Kevin de León announced that he will not resign from the Los Angeles City Council nearly two weeks after a recorded conversation with two colleagues and a top LA County labor official that included racist slurs was made public earlier this month.
The City Council can only request that the members voluntarily step aside. It cannot expel members, only suspend them when criminal charges are pending. Members can be censured but that doesn't result in suspension or removal from office.
Martinez, Cedillo and De León issued apologies a day after the recording was made public, first published in the Los Angeles Times. Among other comments, Martinez belittled Bonin, who is white and has a Black son, and criticized the child for his behavior at a Martin Luther King Day parade, saying Bonin's son was misbehaving on a float, which might"They're raising him like a little white kid,'' Martinez said."I was like, 'this kid needs a beatdown. Let me take him around the corner and then I'll bring him back.
“We are appalled, angry and absolutely disgusted that Nury Martinez attacked out son with horrific racist slurs, and talked about her desire to physically harm him,” Bonin said in a statement. “It’s vile, abhorrent, and utterly disgraceful. 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.”The remarks stemmed from a conversation about redistricting.
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