Los Angeles City Council President Resigns After Leaked Racist Audio

Nury Martinez stepped down from the presidency but still remains on the city council, amid calls for her removal.

Nury Martinez, Los Angeles' city council president, stepped down from that post on Monday after a firestorm around a slew of racist comments she made in leaked audio. She's facing a growing chorus of calls to leave her city council seat entirely.

The resignation comes after the Los Angeles Times published the audio of Martinez making racist remarks about Mexican Angelenos and the Black son of a White colleague. 

While speaking to other city leaders in a private meeting, she described the colleague's Black son as behaving "like a monkey."