President Joe Biden called for the resignation of Los Angeles City Council members who took part in a racist conversation that was caught on a leaked audio recording.
Los Angeles official Nury Martinez has resigned after leaked audio revealed her spewing racist remarks about a fellow council member's Black son.The White House said Tuesday that President Joe Biden wants to see resignations from all three members of the Los Angeles City Council who took part in racist conversation that was captured in a leaked audio recording.
Four L.A. political heavyweights – including three Latino members of the L.A. City Council – are heard making racist remarks in the recording, first reported by the Los Angeles Times. Its release is the most recent episode in a long-standing racial divide between Latino and Black communities within one of the nation's most diverse cities.
Martinez could be heard making racist statements about the Black child of a white council members, Mike Bonin, he “handled his young Black son as though he were an accessory." She also described the son in Spanish as “like a monkey.”
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