BREAKING: Nearly half of the LA City Council called for council members Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo to be censured for taking part in a racist conversation aimed at Councilman Mike Bonin's 2-year-old Black adopted son.
Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin addressed a large crowd gathered inside of Los Angeles City Council chambers on Tuesday, emotionally calling for the resignation of his counterparts who targeted his son in a series of racist comments leaked to the public over the weekend.
During his emotionally charged speech, Bonin said that the comments made by Martinez cut into his soul. "These people stabbed us and shot us and cut the spirit of Los Angeles. It gave the beatdown to the heart and the soul of the city. But before anything else in the world, I'm a dad who loves his son in ways that words cannot capture. And I take a lot of hits, and I practically invite a bunch of them. But my son? Man, that makes my soul bleed and it makes by temper burn."
"My first instinct as a father was to implore them, don't run the story, or at least be vague," he said."I didn't want to see the specifics in print. I didn't want him to have to hear them or read them some day."
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