$32-million settlement approved in child abuse death of 10-year-old Anthony Avalos. Kelly Muniz said the LAPD had not received a call from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor asking detectives to investigate the recording. Union calls leak of racist recordings “illegal,” but police haven’t been asked to find culprit. power broker named in the Nury Martinez audio? Yet relatively unexamined in the scandal that’s enveloped city politics are the brief references to Danny Bakewell, a high-profile leader among Black Angelenos, real estate developer and the executive publisher and owner of the Los Angeles Sentinel, the long-running Black newspaper. The other two councilmembers caught on tape with her, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo, have inexplicably and unacceptably refused to do the same. He replaces Nury Martinez, who stepped down last week after we all heard her noxious comments. On Tuesday, 10 councilmembers managed to come together long enough to select Councilmember Paul Krekorian as their next president. So, as you might imagine, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately following the evolving, or maybe devolving, mess at Los Angeles City Hall.įor those who haven’t heard, three members of the Los Angeles City Council were caught on tape making racist remarks and plotting how to use the city’s redistricting process to hoard political power for Latinos at the expense of Black Angelenos. I spend my days - and sometimes nights - offering up hot takes on local and state politics, as well as social and racial justice issues. Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter.
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