The bottom shakes periodically in Southern California, however Los Angeles has not often skilled a political earthquake as sudden and extreme because the one which rocked Metropolis Corridor this week. The discharge of a secret recording of high Latino officers making racially disparaging remarks has claimed the careers of a minimum of two of town’s strongest public figures and turned a highlight on the surprisingly tribal nature of political energy within the Democrat-dominated Metropolis of Angels.
The leaked October 2021 recording, revealed first on Reddit after which by the Los Angeles Instances, captures a surprisingly candid dialog amongst Metropolis Council President Nury Martinez and Councilmen Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León. Ron Herrera, Los Angeles County’s high union chief, was additionally current. The 4 met to debate how they may carve up town’s voting districts to take care of Latino political energy. Few of the hyperdiverse metropolis’s racial and ethnic teams went uninsulted.
