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LAPD widens investigation into source of racist City Hall leak

LOS ANGELES — Information obtained by Los Angeles police from search warrants served on Twitter and Reddit has led detectives to additional investigative avenues as they work to uncover who recorded a meeting between three L.A. City Council members and a labor leader that was filled with racist and offensive…

Los Angeles Times

LA Council again struggles with fallout from racism scandal

The Los Angeles City Council is struggling with a still-unfolding racism scandal that left behind a dilemma about how to deal with a disgraced member who has resisted calls from President Joe Biden to step down

The Independent UK

Racist audio leak raises a tough question: Why don't Latinos vote more in LA?

LOS ANGELES — Florentina Serna has waited more than three decades to cast a ballot. She still can't. When election day comes around and she sees the propositions and candidates and knows she can't do a thing to help change her hometown, she feels powerless.

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Scandal-plagued LA City Council deeply unpopular; voters have faith in Bass, poll finds

LOS ANGELES — If the last week was any indication, Mayor Karen Bass starts her tenure with the wind at her back.

Los Angeles Times

Racism scandal prompts another day of protests in LA council

The Los Angeles City Council was disrupted by another round of noisy protests after a councilman facing widespread calls to resign for his involvement in a racism scandal defiantly returned to the chamber

The Independent UK

Fallout from LA racism scandal keeps shaking City Council

Two months after being entangled in a racism scandal that shook public trust in Los Angeles government, disgraced City Councilman Kevin de Leon has refused calls to resign and is trying to rehabilitate his reputation

The Independent UK

A low for LA politics: Council member and activist fight as children watch in horror

LOS ANGELES — On Friday evening, more than 100 children and their parents were gathered at Lincoln Park for a tree-lighting celebration.

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‘Little kids were starting to cry’: Inside the Kevin de León fight at Christmas gift giveaway

LOS ANGELES — The fight between embattled Councilman Kevin de León and an activist Friday night has heightened the simmering tensions in Los Angeles politics over the leak of racist audio that has rocked City Hall.

Los Angeles Times

Chaos erupts after Kevin de León shows up at his first LA City Council meeting since October

LOS ANGELES — Council member Kevin de León showed up in Los Angeles City Council chamber Friday morning, appearing briefly at a council meeting for the first time since fallout from a racist leaked audio tape roiled the city in mid-October.

Los Angeles Times

LAPD serves search warrants in investigation of who recorded racist City Hall leak

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police detectives have served several search warrants as they attempt to find out who recorded a meeting among three L.A. City Council members and a powerful labor leader filled with racist and offensive comments, law enforcement sources told The Times on Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

Kevin de Leon refuses to resign from the LA City Council. What happens to his constituents?

LOS ANGELES — 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.

Los Angeles Times

‘Pay’ for an endorsement? LA's Democratic clubs under scrutiny this election

LOS ANGELES — For newcomers running for office in Los Angeles, support from some of the city’s many political clubs can provide an essential boost, with the groups calling prospective voters or hosting meet-and-greet events with the candidates.

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles’ rising Latina leader on the fallout from leaked racist tapes: ‘They took us back decades’

Eunisses Hernandez, an incoming council member, is grappling with what it means to gain power in an unequal system

The Guardian - US

Organizers launch bid to recall beleaguered LA City Council member Kevin de Leon

LOS ANGELES — Amid widespread calls for the beleaguered politician’s resignation, five constituents filed initial paperwork Thursday to recall Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de Leon.

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The Independent UK

LAPD launches probe after politicians heard in racist recording complain about leak

Nury Martinez resigned seat after calling colleague’s Black son a ‘monkey’ in recording

Los Angeles Times

LAPD launches criminal probe into leak of City Council members' racist recordings at request of Martinez, de León, Cedillo

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore announced Tuesday that his department had launched an investigation into the source of the leaked racist recordings that thrust L.A. City Hall into a harsh national spotlight.

Los Angeles Times

California Gov. Newsom calls on LA City Councilmen de León and Cedillo to resign over racist audio leak

LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday said L.A. City Councilmembers Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo should follow Nury Martinez in resigning from their positions, two weeks after a leaked audio recording of the three participating in a racist closed-door conversation about council colleagues and the city’s…

Los Angeles Times

Roots of LA City Council's leaked audio scandal can be traced back decades

LOS ANGELES — In simple terms, the scandal that has sent Los Angeles politics into a tailspin began with a surreptitiously recorded private meeting last year involving three City Council members during which crude, racist comments were made.

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'How do you say that about a 2-year-old?' Amid scandal, parents reckon with the politics of shame

LOS ANGELES — From her 2013 election upset to her resignation last week, disgraced former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez put motherhood at the heart of her political career.

Los Angeles Times

'No, I will not resign': LA City Councilman Kevin de León defends himself in TV interview

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de León said in a television interview airing Wednesday night that he "will not resign," according to a partial transcript of the interview released by Noticiero Univision.

Los Angeles Times

Union calls leak of racist recordings illegal, but LAPD has not been asked to find culprit

LOS ANGELES — Even though Los Angeles labor officials have called the leak of racist recordings involving three L.A. City councilmembers a serious crime, the Los Angeles Police Department is not investigating who recorded and posted the clips because no one has filed a police report.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: In the hands of politicians, redistricting can be poisonous. The cure is an independent commission

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The hateful, racist conversation secretly recorded among Los Angeles City Council members illustrates a reality: Self-interest redistricting brings out the worst in politicians.

Los Angeles Times

Erika D. Smith: 'I'm a Black woman, not a pawn.' The forgotten victim of LA's racist tape scandal

Heather Hutt, a longtime political staffer turned interim Los Angeles City Council member, was already disgusted listening to three colleagues and a prominent labor leader use racist language to justify their plot to hoard political power for Latinos.

Los Angeles Times

Racist audio leak has ‘tainted’ LA's redistricting maps. Now some want them scrapped

LOS ANGELES — For nearly a week, activists and elected officials have demanded the ouster of three Los Angeles City Council members, calling it the only acceptable response to secretly recorded audio of them engaged in a conversation with racist and derogatory language.

Los Angeles Times

Gil Cedillo, a champion for immigrant rights, imperiled by racist leak scandal

LOS ANGELES — When four Latino leaders held a meeting to discuss Los Angeles' City Council boundaries last year, one in the group acted at points as the political elder in the room, a now-infamous audio recording revealed.

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