LAPD serves search warrants in City Hall racism leak investigation; protesters again disrupt council meeting
One of the search warrants "has been initiated to Reddit in order to identify the person responsible for posting the recording," the LAPD said in a statement, referring to the popular social media website.
It remains unknown who recorded the year-old, racism-filled conversation that took place at the offices of the L.A. County Federation of Labor, and who leaked it -- triggering a series of events that led Martinez to step down as City Council president and then quit the council altogether, and de León and Cedillo to face relentless calls for them to resign as well.
Krekorian ordered the protesters to be removed from the council chambers. The demonstrators are angry that De León and Gil Cedillo have not resigned despite widespread calls for them to do so. Among other comments in the recorded conversation, Martinez belittled Councilman Mike Bonin, who is white and has a Black son, and criticized the child for his behavior at a Martin Luther King Day parade -- saying Bonin's son was misbehaving on a float, which might have tipped over if she and the other women on the float didn't step in to "parent this kid."
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