4 arrested in vandalized downtown Los Angeles skyscraper 

They so focus on people painting an abandoned building yet they arent able to catch people out here looting on broad day light

The bigger crime is we have a housing crisis and we let buildings like this sit empty for years.

the owners arent even pressing charges. They should just stop arresting these people.

They’re worried about this rather than theft ..what a joke

It's not how many people you "arrest" it's how many do you convict and put away. Thanks Gascon for nothing.

I'm so happy we have "Catch & Release" in California. Let's vote for more in 2024 ;-)

Imagine making a stink about drawing on some abandoned garbage.

If only they had this much energy to arrest looters and actual criminals.

But actual crimes being ignored smdh

Ignore the graffiti just how you ignore the thousands of people down the street on skid row suffering from mental illnesses and homeless

Got to be impressed with the determination/planning/teamwork/recon that went into this operation. Well done...it wasn't a some 'spur-of-the-moment' idea from smoking to much weed. And who fronted the money for the equipment/paint ? Hmmmmm. The city and LE should be more interested in holding these scam developers accountable for 'walking-away' from their unfinished 'projects'.

Worrying about graffiti when the real story is abandoned buildings not being used when there's a housing crisis

How are the developers going to afford security if they ran out of money 🤣🤣

4 arrested and *released while 100's fled

Judge should make them repaint the building.

Tagging is like a dog pissing on a fire hydrant.

All those cops and helicopters for just 4 arrests???

LAPD focused on this 1 building but basically ignore the rest of the city. What a waste of time.

What a lovely California Utopia story!

This “resident” is extremely SYMBOLIC of the problem. He doesn’t want anyone to get hurt as the “risk there their lives” as if on some altruistic mission.

This dude really cares about the safety of a random person?

Detained, arrested and released without bail. That will stop them. LOL

How come the City doesn't focus on removing graffiti off of public property and are instead throwing all of these cops on a private development? Oh that's right, they are only moving because these buildings are an eyesore now and the City is being humiliated at what has happened.

Give them cleaning supplies

Even though a felony, it’s a cite out ticket in LA County. Book and release per the new LA Superior Court bail schedule.

Why worry about taggers on a abandoned building? Especially if it's a foreign developer? Just let them tag that place as oppose to other occupied places!

2:19 how is he still in office?

risking your life to do something so childish lol

Oh that's OK. No worries! Every last one of these "Artists" will walk out of custody free men within the hour. All thanks to the no-bail policies of the Los Angeles DA!

Those four arrested should clean up the mess they made. Same for their parents. Hold them accountable.

Big deal! The fact that this happened on this level shows you how broken our system is and how useless Mayor Bass is.

Nothing is considered a crime any more. The police just allow everything. Cited and released to do it again 😔

Concerned for criminals safety while committing the crime?? Crazy!

Arrested and released without bail

George Gascon was later seen having dinner with the criminals that night

DeLeon needs to be arrested for that 6th st bridge project...

LAPD started caring because Gavin Newsome started caring.

I noticed that even the parking meter next to the reporter had been tagged 🤣. Arresting and detaining the 'taggers' is a joke because everyone knows that they will be bonded-out or released on OR with few, if any charges ever actually being prosecuted. Might as well arrest 'jaywalkers' . . . oh wait, guess 'jaywalking' is now legal in California-NTM.

A little scary up there

0:42 - " TrAspassing"?

Why don't they arrest the person who built this vacant monster of a building for leaving it vacant and unfinished!

No bail no jail now they’re trying to pass it on to the owners. Time to vote them out.

This is not "art." It's vandalism. Call it was it is.

1:28 She ran out of breath :D

Yes this is the "crime" the police should focus on. The bigger crime is leaving an unfinished building.

Looks like a godless and awful place to live. When people think they are doing a good thing by spray painting a building you know there's something wrong the average citizen LOL

That's a good way to use the police resource that we don't have.. Let's not worry about the open borders or fentanyl or human trafficking.. We worried about a closed painted building " They could get hurt"😅 worried about their safety. Trust they're more safe on that building than they are on the streets of LA

You continuing to report on this is why they keep doing it! Can’t cure stupid in California that’s for sure.

They’re not graffiti artists because they’re vandalism.

The city should just take the building away from the developers (who are not developing anything) and give it free of charge to another developer who will finish construction.

People smoke meth on the streets of downtown in the open and i don't see the same concern by the public or media

Allegedly

in custody,, I don't think so. they arrest and release. no time for crime in LA

It's thoer safety, they don't need your worry.

They didn’t have any money to keep it going why would they pay for security? 😂

it's funny that people and police are talking about a abandoned place filled in graffiti completely even tho there's far more abandoned places (even very beautiful ones) covered completely in graffiti but no one is talking about this. No one is also talking about people writing on active trains, trucks etc

Welcome to dystopia.

society is crumbling, stop trying to distract us with news about some art crime

no one should care about the taggers safety going up and down on an abandoned building! as for the irresponsible foreign owners, the city should pass and enforce a law to take over the title of the land and building then resell the property at huge profit!

This is so stupid, what a waste

Ol girl using her phone

Oh come on. Ppl are robbing small businesses left and right and you arrest people for this!?!?

Let the state take over fix it and let homeless live there for free😊

Whatcha in for? For expressing my art on a building I can show you my work you got a phone?

around the clock LAPD security, they catch 4 for trespassing😂 Del Leon gonna send a bill to the bankrupt developers to pay 😂

OMG the graffiti makes LA looks trashy.... slightly more trashy than before.

Let’s fucus on the rent problem why the real Californians can’t afford to live in Los Angeles…?

Learn to pronounce the word "trespass". It's not "trAspass".

Chinese developer went belly-up, but at least he hired Chinese architects and engineers. The buildings aren't sinking like those new ones in San Francisco. Millennium Towers (the leaning towers of San Francisco).

We need robocop at this point 😅

This is funny LA is drenched in graffiti top to bottom east to west south to north whats the big deal!? 🤷🏽‍♂️

Smh😂

graffiti is art....

Why was a Chinese consortium building shtty condos in LA to begin with ? I thought only Trump did that stuff and went bankrupt ?

Wtf!!?? Cali is horrible these days! Sadly...this is the norm!

I suppose it gives them a sense of fulfillment otherwise they wouldn't be up there. I hope social workers help prevent this sort of behavior for the following generations.

A Chinese building. And this is what our police are assigned to. Let these graffiti goons travel the ledges a their own risk for awhile. The entire city is a mess anyway and nobody's looking at THAT.

It's a shame since the building looked so beautiful sitting there half-finished, shuttered, and decaying for the better part of a decade. I'm glad the city could give foreign billionaires (who were a billion short) free security on taxpayer money.

Beautiful art.

Love this, LA needs to embrace it's artists and leave this forever, and then let the homeless get housing in these abandoned homes that could change lives.

Now you see why i am a socialist and against capitalism.