Wesson Resigns As Ridley-Thomas’s Interim City Council Replacement

Herb Wesson attends the official unveiling of City Of Los Angeles's Obama Boulevard in honor of the 44th President of the United States of America in Los Angeles, Calif., on May 04, 2019. Leon Bennett/Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson has resigned as the interim replacement for indicted Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, three days after a judge issued a preliminary injunction continuing to bar him from performing any official duties.

Wesson, in a letter Aug. 25 to the city council obtained by the Los Angeles Times, said he was grateful to have been appointed to represent the 10th District and argued that residents of the district which stretches from Koreatown to Leimert Park in South Los Angeles deserve “a voting voice.”