LOS ANGELES — Nury Martinez resigned her seat on the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday, days after the release of an explosive leaked audio of a racist, crude conversation.
“It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council District 6, the community I grew up in and my home,” Martinez wrote in a tweet.
The move came amid mounting pressures from all corners of politics, from President Joe Biden to many community activists and council colleagues.
