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Nury Martinez apologized for the October 2021 remarks during a meeting over redistricting with fellow council members Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo and labor leader Ron Herrera, and stepped down as city council president on Monday. She did not say she would resign her council seat. All the politicians involved are Democrats.
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In the leaked audio, the Latino leaders can be heard denigrating various groups of constituents as they try to determine how to use the redistricting process to secure more political power for Latinos. The clips captured [Martinez] calling a colleague’s Black son “a little monkey.” Of the LA district attorney, Martinez said: “F*ck that guy – he’s with the Blacks.” De León and Herrera can also be heard speaking dismissively of Black voters.
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Latinos make up about half the Los Angeles population of about 4 million. Martinez was elected to the council in 2013 and became its first Latina president in 2020. As of 2018, her district had a primarily Latino population that outnumbered Black voters.