An unidentified man was finally apprehended by New York City police Wednesday evening after he spent most of the afternoon scaling Trump Tower using nothing but suction cups.
UPDATE: After 3 hours, police snatch the man climbing up Trump Tower, pulling him inside. https://t.co/vi87GA7Bvrpic.twitter.com/FSmN7Y9ejN
— NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) August 10, 2016
Donald Trump wasn’t at Trump Tower when this was taking place however a video since the guys arrest has emerged perhaps providing a motive as to why he decided to take on this stunt. Apparently he wanted to get Trump’s attention and ‘speak’ with him.
Aside from the perceived motives, the guy was pretty allusive. Police looked to busted out a few different windows and cut through a ventilation screen in an effort to take the climber into custody.
Update: The NYPD broke a window to reach the climber outside Trump Tower https://t.co/tY0uY3VJ0p pic.twitter.com/GOvjF1PwaK
— Gothamist (@Gothamist) August 10, 2016
The climber was also apparently throwing out a number of items from his bag including a MacBook computer, water bottles and held up a spiral notebook to one of the windows before discarding that as well.
At this point it’s unclear what was on the notebook.
Obviously though after police talk to this guy you have to think authorities are going to have to rethink the security situation at Trump Tower considering the GOP Presidential nominee not only works there but lives there as well.