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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.

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Guatemala finds over 1,000 artifacts at Americans' home

Prosecutors in Guatemala say they have found 1,222 possible archeological artefacts at the home of an American couple accused of smuggling historical relics

The Independent UK

Prosecutors search home of Americans charged in Guatemala

Prosecutors in Guatemala say they have found more possible pre-Hispanic artifacts during a search of the home of an American couple facing charges of smuggling historical relics

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Guatemala expat community roiled by relic smuggling charges

Two Americans, one a photographer and the other a connoisseur of Mayan folk art, are facing charges of smuggling pre-Hispanic artifacts in Guatemala

The Independent UK

Nicholas Goldberg: Jeering, screaming and upending the LA City Council is arrogant, irresponsible and ineffective

I shouldn’t have to say this, but it is presumptuous and irresponsible to disrupt and obstruct the Los Angeles City Council in an effort to get your way.

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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

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The Los Angeles City Council censures members involved in racist conversation

The vote to censure the former council president and two current councilmen is the strongest step the council can take to reprimand them for taking part in a recorded meeting laced bigoted comments.

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LA City Council censures de León, Cedillo, Martinez after police clear out demonstrators

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to censure three current and former council members for their part in an incendiary conversation that contained racist remarks.

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Texas tumbles further in voting access, report finds

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LA City Council censures de León, Cedillo, Martinez after police remove demonstrators

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to censure Council members Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León, as well as former Council member Nury Martinez, for racist and incendiary comments made on a leaked recording.

Los Angeles Times

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

The Independent UK

Amid noisy protest, the LA City Council — listening via earbud — conducts its business

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council held its first in-person meeting in nearly two weeks on Tuesday, plowing through its agenda and taking more than 90 minutes of phone-in public comment while demonstrators shouted, chanted and jeered from the audience.

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

LA City Council president will not excuse Kevin de León's council absences

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian had harsh words Monday for his colleague Kevin de León, telling the embattled council member in a letter that his continued presence on the legislative body was "causing actual ongoing harm" to the practical operation of the council.

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Leaked racist audio recording could push LA City Hall further left in Nov. 8 election

LOS ANGELES — Dissatisfaction with Los Angeles City Hall has been simmering for years, with residents growing exasperated over the protracted homelessness crisis, anxious over crime and exhausted by a string of corruption indictments targeting various city leaders.

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…

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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.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: De Leon embodied the American dream. After racist audio leak, he's living a political nightmare

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Back when he led the state Senate, currently disgraced Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León acknowledged growing up with "a chip on my shoulder," thinking "I wasn't good enough, maybe."

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Gustavo Arellano: Kevin de León says he's sorry but won't resign. Kevin, stop gaslighting LA

After a week and a half of silence, Kevin de León emerged Wednesday afternoon to let the world know he is really, truly, honestly sorry for what he said, and didn't say, on the racist recording that has rocked Los Angeles.

The Independent UK

LA councilman's future uncertain amid racism scandal

The troubled Los Angeles City Council appears headed into a long power struggle, as two disgraced councilmen resist widespread calls for their resignation amid a racism scandal and state investigation

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Resign already, Councilmembers Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo

How much longer will Los Angeles City Councilmembers Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo try to hang on to their jobs?

Axios

L.A. City Council's Kevin de León says he won't resign

"I’m so sorry," the councilman said.

Politico

LA Council member de León says he won't resign in first interviews since release of leaked recording ignited scandal

Kevin de León has faced widespread calls for his resignation, including from President Joe Biden.

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

Paul Krekorian voted in as new LA City Council president

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council selected Council member Paul Krekorian as its next leader Tuesday afternoon, with the 10 members present voting unanimously for him to take over the council presidency.

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