Taggers strike another vacant Los Angeles building

Yet another under-construction building in Los Angeles has been covered in graffiti. Taggers were spotted spray painting a building in the 600 block of North Ardmore Avenue late Tuesday and early Wednesday, according to stringer service Key News Network.
Video shows at least two men, one masked and one barefaced, vandalizing the top full floor of the six-story structure, which is encased in scaffolding and consists of little more than a wooden frame and plywood. Every other level also had been tagged.
KTLA's Chris Wolfe reports on March 20, 2023.
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[@BlastinRope]

people who don't face consequences are unphased? say it aint so! I am shocked

[@JReagor-ke4hk]

Some buildings in Los Angeles got spray painted, what a newsworthy suprise

[@2riel]

Right? Whoop di do

[@tmotz]

It is... Bcz there are thousands of homeless in a corrupt LA., yet vacant apartment blocks (tax evasion) and vacant foreign owner skyscrapers (washing money via negative gearing assets). They company isn't filling those skyscrapers or apartment blocks any time soon, and the graffiti artists are probably doing it as a political statement .. Yet y'all missed the subtext bcz you know graffiti is bad. But so is wealth hoarding when people are living and dying on the streets of LA with councils and govt not doing a goshdarn thing because politicians (or anyone who ever studied real finance/accounting and tax law) know the loop holes, use them and thus will never change the laws to stop people from benefiting from giant empty buildings when people are fighting for a warm piece of the sidewalk and healthcare.

[@firehorse6332]

Those 2 gals are so cringe & the first to scream victim if their property is vandalized. 100% 🤮🤮

[@TheWatcher818]

Cuzz they aren’t clutching pearls?😂

[@firehorse6332]

@@TheWatcher818 cuz they're hypocrites. They'd be pissed if their property was disrespected & expect justice but this is acceptable. Nasty.

[@Volksoner619]

People that call things cringe are cringe. 🤡

[@chenzog6657]

Trash

[@stevenf5902]

Calm down Karen

[@stevenf5902]

Get over it…. Nobody cares about some wood panels that will get covered up during construction anyways

[@IComeFromSimbobwe]

what im saing

[@DingDong-gn7hj]

I dont care about people tagging on abandoned buildings. Stop some real crime. Only the rich people complain about this BS. I'm more worried about real crimes.

[@mystroceo]

Pay attention to the youth. They are without accountability & guidance. Completely careless. The 2 females justifying this lets me know that the future is not looking good for humanity. She claims to do art and it doesn't bother her. Shes probably one of the ones doing it or is has people she knows who are a part of it. Theres nothing artsy about tagging your name.

[@Liberalcali]

Would she like her house graffiti

[@IComeFromSimbobwe]

tough man. whine about it. this building just gonna become another normal building. graffiti lives

[@tourhead]

Hey KTLA 5. Every time you show the tags on tv the taggers win. Don't you get it yet? They're expecting you to show their tags to the whole world on TV and online. KTLA is helping.

[@sbsk2526]

Is the graffiti’s still on the buildings in DTLA? I thought the city said they planned to clean it up if the owner didn’t meet their past deadline. More lies from the city?

[@Leafylover]

Yes

[@selectiveapathy]

Tagging is still there. Drove by there 10 minutes ago 😂

[@DustinBBaker1906]

La should build designed walls for the artist throughout the city.

[@cardellstewart5588]

@DustinBBaker1906 NEGITIVE ON THE WALLS, THE FREAKING CITY LOOKS BAD ENOUGH

[@1fault]

@@cardellstewart5588 🤓

[@MrPeterbs]

What a great life achievement: tagger. It's all downhill after that.

[@LuisMartinez-pd1bl]

Those taggers vote for Biden for sure

[@Liberalcali]

They don’t vote trust

[@aaap3875]

4 floors made from 2x4 plywood wtf. This is cheap flimsy construction.

[@ICallItAsItIs]

Yep, and I'm sure these units are going to cost like at least $3000 a month. I used to live in a 6 floor wooden frame apartment and you pretty much hear everything!!! People slamming doors, neighbor blasting the radio or TV, neighbor above walking like bigfoot, etc.!

[@LighterShadeOfFoo1997]

@Alextheone4uwhat an offer 😃😃

[@ilovealaska2000]

Its vandalism, Not art

[@angelicasoup638]

👍👍👍

[@Seabass3920]

agreed

[@1fault]

🤓

[@Dumbmoviereviews]

Hey Genius. Your only promoting the buildings for taggers to go visit

[@Markhope-e3z]

The downfall of Western society.

[@1fault]

Racist nerd 🤓

[@GreaserCentral]

I much rather see that than gang graffity. Taggers find abandoned locations. Gang members tag anything, even if is not abandoned

[@streamofconsciousness5826]

Just letting the City know where all the potential affordable housing is. Any abandoned building, especially a high rise should be confiscated and utilized. Why leave it empty until they tear it down in a few decades. You can't half build a car and leave it on the road for years. Not even weeks in most places.

[@lawrencesmith835]

That is what I was saying. The taggers advertised the affordable housing . They found it but City Hall can't connect the dots or don't want to

[@SFV_Aurora]

Tired of vacant buildings. People just letting them built equity instead of them creating work and businesses for communities. How about we talk about that. There’s a street full of empty buildings on Laurel Canyon by Victory.

[@minicova]

More color to it❤🎨. Well done Graffiti Artist!!! Fresh L.A.

[@El_Jefe_De_Jefess]

Focus on the homeless crisis

[@Itzmilktv]

Ain’t no homeless crisis, it’s just a bunch of Drug addicts

[@taxfree4603]

Taggers are a big problem as well.

[@stevegonzales527]

They already have help out there, no amount of money will fix the homeless “crisis”. They refuse to follow curfews and rules to get the help.

[@LCx829]

Lost cause

[@yungjunkie666]

@@taxfree4603 not as big as biden voters are to the country

[@9663mu]

Welcome to Gavin Newsomes world. The new California. Zero consequences

[@1fault]

🤓

[@randomshit65]

💀💀😭😭😭yall are making this news!?!?!

[@danasmith858]

Vandals, not taggers , but maybe you were trying to spell something else with that last word? Would have been more accurate. Whom would actually build anything in this neighborhood?

[@brentfisk4549]

Fits right in with the flaming landfill that LA, and pretty much CA has become 😂😅

[@ariyaa2961]

So what was this abandoned building supposed to be? All this tells me is that there are a bunch of empty building that could be used to solve our housing crisis.

[@mkvp3794]

This isn't an abandoned building. It's an unfinished building and is a worksite hence the machinery still being on site. People tag it up when the workers aren't there

[@jperezlgk]

Oh how foolish ppl are lol dont complain when you start paying higher taxes for all the clean up

[@Davett53]

It is getting worse,...last summer graffiti was showing up on sidewalks, & on streets. We were especially upset to see spray paint on trees, and boulders, in some of the lesser parks.

[@podcastfan2544]

Its vandalism but on plywood in frame stage that will be covered up so this is ia nothing burger of a story. The take away is that it shows the quality of life in a greater sense evolving or devolving

[@2riel]

“Armed with spray paint” interesting verbiage

[@bobbykimble6358]

Third world state where anything goes

[@shipwreck8847]

I thought the taggers were going to start tagging the reporter as he was covering the story.

[@lit8027]

Armed with spray paint 😅

[@Liberalcali]

Those women say they like it as long as it’s not on their building what losers

[@saucymack]

The problem is our convicted counsel members, that are going to the joint financed this crap. I saw police posted up around these buildings. Perhaps folks should keep their children home.

[@AllenHanPR]

Girl: I dont mind it, I actually like it. *girls car gets graffitied* Girl: YO WTF! These people need to be stopped.

[@ty5967]

It's so warm and loving, part of LA culture.

[@user-zl1fz4qm3f]

the next Binxey?

[@donaldsandoval7069]

so why are they crying ? this is gonna get covered up with stucco later, if anything taggers are wasting their material just to get covered buffed

[@andreslopez293]

Thanks to these guys they keep my rent low.

[@LifesLessons100]

You wont even see that in 3 days lol

[@kendalgee5808]

The problem is you have chemicals all over the plywood now. Oil based paint, vinyl, acrylic, etc. It needs to be replaced. They have to install drywall over that plywood. The paint and chemicals are unknown. There could be lead in the paint or etc. Eventually families will live there. This is not an abandoned building. The investors have to pay 50k to replace this now.

[@1fault]

Theres no lead in the paint man

[@kendalgee5808]

@@1fault Ur missed my point. u cant prime & paint over graffiti & rent it out under code. Jerk.

[@1fault]

I will keep writing on buildings

[@lj197847]

Very inconsiderate comments by those two women.

[@a.a.a.8365]

And no one can figure it 0ut. 😒 These taggers are being paid by someone to tag those buildings.

[@KOVIDGOON]

George Soros

[@arizonaandrew]

By who lololol you’re so clueless it’s bizarre lol

[@yungjunkie666]

If you not doing anything with it then stop complaining might as well let them some actually look cool unlike the buildings you've designed no gang tags no problems

[@leonardogranic-flores1860]

or use that money to fix the drug and homeless problem lol

[@taxfree4603]

Tagging doesn't look cool. Grow up

[@stevegonzales527]

@@leonardogranic-flores1860no amount of money will fix drug addiction and alcohol abuse. There’s plenty help for them and refuse to live under curfews and rules

[@lovethieves1383]

The media loves to use the word "vacant" building instead of the politically correct term "poor investments made by wealthy foreign nationals that planned on using public funding, tax subsidies, money laundering, charge overpriced rent, enforce the bare minimal housing requirements that are prison requirement, and sit on until they can get a healthy return to do 1031 tax deferred exchange to never pay taxes and expect the public to protect - all tax free"

[@LCx829]

That's not art

[@missbell247]

Continue harboring criminals…. 🤷🏿‍♀️🤦🏿‍♀️.

[@1fault]

🤓

[@Crismodin]

Ohh, warning signs? How scary.

[@Tiggitytye]

they are literally primering the wood instead of just untreated plywood, lol.

[@kendalgee5808]

For liability, the owners have to replace the plywood now. You can't have unkown paint/chemicals all over your project where families will soon live.

[@Tiggitytye]

@@kendalgee5808 unknown? It's Krylon, lol

[@Leo-V]

Their tags look like crap. Atleast do something nice

[@timothya.olmeda7299]

And the media keeps promoting the tagging efforts with exposure.

[@cryptomarxist]

Lol, city should fix homelessness and corruption instead of worrying about "fangerous"... paint? lol!

[@anthonygonzalez7313]

Don't like graffiti, don't come to Los Angeles 🎉

[@katantoinette5008]

To live & die in LA ❤

[@patrickmccarthy6798]

I found it humorous that when the reporter talked about possible injuries, they were displaying an ad from Jacoby and Meyers, injury attorneys. Maybe that law firm hands out paint cans in hopes of getting new clients who fall from these unsecured and obviously unsafe buildings.

[@Vision_Elite]

graffiti its allright with me just as long as these individuals dont vandelize homes and buisneses.

[@blazed1945]

Whether you like it or not its been around since the beginning of time its a fringe sub culture that will be here forever

[@anthonyacuna8604]

Fr lames in the comments acting like they never seen graffiti before

[@angelicasoup638]

CAUGHT IN THE ACT/AIR.

[@joemama99]

harsher laws and hold parents liable for minors. boom no more crime.

[@Fabiobryan1994]

Dang East Hollywood is on the news daily

[@hectorp86]

Doing the lords work against yt and chinese developers responsible for gentrification

[@Robgeee]

Good Ol LA ✊

[@Itslittt8]

They should graffiti their own houses but bet they won’t

[@johnpeter4184]

Just about every abandoned town or a desert point of intrest in the S/W has been tagged.

[@tmotz]

Miss the political statement all together.. What about the vacant buildings and foreign owned vacant towers. Umm. Eventually the people will protest.. Yall paying attention, but to the wrong part of this story. Rip to all the homeless people

[@KOVIDGOON]

The news be snitchin😅

[@nuttincowboy9430]

It's under the stucco!

[@KOVIDGOON]

The chemical in the paint may hinder sealing n binding to materials.

[@shayan4040]

Grown men without jobs, living with enabling mothers.

[@angelicasoup638]

That’s evident

[@sherylchapman4168]

At least they could do a Banksy. Why not a mural?

[@IComeFromSimbobwe]

murals are for the sellouts, graffiti artists stay raw

[@izzyn4315]

Lmao there’s another tagged building on 8th and Hoover This is the new thing to do I guess 🤦🏽‍♀️ if only parents knew how to educate and raise positive adults 💔

[@franciscoponce7981]

how about focusing on the bums and homeless issue, besides a 1mm color on a wall LA

[@Wrath6909]

“armed with spray paint” 🤣

[@bogdanivchenko3723]

hire security

[@EnglandChatz]

My man merchant in the background!!!!

[@knoWVarrioSfC]

Josh Easton is SiRen Hard to Stop he said it HTSF

[@unknOwN-nv9nu]

Rather do graffiti then get jobs. Annoying.

[@edmorse3529]

Typical criminals!!! ENFORCE THE LAW!!!

[@haroldbranch7971]

no time for crime.. thugs having fun at business owners expense.. no worries, it's LA..cite and release capital

[@Sl20]

Well !!!!!what are we waiting my grandpa might say !!!!! 3:09 🔴🫢🤫

[@LtGreaseMonkey06]

Well if they would finish construction and not leave it so easily accessible then we wouldnt have this problem. Also shouldnt we be focused on the homelss crisis and not on this. America got they priorities backwards

[@samuelg3586]

Just part of LA culture 😂

[@commanderbell1965]

At least they not squatters

[@udontknowmeman]

Great Art

[@knoWVarrioSfC]

Yrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr If we the people cant have it then nobody can .. Boo Hoo KAREN BASS .

[@saucymack]

Nice ears.

[@samuelg3586]

It needed a fresh paint job

[@ftwmotivation]

Propaganda

[@XANAXGOD805]

GRAFF WONT DIE

[@johngee6197]

Why is this bearly making the news haave u seen dtla and hollywood lmao

[@airron5019]

A zoomer kid exploring a construction site is way more healthy than doom scrolling the phone for hours at a time. That's some real "danger".

[@davidstock2713]

Sentence should be judge manatory in-deterninate community service, in-determinate nominal hours community service, until all there supposed artistry is removed. If it takes entire spring/summer 2024 within hot sun, guiidlines met within 2, 10-min breaks, un-paid, no hours deducted, 30-minute lunch break. No jail sentence, thats costs city/state fubdung, also not effective within lesson learned from jail vacation. They if use whats up-stairs/brain, well learn worthyness, if niot there are plenty 6-month spring/sumrrers time durations , at judges discretion. Fall/winter season fully within judge discretion, rain gear provided example. If smart, alsi timing on there side since it's officially sping season, complete this prior to fall season. Winter season with judge rain gear providence, wont be fun times.

[@eddieg6436]

Hispanic youth! 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@myjourney1011]

China Evergrande bankruptcy dominos effect around LA and new York

[@tobiasmanuelitoe9145]

my bombing doesnt kill children!

[@RockyChomps]

the next keith haring ya'll, we just don't realize it yet. lol

[@AllenMcElroy]

That’s LA culture

[@nicomor352]

Too much gta online

[@Suckmyleftone]

Lmao this been happening on construction buildings way before the towers

[@Lateestandthegreatest]

La so ghetto

[@1fault]

Based