He claimed the group \"cornered and physically assaulted me, a staff member, and a volunteer during a holiday event on Friday evening.\"
He said Reedy and other members of the group started shouting obscenities and disrupting the holiday event, prompting him to attempt to exit the event to \"draw the disrupters away from the attending families and children,\" but the activists blocked all the exit doors.
\"Once we were able to push open a door and try to get out, Reedy launched a pelvic thrust, followed by a headbutt to my forehead,\" de León alleged. \"My response, in defense of myself, was to push him off of me. In the ensuing struggle, Reedy struck me in the face with a closed fist, violently elbowed a female staff member, and injured a volunteer in front of horrified parents and children.\"
Earlier Friday, chaos ensued at a city council meeting when de León showed up for the first time since becoming embroiled in the scandal over the closed-door meeting in October 2021 he attended with then-City Council President Nury Martinez and a third Latino member of the city council, Gil Cedillo. In the recording of the meeting, leaked earlier this year, Martinez allegedly made racist comments about her colleagues and the Black son of white councilmember Mike Bonin while discussing redistricting to hold onto their power.
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PHOTO: FILE - LA City Councilmember Kevin De Leon, speaks at an event in Los Angeles, April 14, 2018.
During Friday's council meeting, community members in attendance booed de León's presence and Bonin abruptly stood up and stormed out of the meeting. The uproar caused a recess to be called and de León did not return to the meeting.
De León said he attempted to attend the meeting to represent his constituents.
\"I remained out of the room after the outburst by agitators to give the council president the opportunity to regain control of the meeting and allow public comment to continue since so many of those present were my constituents,\" de León said. \"Unfortunately, neither of those things happened.\"
But de León's departure did not curtail the raucous meeting. Instead, outgoing City Councilmember Paul Koretz used his farewell speech to take a parting shot at protesters, saying they \"have done their best to make it difficult for us to do our work in the last 2½ years.\"
\"In their own words: I yield the rest of my time. F*** you,\" Koretz said.
De León is also purportedly heard making racially charged comments on the tape recording about Bonin's son and calls for him and Cedillo to resign have grown louder in recent weeks. Martinez resigned from the city council in October and apologized for her comments.
De León and Cedillo have refused to step down from the council despite calls from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Joe Biden for them to do so.
On Oct. 26, the city council voted 12-0 to publicly reprimand the three councilmembers.
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