President Joe Biden join the group of officials calling for three Los Angeles City Councilors who took part in a racially charged conversation to resign, according to the White House press secretary Oct. 11.
“I spoke to him about it yesterday [Oct. 10],” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a White House briefing. “The president is glad to see one of the participants in that conversation has resigned, but they all should. He believes that they all should resign.
“The language that was used and tolerated during that conversation was unacceptable,” she said. “It was appalling. They should all step down.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks to reporters in Washington on Sept. 6, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
After a torrent of criticisms from politicians and community groups, Nury Martinez resigned as the council’s president on Oct. 10 after audio recordings of her “racist” conversation last year with three other local officials—Councilmen Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera—were leaked over the weekend….