The City of Los Angeles - I'm Always Your Child

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The conversation is a little over an hour long and what's pretty unnerving about it is that it really cycles in and out from terrible racist comments. The thing I think that people have had perhaps the most visceral reaction to in the city was the deeply racist way that then city council president Nuri Martinez talked about a white council members young black son. By the time people and I'm just like oh my god I'm always your child.

Leaked audio revealed elected officials, including City Council President Nury Martinez, making xenophobic, homophobic, and racist statements about their colleagues and constituents. The city has united in fury.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.

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