"Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price was taken to a hospital by paramedics on Wednesday after fainting during a Black History Month event at City Hall. Price, 75, was taken by ambulance at Los Angeles General Medical Center, where he was in stable condition, Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson said. Price is "in stable condition, is in recovery and doing well," Harris-Dawson told the audience at Wednesday's council meeting."
"The incident took place on the third floor bridge linking City Hall and City Hall East, which is currently displaying an exhibit of prominent Black women community leaders, according to Price spokesperson Angelina Valencia-Dumarot. Price spoke at a ceremony celebrating the exhibit, which had scores of attendees, before feeling faint and needing to lean on one of his aides for help, she said. It was not the first such medical incident to involve Price at a public event."
Curren Price, 75, fainted during a Black History Month event at City Hall and was taken by ambulance to Los Angeles General Medical Center, where he remained in stable condition. Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson said Price was in recovery and would not attend council that day. The fainting occurred on the third-floor bridge connecting City Hall and City Hall East during a ceremony for an exhibit of prominent Black women community leaders; Price leaned on an aide after feeling faint. A spokesperson said Price was receiving care and that his wife and family were with him. The incident followed a judge's ruling allowing a corruption case against Price to proceed to trial; Price faces charges including embezzlement, perjury and conflict of interest.
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