Inna Vernikov’s arrest comes as the week-long war between Israel and Hamas ignites passions across the United States.
New York Democrats and critics are calling on a Republican city councilwoman to resign after she was arrested for carrying a handgun at a pro-Palestinian rally on a Brooklyn college campus this week.
Vernikov, 39, who is Jewish and represents southern Brooklyn, surrendered to police early Friday and was charged with criminal possession of a firearm. Vernikov turned herself in after images circulated online of her with a gun tucked into her waistband while at the Brooklyn College demonstration, a New York Police Department spokesperson told The Washington Post.
Democrat Amber Adler, who is challenging Vernikov’s city council seat in next month’s general election, has called on the council to expel Vernikov.The city council’s nearly two dozen members of the Progressive Caucus took the calls for accountability a step further Friday“Her willingness to endanger the lives of students cannot go unnoticed and without consequences,” the group said in a statement.” for Gaza, including attacks by land, sea and air, after warning the entire population of 1.
The Philadelphia chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights organization, pressed state and federal law enforcement agencies to charge the individual with hate crimes and ethnic intimidation.. She ran for office in 2021 and “flipped a seat that has been traditionally Democratic for more than one hundred years,” her website says.
“Council Member Vernikov carrying and showing off a weapon as a tool of intimidation and seeming threat of violence against protesters shows a dangerous dereliction of our duty as elected officials to help New Yorkers be and feel safe,” he said in a
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