A raucous scene greeted the start of a Los Angeles city council meeting after the leak of an audiotape revealed councilors using racist language, and singling out a white council-member's Black adopted son for mockery
LOS ANGELES, Oct 11 - A Los Angeles city councilwoman day took a leave of absence from her post on Tuesday as a furor raged around her and two colleagues over racist comments she was heard making on an audiotape of their private conversation.
"This has been one of the most difficult times of my life and I recognize this is entirely of my own making,” Martinez, 49, said in the statement." At this moment, I need to take a leave of absence and take some time to have an honest and heartfelt conversation with my family, my constituents, and community leaders.
"He believes that they all should resign. The language that was used and tolerated during that conversation was unacceptable, and it was appalling. They should all step down," Karine Jean-Pierre told a White House briefing. The recorded conversation took place in October 2021 but came to light only this week after it was posted on a Reddit message board and reported by the Times.
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