Both men filed battery reports with the Los Angeles Police Department.
The decision prompted criticism from both people involved in the Dec. 9 fight, which occurred at a community event in Lincoln Heights. Both de León and activist Jason Reedy had accused the other of being the aggressor.
“He assaulted a woman on my staff, a community member and me at a children’s Christmas toy giveaway,” the councilman said. “A week prior, he stalked multiple women on my staff at my field office late at night. This man has a clear pattern of calculated violent behavior.” The scuffle occurred at Lincoln Park, where de León was attending a community Christmas event. At the time, the councilman was under intense pressure from some members of the public and his council colleagues to resign over his participation in a 2021 racially charged conversation with two other council members and a labor leader that was caught on tape and publicly released. The tape led to the resignation of then-Council President Nury Martinez.
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