A 20-year-old man equipped with large suction cups, who police said wanted to talk to Donald Trump, scaled Trump Tower for hours on Wednesday before authorities pulled him back inside the building. NYC cops were alerted to the man, who is from Virginia around 3:40pm, but it wasn’t until 6:30pm that they were able to grab him despite his attempts to try and get away.
Responders blew out at least two windows from the Trump Tower and deployed airbags on the ground just in case the climber fell. The man was brought out of the building on a stretcher, and was loaded into an ambulance and taken to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. “What he explained to us is that he wanted a personal meeting with Mr. Trump,” said Bill Aubry, chief of Manhattan detectives.
The 20-year-old also posted a video to Youtube on Tuesday. In the Video, titled “Message to Mr. Trump (why I climbed your tower),” the man called himself “an independent researcher seeking a private audience with to discuss an important matter.” He also encouraged viewers to “help make this video go viral so that it gets to Mt. Trump, and be sure to get out and vote for Mr. Trump in the 2016 election.” According to detective Aubry the climber never expressed that he wanted to hurt anybody. His only intent was to meet Mr. Trump. unfortunately for him Mr. Trump was more than 500 miles away from New York City at a rally in Abingdon, Virginia.
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