{"id":1682314,"date":"2022-10-10T19:19:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T23:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682314"},"modified":"2022-10-10T19:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T23:21:29","slug":"la-city-council-president-steps-down-after-racist-audio-recordings-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-city-council-president-steps-down-after-racist-audio-recordings-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"LA City Council President Steps Down After \u2018Racist\u2019 Audio Recordings Leaked"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fla-city-council-president-steps-down-after-racist-audio-recordings-leaked%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=1682314&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a> City Councilor Nury Martinez stepped down as the council\u2019s\u00a0president on Oct. 10 after audio recordings of her and two other councilors\u2019 \u201cracist\u201d remarks surfaced the day before, with\u00a0a wave of politicians\u2014including Mayor Eric Garcetti\u2014calling for them to resign from the council altogether.<\/p>\n<p>After the audio was leaked, a slew of California politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, came forward to condemn her comments. The incident comes just a month away from the Nov. 8 general election, in which Martinez was campaigning for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>The recording, dated October 2021\u2014published by a now-suspended Reddit user and first reported by the Los Angeles Times\u2014included Councilmen Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Le\u00f3n, and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera.<\/p>\n<p>In the recording, Martinez, 49, spoke about Councilman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mike-bonin\">Mike Bonin<\/a>\u2019s black son as \u201cParece changuito\u201d\u2014which is translated to \u201clike a little monkey\u201d\u2014while recalling seeing Bonin\u2019s son on a float during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, where she said the child was like \u201can accessory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1037905684.jpg\"><\/a> Councilmember Mike Bonin attends the Palisades Village grand opening private ribbon-cutting ceremony at Palisades Village in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2018. (Amanda Edwards\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>De Le\u00f3n chimed in and said Bonin treats his child the same way as \u201cwhen Nury brings her Goyard bag or the Louis Vuitton bag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez appeared to suggest Bonin\u2019s son was misbehaving on the float, and if she and another woman didn\u2019t step in to \u201cparent his kid\u201d the float may have tumbled over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re raising him like a little white kid,\u201d Martinez was heard saying. \u201cI was like, \u2018this kid needs a beatdown,\u2019 let me take him around the corner, and then I\u2019ll bring him back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, Martinez used multiple slurs in Spanish to describe Bonin\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>While referencing Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles City Councilor Nury Martinez stepped down as the council\u2019s\u00a0president on Oct. 10 after audio recordings of her and two other councilors\u2019 \u201cracist\u201d remarks surfaced the day before, with\u00a0a wave of politicians\u2014including Mayor Eric Garcetti\u2014calling for them to resign from the council altogether. After the audio was leaked, a slew of California politicians, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1682314","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\/1682314","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\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}