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Protests prevent planned Los Angeles City Council meeting

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Protesters inside Los Angeles City Hall were not going to let councilmembers continue with their scheduled meeting — not unless council members resigned who were part of a conversation that was racist against the city's Black and Oaxacan communities.

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