ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: The fallout continues on the Los Angeles City Council after racist recordings were leaked earlier this month.
were stripped of their committee positions, as protests urging them to step down continue. Former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera both resigned last week due to their involvement in the scandal.
"I think we've seen a contrast between a set of comments that were deeply divisive, that revealed divisions between the Black and Latino communities in Los Angeles, and within the Latino community," said, professor of political science at the University of California San Diego."All of these comments were incredibly divisive, but we've seen a unified response."
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