One week after an audio leaked, Los Angeles is still reeling from racial tensions laid bare and the uncertainty of its future political leadership.
Here's how racist leaked audio dismantled the Los Angeles City CouncilCouncilmember O'Farrell has served as interim council president since Martinez's resignation, but he has said he has no interest in remaining in the role. O'Farrell is also continuing to call for de León and Cedillo to step down. told local outlet Fox 11 on Friday
Martinez became the city council's first Latina president in 2019. Her term is set to end in December 2024. “There was a real plan of Black erasure, of people who have been here a long time building this city,” Anderson said.Martinez can also be heard in the audio referring to Oaxacan immigrants in the city's Koreatown neighborhood as “little, short dark people.”