Karen Bass previously represented Los Angeles as the District 37 U.S. House representative. She defeated opponent Rick Caruso in November to become the first woman mayor of the city.
Karen Bass was sworn in as the mayor of Los Angeles on Sunday, becoming the first woman in the role.
In October, recordings from a 2021 meeting were made public, in which then-Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez and Councilmen Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León were conversing about redistricting and made several racist remarks about Black residents.Martinez resigned, while Cedillo lost reelection. Days of protests outside city hall have followed since the recordings became public, and de León was involved in a physical altercation with an activist Friday at a holiday event.
At Sunday's ceremony, after being sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, Bass said her first task as mayor will be to declare homelessness a state of emergency in the city.
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