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0:41Now PlayingLos Angeles official Nury Martinez resigns after racist remarks | USA TODAY
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0:41Now PlayingLos Angeles official Nury Martinez has resigned after leaked audio revealed her spewing racist remarks about a fellow council member's Black son.
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The president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned Monday after audio leaked of her racist remarks about a colleague's child and Oaxacan immigrants in the city. Nury Martinez apologized and resigned "effective immediately" in a statement reported by the Los Angeles Times.
The audio, posted anonymously on Reddit and reported by the Times on Sunday, includes Martinez saying a white council member “handled his young Black son as though he were an accessory" and describing the colleague's son in Spanish as “like a monkey.” Martinez also reportedly called the colleague, councilmember Mike Bonin, an expletive, according to the audio shared by the Times, and discussed the child's behavior during a parade, allegedly saying his parents are "raising him like a little white kid."
"I was like, this kid needs a beatdown," Martinez reportedly said. "Let me take him around the corner and then I'll bring him back." Martinez also reportedly referred to Oaxacan immigrants living in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles as “little short dark people.”
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