Sixty trees that were planted in St. Paul along the Mississippi River have been ripped out of the ground, leaving behind holes in the dirt adjacent to Sheppard Road. WCCO's Al Schoch reports from St. Paul near the Wabasha Bridge where only holes in the ground remain.
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00:00There is the Wabasha Street Bridge and traffic on Shepard Road and you can see
00:07right here this is where the trees used to be. All we have now are clumps of dirt
00:14in circles to show us where those trees had been and they were somehow ripped
00:23out. Some of them thrown into the river. Here's the Mississippi and there's
00:27Raspberry Island and if you take a look at these trees they were planted last
00:33month right around NBA weekend and here's one of them it's still here.
00:41These are really in tight really in packed in tight so whoever did this had
00:50some kind of operation maybe more than one person to uproot these trees and
00:56throw some of them into the river.