As calls mount for Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez to resign over racist comments she made about a colleague's son, fallout of the leaked audio is now spilling into the race for L.A. mayor.
Mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso weighed in on the controversy in statements after the audio from an October 2021 conversation became public over the weekend. In it, Martinez is heard referring to Councilman Mike Bonin's Black son by a racist slur in Spanish and referring to his misbehavior during a parade by remarking "I was like, this kid needs a beatdown."
Caruso, her opponent in the race for city mayor, also issued a statement attempting to connect Bass to the scandal. "We are appalled, angry and absolutely disgusted that Nury Martinez attacked our son with horrific racist slurs, and talked about her desire to physically harm him," Bonin wrote in a statement with his partner Sean Arian. "It's vile, abhorrent, and utterly disgraceful."
It was not clear who recorded and initially leaked the conversation, which first appeared anonymously on Reddit but was later removed from the site. The conversationbefore it was taken down from Reddit. Among other comments, Martinez belittled Bonin, who is white and has a Black son, and criticized the child for his behavior at a Martin Luther King Day parade, saying Bonin's son was misbehaving on a float, which might have tipped over if she and the other women on the float didn't step in to "parent this kid."
Cedillo, who was present for the conversation but was not reported to have made any offensive remarks himself, issued an apology for not intervening:
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