Police shattered the window of the Marc Fisher showroom to reach Rogata and negotiate with him as he climbed.
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The 20-year-old man who scaled New York’s Trump Tower using only suction cups on Wednesday, only identified at this time as “Steve from Virginia”, appears to be a Trump voter. Stephen began his journey around 3:30 p.m. yesterday, and used climbing ropes and suction cups to scale the 68-story building where the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, lives and works.
After three hours of unsuccessfully trying to block his path, by cutting out openings from air conditioning vents and knocking out windows, NYPD Emergency Service Unit officers grabbed him at the 21st floor.
Either way, police charged the man Thursday with reckless endangerment and criminal trespass in the freaky stunt.
“I am an independent researcher seeking a private audience with you to discuss an important matter”.
Another look at the Trump Tower suction cup climber in Five Ten shoes.
“Believe me, if my objective was not significant I would not risk my life pursuing it”, Rogata said.
A police spokeswoman says officers responded to Donald Trump’s namesake skyscraper on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan but had no further information.
A notebook filled with handwritten notes and references to a YouTube video entitled, “Message to Mr. Trump (why I climbed your tower)” was recovered by police. Officers are lowering themselves toward him using a window washer’s platform.
Trump was on his presidential campaign tour in Virginia.
“Believe me, if my goal was not significant, I would not risk my life pursuing it”, Steve said in his video.
“The reason I climbed your Tower was to get your attention”, he says in a monotone. Much of the event was broadcast live on Facebook.
Michael Cohen, an executive at the Trump Organization, called it “a ridiculous and risky stunt”.
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“I would like to wish #BizarroJarpad the best of luck in climbing the Trump Tower”, Padalecki, 34, quipped in a tweet on Wednesday after he got wind of his look-alike.
