FILE – Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez at podium, and Mayor Eric Garcetti, standing to her right, are seen throughout a press conference at Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles on April 1,2022 The president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned from the post Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, after she was heard making racist remarks and other coarse remarks in a dripped recording of a discussion with other Latino leaders. Council President Nury Martinez released an apology and revealed embarassment. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) The Associated Press By JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP)– The president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned from the post Monday after she was heard making racist remarks and other coarse remarks in a dripped recording of a discussion with other Latino leaders. Council President Nury Martinez provided an apology and revealed embarassment. “In the end, it is not my apologies that matter most; it will be the actions I draw from this day forward. I hope that you will provide me the chance to apologize,” she stated in a declaration. “Therefore, reliable right away I am resigning as President of the Los Angeles City Council.” The declaration did not state she would resign her council seat. There was no instant reaction to a call and e-mail sent out to her workplace. Political Cartoons Martinez stated in the tape-recorded discussion that white Councilmember Mike Bonin managed his young Black boy as if he were an “device” and explained the child as acting “Parece changuito,” or “like a monkey,” the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Martinez likewise described Bonin as a “little bitch” and at another point buffooned Oaxacans, the Times stated. “I see a great deal of little brief dark individuals,” Martinez stated in referral to a specific location of the mainly Hispanic Koreatown community. “I resembled, I do not understand where these individuals are from, I do not understand what town they came (from), how they got here,” Martinez stated, including “Tan feos”– “They’re awful.” The recording’s material rocked the political facility simply weeks prior to elections for the mayor’s workplace and a number of council seats. Bonin and his partner, Sean Arian, belonged to a growing chorus requiring the resignations of Martinez and 2 other council members who were included. “The whole of the tape-recorded discussion … showed a duplicated and repulsive anti-Black belief, and a collaborated effort to compromise Black political representation in Los Angeles,” they stated. Requiring the council members’ resignations were labor leaders, native groups, the state Democratic Party, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, U.S. Rep. Adam B. Schiff and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. “Bigotry, violence, and department frequently reside in hidden and unheard locations, however have extreme effects on the lives of our fellow Angelenos when they are not faced and delegated contaminate our public and personal lives,” Garcetti stated in a declaration The discussion was taped in October 2021, and others present were Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera, the Times reported. The total conversation had to do with aggravations with redistricting maps produced by a city commission. The Times reported that the roughly hourlong audio was published on Reddit by a now-suspended user, which it was uncertain who tape-recorded the audio and whether anybody else was prese
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