A vote to punish the mayor of Richmond has failed over his alleged anti-Semitic social media posts.
After the attempt failed Tuesday night during the city’s council meeting, Richmond Vice Mayor Cesar Zepeda called to add a last-minute agenda item to vote on a resolution to censure Mayor Eduardo Martinez for what he posted online.
Last month, the mayor shared posts on social media that appeared to be anti-Semitic, with the posts specifically calling a mass shooting at a Jewish festival in Australia a false flag.
The mayor has since deleted those posts and apologized.
The proposed resolution wasn’t asking the mayor to resign, even though that’s what some people want.
Instead, the resolution asked the mayor to take a number of actions, including collaboration with Jewish community leaders to affirm his opposition to antisemitism, 16 hours of antisemitism training by the end of March and a deferral of some of his salary to a non-profit focused on brining the community together.
NBC Bay Area’s Bob Redell has more in the video above.
