A man is trying to scale the all-glass face of Trump Tower in New York City using suction cups.
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Special operations officers could be seen grabbing the unidentified climber into an opened window on the building’s 21st floor Wednesday evening.
In a video that was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, a man discusses climbing the tower in a message addressed to Trump. Police say he was taken to a hospital to be psychologically evaluated.
“We were able to break a window and establish some type of dialogue and we then secured three jumper air bags and numerous amounts of equipment for a high-angle rescue job”, Manhattan South police commander William Morris told reporters after the incident. Officers wrestled him inside the window while he resisted.
The man arrived in New York Wednesday from Virginia and had been staying in a local hotel, police said.
The 58-story building is headquarters for the election campaign of Donald Trump, the U.S. Republican presidential nominee.
A Trump campaign spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Finally, he reached a point where capture was inevitable, and two officers grabbed him and pulled him inside head-first, his legs hanging outside the building for a few minutes before disappearing inside. “I’m 100 percent certain the NYPD had better things to do”.
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Helicopters circled and airbags were deployed underneath the man, The Daily Beast reported, but the climber, who began his ascent around 4 p.m. EST, soldiered on with only the power of suction keeping him from plummeting off the building.
