City workers paint downtown L.A.’s 2nd Street Tunnel white; vandals spray-paint it again within hours

Less than a day after city workers painted an iconic tunnel in downtown Los Angeles white, vandals tagged it again.

Footage posted on Instagram by @grafftv1 – described as “the leading source of Los Angeles graffiti culture” — shows the aftermath of the “full-force takeover” at the 2nd Street Tunnel on Wednesday.

“What had been a clean slate at noon became by midnight a living gallery of street expression, filled with burners, rollers and painted signatures from L.A.’s most well-known vandals,” the Instagram post reads. “The message from the streets is clear: paint [the tunnel] white, and Los Angeles will paint it back.”…

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