Two council members — Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo — are facing calls to resign by nearly all of their colleagues, the council is functioning under an acting president after Nury Martinez resigned…
resigned and the next two meetings will be conducted remotely after a COVID-19 exposure. Multiple protests during this week in the Council Chamber led to Friday’s meeting being canceled.
“With the possibility that there will be more positive cases, out of an abundance of caution we will hold both Tuesday and Wednesday’s meetings virtually, as we did for over a year during the height of the pandemic,” O’Farrell said in a statement. O’Farrell has been in touch with Cedillo but has not been able to reach de León since Tuesday, according to Halden.
Protests were expected again in the Council Chamber again Tuesday if de León and Cedillo did not resign by then and the council met in-person. De León and Cedillo, who attempted to attend Tuesday’s meeting but were asked to leave the chamber after protesters voiced objections to their presence, would be able to attend the virtual meetings without facing the public face-to-face. Their attendance would “not be appropriate, no matter the format in which we are meeting,” Halden said.
“You always know that there’s anti-Black racism all around you,” Harris-Dawson said. “You don’t realize that there’s anti-Black sentiment sitting right next to you. So I think it’s going to be a while before we get to the stage where there can be regular interaction.”Rep. Judy Chu, D-Monterey Park, told CNS before the announcement that Tuesday and Wednesday’s meetings would be virtual that the council “can’t have an actual, calm meeting unless these two resign.
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