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Student who elicited ‘F— the police’ from L.A. council candidate works for Kevin de León
2 months ago

Student who elicited ‘F— the police’ from L.A. council candidate works for Kevin de León

LA Times  

In a room full of students at Cal State L.A. last week, a young man told Los Angeles City Council candidate Ysabel Jurado that he supports the idea of abolishing the police and wanted to know where she stood on the issue. Jurado’s reply, which included the phrase “F— the police, that’s how I see ‘em,” drew sharp criticism this …

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L.A. council candidate takes heat for saying ‘F— the police’ while discussing LAPD spending
2 months ago

L.A. council candidate takes heat for saying ‘F— the police’ while discussing LAPD spending

LA Times  

L.A. 14th Council District candidates Ysabel Jurado, left, and Kevin de León have been battling over the issue of police spending. The candidate running to unseat Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León faced sharp criticism Monday for saying “F— the police” at a recent meet-and-greet with college students. “Every day, the men and women of the LAPD put their …

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Seeking a Democratic comeback, Kevin de León attends Biden fundraiser
6 months, 1 week ago

Seeking a Democratic comeback, Kevin de León attends Biden fundraiser

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Counciman Kevin de León, seen in September, is seeking reelection after Democratic leaders called for him to resign for his part in a racist recording. Along with the dignitaries attending President Biden’s star-studded fundraiser at Peacock Theater on Saturday night was the man Biden had urged to resign from the Los Angeles City Council: Kevin de León. …

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Column: What would Kevin de León’s comeback mean for Los Angeles?
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: What would Kevin de León’s comeback mean for Los Angeles?

LA Times  

City Councilman Kevin de León, who is running for reelection, waves outside his council office in Los Angeles on Sept. 21. Within the City Council, she led the opposition to a motion that would have limited De León’s power to use discretionary funds for his district. One popular white nationalist site uses the leaked City Council recording to argue that …

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Column: Nury, Kevin and Gil turn to the most weak salsa excuse of all for their racist remarks
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: Nury, Kevin and Gil turn to the most weak salsa excuse of all for their racist remarks

LA Times  

A protester at the Oct. 11, 2022, L.A. City Council meeting calls for the ouster of Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León after the leak of a recording on which the three council members can be heard making racist remarks. The voices — then-Los Angeles City Councilmember Nury Martinez, then-Councilmember Gil Cedillo, Councilmember Kevin de León, and then-Los …

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‘Completely destroyed’: Nury Martinez talks about the leaked recording and her life today
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Completely destroyed’: Nury Martinez talks about the leaked recording and her life today

LA Times  

In Nury Martinez’s first interview since a leaked audio that prompted her resignation from City Hall, the former Los Angeles City Council president said that her comments were not intended to be racist, and that the scandal has left her and her family “completely destroyed.” During the interview with LAist, Martinez said that on the day the audio became public, …

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Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo sue over leaked audio recording
1 year, 2 months ago

Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo sue over leaked audio recording

LA Times  

Two prominent Los Angeles political figures are suing over an incendiary secret recording that upended City Hall nearly a year ago, according to filings posted on the Superior Court’s website. “But the most glaring fact omitted from the public discourse over this conversation is that Mr. Cedillo never made any comment that was even remotely offensive during the illegally recorded …

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Column: Wendy Carrillo explains why she’s running against her former ally, Kevin de León
1 year, 7 months ago

Column: Wendy Carrillo explains why she’s running against her former ally, Kevin de León

LA Times  

Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, at her family home in Boyle Heights, on Thursday is officially announcing her intention to run for Kevin de León’s City Council seat. Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo walks near “El Corrido de Boyle Heights,” a mural painted in 1983 that was defaced by graffiti. When she ran into Brenda Martinez, a member of the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council, …

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Kevin de León doesn't have to resign for L.A. to move on
2 years ago

Kevin de León doesn't have to resign for L.A. to move on

LA Times  

Protesters have tried to shout down Kevin de León at City Council meetings and elsewhere since the release of a racist conversation this fall. Last Tuesday at City Hall, De León’s older Latino male allies insulted Black activists with Trumpian chants of “All lives matter!” Days earlier, protesters opposing the council member disrupted a toy giveaway for low-income Latino children, …

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'Absolute mayhem': Chaos erupts as embattled Los Angeles City Councilman returns to chambers
2 years ago

'Absolute mayhem': Chaos erupts as embattled Los Angeles City Councilman returns to chambers

Raw Story  

Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de León returned to the City Council chambers on Friday for the first time after a recording of a racist conversation among L.A. City Council members was released to the public, the Los Angeles Times reports. City Councilmember Paul Krekorian then called for a 10-minute recess, which ended up lasting for 45 minutes. IN …

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Kevin de León refuses to resign. What happens to his constituents?
2 years, 1 month ago

Kevin de León refuses to resign. What happens to his constituents?

LA Times  

Just down the street from Pamela and Valentin Marquez’s tidy two-bedroom home, next to an industrial strip where trains rumble through the night, is a park and playground with a walking path through oak trees. Protesters set up tents outside his Eagle Rock home with signs that read, “just 25 Black people yelling.” The City Council censured De León and …

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LA police investigating if racist recording taped illegally
2 years, 1 month ago

LA police investigating if racist recording taped illegally

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles detectives are investigating whether a recording last year that captured city councilmembers’ racist remarks was made illegally, the police chief said Tuesday. The uproar began with the release nearly two weeks ago of a previously unknown recording of a 2021 private meeting involving Martinez and Councilmen Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo, as well as …

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L.A. on the Record: A City Council standoff as De León digs in, Cedillo stays silent
2 years, 2 months ago

L.A. on the Record: A City Council standoff as De León digs in, Cedillo stays silent

LA Times  

Then-acting Council President Mitch O’Farrell, left, speaks with Councilmember Kevin de León at a City Council meeting on Oct. 11, two days after the recording came to light. Theoretically, according to Section 207 of the charter, an office becomes vacant when “the incumbent has been absent from the City without the consent of the Council for more than 60 consecutive …

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Column: Is L.A. Councilmember Kevin de León a political dead man walking?
2 years, 2 months ago

Column: Is L.A. Councilmember Kevin de León a political dead man walking?

LA Times  

Political strategists have plenty of advice for Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León, starting with suggestions he quit and disappear for a good while. Politics Once seen as a trailblazer, Kevin de León tumbles after leaked racist tape The racist comments on a recording that rocked Los Angeles City Hall ensnared Councilman Kevin de León in controversy. “Never underestimate …

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LA’s Black-Latino tensions bared in City Council scandal
2 years, 2 months ago

LA’s Black-Latino tensions bared in City Council scandal

Associated Press  

Cross-cultural coalitions have ruled Los Angeles politics for decades, helping elect both Black and Latino politicians to top leadership roles in the huge racially and ethnically diverse city. Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., the executive publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, a Black-run newspaper, wrote afterward of “the cancerous divisiveness that has been secretly harming our progress.” “To discover that these …

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L.A.’s Black-Latino alliance has always been fragile. Can it survive racist recordings?
2 years, 2 months ago

L.A.’s Black-Latino alliance has always been fragile. Can it survive racist recordings?

LA Times  

Jorge Nuño learned the hard way how race, power and politics work in Los Angeles. “I think that is exactly why people are so offended, because that is not who we are,” said Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who is Black and represents South Los Angeles’ 8th Council District. Richard Alatorre, the son of an East Los Angeles beautician and repairman, who …

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Once seen as a trailblazer, Kevin de León tumbles after leaked racist tape
2 years, 2 months ago

Once seen as a trailblazer, Kevin de León tumbles after leaked racist tape

LA Times  

City Councilmember Kevin de León faces calls to resign after a leaked recording revealed his participation in an offensive discussion with political allies. “Kevin is not a racist,” said Fabian Núñez, the former Assembly speaker who has been close to De León since their teenage years. “You don’t know if what he’s saying in public is how he actually feels.” …

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The mystery behind L.A. racist tape scandal: Who leaked it — and why?
2 years, 2 months ago

The mystery behind L.A. racist tape scandal: Who leaked it — and why?

LA Times  

Questions are swirling about the origins of a recording that captured Councilmember Kevin de León and then-council President Nury Martinez, among others, making racist, crude and bigoted remarks. “My goal in life is to get the three of you elected, and you know, I’m just focused on that,” Ron Herrera, president of the federation, told Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo …

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Nury Martinez and the limits of Latinx political representation
2 years, 2 months ago

Nury Martinez and the limits of Latinx political representation

LA Times  

Nury Martinez resigned from the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday, days after The Times published a story in which Martinez and three other prominent Latinx political figures were caught in a leaked audio recording making racist, homophobic and other derogatory comments. As Times columnist Erika D. Smith aptly put it, these comments “bluntly confirm the worst fears of many …

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Los Angeles Council president resigns after racist remarks
2 years, 2 months ago

Los Angeles Council president resigns after racist remarks

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned from the post Monday after she was heard making racist comments and other coarse remarks in a leaked recording of a conversation with other Latino leaders. “Therefore, effective immediately I am resigning as President of the Los Angeles City Council.” The statement did not say she would resign …

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Granderson: City council members' recording isn't just offensive. It's also illuminating
2 years, 2 months ago

Granderson: City council members' recording isn't just offensive. It's also illuminating

LA Times  

So … this is the room where it happens. Not nearly as attractive as Aaron Burr described it in “Hamilton.” In fact — judging from the leaked audio from a 2021 meeting among Los Angeles City Council members Gil Cedillo, Kevin de León and Nury Martinez — the room where it happens is probably the ugliest place in politics. It …

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Los Angeles Council president resigns after racist remarks
2 years, 2 months ago

Los Angeles Council president resigns after racist remarks

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Therefore, effective immediately I am resigning as President …

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Breaking down crucial moments in the racist leaked recording of L.A. councilmembers
2 years, 2 months ago

Breaking down crucial moments in the racist leaked recording of L.A. councilmembers

LA Times  

In what they thought was a private conversation, some of the most powerful people in Los Angeles politics gathered to discuss the city’s once-every-decade redistricting process. Martinez and the other Latino leaders present during the taped conversation were seemingly unaware they were being recorded as Martinez said a white councilmember handled his young Black son as though he were an …

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Racist remarks in leaked audio of L.A. council members spark outrage, disgust
2 years, 2 months ago

Racist remarks in leaked audio of L.A. council members spark outrage, disgust

LA Times  

L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez, shown in 2019, made racist comments in a 2021 meeting, according to a recording reviewed by The Times. Martinez and the other Latino leaders present during the taped conversation were seemingly unaware they were being recorded as Martinez said a white councilmember handled his young Black son as though he were an “accessory” and …

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