Nury Martinez, captured on the tape making disparaging remarks about various city residents and the young Black son of a fellow council member, earlier resigned the council presidency.
detailing a secretly recorded conversation from last year. She earlier had given up her appointed position as council president and said she was taking a leave from her elective job.
“The language that was used and tolerated during that conversation was unacceptable and it was appalling,” she said. Ron Herrera, the fourth participant in the call, resigned late Monday as head of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, a Latino-dominated political force in the city. The recorded conversation concerned the drawing of new council district lines, and efforts to boost the representation of Latinos, largely to the detriment of Black voters.
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