Yu cited a recent electrocution death in Westlake and told Nichols: LAPD Officer Stephen Nichols told George Yu, the unhinged megalomaniac leader of the reprehensible Chinatown Business Improvement District, that if Yu gave him a list of affected lights he would personally deal with the unauthorized wiring.
As revealed by this newly obtained email conversation, in March 2019 this was happening regularly in Chinatown. Although the City of Los Angeles could very, very easily put electrical outlets on streetlights they refuse to do so, which leads to the dangerous but necessary practice of makeshift rewiring by unhoused people. Homeless people need cell phones to survive, and charging them is a perennial problem.
