Nury Martinez, the former Los Angeles city council president who stepped down this week from that role following the publication of a 2021 recording that captured her making racist remarks, resigned from the council.
and resigned as president, but she resisted calls to step down from the council altogether even as pressure from all corners of the political world rose swiftly.
Council meetings held Tuesday and Wednesday were disrupted by protesters who flooded the gallery and vented their anger about the stunning revelations. On the leaked recording, Martinez also made disparaging comments about Oaxacan immigrants in Koreatown, calling them "little short dark people," according to the audio first reported by the Times.
“I do not believe we can have the healing that is necessary or govern as we need to while councilmembers Martinez, De León and Cedillo remain as members of this council,” O’Farrell said Tuesday. “I say those words with a heavy heart but this is a heavy and a deeply tragic moment for this city.”“There needs to be an investigation and those officials must resign but that's not enough,” Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif.
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