Amid noisy protest, the L.A. City Council — listening via earbud — conducts its business

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The Los Angeles City Council held its first in-person meeting in nearly two weeks on Tuesday, plowing through its agenda and taking more than 90 minutes of phone-in public comment while demonstrators shouted, chanted and jeered from the audience.

The sounds of nonstop protest were deafening inside the council chamber, where audience members repeated their call for the ouster of Councilmen Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León, making it all but impossible to hear either the council members or the phone-in testimony.

But for those watching the meeting remotely, technology provided a much different experience: Viewers of YouTube could clearly hear both the call-in testimony and comments from council members, punctuated occasionally by the din in the background.

Council members put in earbuds so they could hear their colleagues and the call-in testimony inside the chamber. They scheduled an April 4 special election to replace former Councilmember Nury Martinez, who stepped down after The Times reported on racist and derogatory remarks she made during a secretly recorded conversation with Cedillo, De León and Ron Herrera, then the top official at the county Federation of Labor.

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