Yo, who would do this?
Some vandal (or vandals) literally drove around Downtown LA on Saturday night and just started chopping down trees for no apparent reason. The LA Times notes that it's Earth Day tomorrow, and possibly somebody wanted to do some ecoterrorism ahead of that, though we can't be sure this is true.
According to [a] Reddit user ... every tree between 1st Street and Wilshire Boulevard was cut down. However, a review of photos suggests a few remain standing.
Photos from Instagram show downed trees at the intersections of Olympic Boulevard and Hope Street, Olympic Boulevard and Figueroa Street, and Broadway and Cesar Chavez Avenue.
It was Easter weekend, so LA's Urban Forestry Division didn't answer calls from the media. LAPD also didn't have any answers for the media. Apparently someone can cut down trees in the middle of America's second-largest city without a single cop noticing.
The absolute state of Los Angeles!
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