council's standards and ethics committee unanimously decided against further investigation into Inna Vernikov, a Republican Brooklyn lawmaker, after she brought a firearm to a 2023 pro-Palestinian rally at Brooklyn College.
Vernikov defended her actions as exercising her Second Amendment rights, citing rising crime.
She was previously arrested for criminal possession of a firearm.
The charges were dropped after it was found that the gun was rendered unusable.