The City Council’s Ethics Committee is expected to vote as soon as next week to formally censure Councilwoman Inna Vernikov for openly carrying a gun at an October 2023 pro-Palestinian protest, sources familiar told the Daily News.

The move to censure isn’t expected to come with any concrete penalty, such as a suspension or fine, the sources said. But the censure measure would condemn her actions and be entered into the official Council record as a formal rebuke of Vernikov — an unusual action for the body to take against one of its own members.

The pistol-packing Republican was arrested and criminally charged shortly after the 2023 pro-Palestine rally, which she was counterprotesting, but the charges were later dropped after police found the weapon was missing a piece and therefore

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