Los Angeles City Council member Nury Martinez has resigned from office after making racist remarks about a fellow council member and his Black child
[Breaking news update, published at 5:50 p.m. ET] “It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council District 6, the community I grew up in and my home,” she said in a news release. [Original story, published at 4:32 p.m. ET] A day after Los Angeles City Council’s president resigned from her post for making racist remarks, the new acting president proposed several changes to help move the city forward.
In clips of the leaked audio posted by the Times, Martinez is heard recounting a conversation and says “Bonin thinks he’s f**king Black.” According to the Times, Martinez says Bonin appeared with his son on a float in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade and he “handled his young Black son as though he were an accessory.” The boy is 8 years old, according to a Facebook post by his father. The Times reported that Martinez also said of Bonin’s child, “Parece changuito,” or “He’s like a monkey.
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