{"id":1682012,"date":"2022-10-10T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682012"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:25:08","slug":"democrat-president-of-los-angeles-city-council-resigns-after-leaked-audio-of-racist-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-president-of-los-angeles-city-council-resigns-after-leaked-audio-of-racist-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat President of Los Angeles City Council Resigns After Leaked Audio of Racist Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-president-of-los-angeles-city-council-resigns-after-leaked-audio-of-racist-comments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682012&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned Monday after audio leaked of her\u00a0racist remarks about a colleague&#8217;s child and Oaxacan immigrants in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Nury Martinez apologized and resigned &#8220;effective immediately&#8221; in a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-10-10\/la-city-council-president-nury-martinez-steps-down-audio-leak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">reported by the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The audio, posted anonymously on Reddit and reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-10-09\/city-council-leaked-audio-nury-martinez-kevin-de-leon-gil-cedillo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">by the L.A.\u00a0Times on Sunday<\/a>, includes Martinez\u00a0saying a\u00a0white council member \u201chandled his young Black son as though he were an accessory&#8221; and describing the colleague&#8217;s son in Spanish as \u201clike a monkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Martinez also reportedly called the colleague,\u00a0councilmember Mike Bonin, an expletive,\u00a0according to the audio shared by the Times, and discussed the child&#8217;s behavior during a parade, allegedly saying his parents are &#8220;raising him like a little white kid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I was like, this kid needs a beatdown,&#8221; Martinez reportedly said.\u00a0&#8220;Let me take him around the corner and then I&#8217;ll bring him back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Martinez also reportedly referred to Oaxacan immigrants living in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles as \u201clittle short dark people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>THIS IS AMERICA:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/profile.usatoday.com\/newsletters\/this-is-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Sign up for USA TODAY\u2019s free weekly take on the news from reporters from a range of backgrounds and experiences<\/a><\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I take responsibility for what I said and there are no excuses for those comments. I\u2019m so sorry,&#8221; she said in the statement reported by the Times. &#8220;As a mother, I know better and I am sorry. I am truly ashamed. I know this is the result of my own actions. I\u2019m sorry to your entire family for putting you through this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The conversation reportedly took place in October 2021 between Martinez,\u00a0council members Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Le\u00f3n, and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera, according to the Times. The conversation was largely focused on the council&#8217;s frustration with proposed redistricting maps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Audio of the conversation was first posted on Reddit this month by a now-suspended user, the\u00a0Times reported. It is unknown who recorded the audio and\u00a0posted the file\u00a0and whether anyone else was present at the time of recording.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Multiple council candidates, political groups and sitting council members had called for Martinez&#8217;s resignation, including Bonin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We are appalled, angry and absolutely disgusted that Nury Martinez attacked our son with horrific racist slurs, and talked about her desire to physically harm him,&#8221; Bonin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikebonin\/status\/1579215107229650944\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">wrote in a joint statement with his husband, Sean Arian<\/a>. &#8220;The City Council needs to remove her as Council President immediately, and she needs to resign from office. Any parent reading her comments will know she is unfit for public office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The audio comes less than a month before the city&#8217;s elections for mayor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2022\/06\/07\/la-mayor-rick-caruso-karen-bass-november-runoff\/7488991001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">a race between Democrats Karen Bass and Rick Caruso<\/a>, and multiple council seats.\u00a0Martinez has endorsed multiple council candidates ahead of the\u00a0Nov. 8 vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Martinez was elected in 2013 and became the council&#8217;s first Latina president in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contributing: The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned Monday after audio leaked of her\u00a0racist remarks about a colleague&#8217;s child and Oaxacan immigrants in the city.Nury Martinez apologized and resigned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1682014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}