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Man attempts to scale New York's Trump Tower with suction cups
Police said they had no immediate information about the person’s identity or his motive for scaling the glass skyscraper.
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A MAN HAS attempted scaling Trump Tower in New York using suction cups and prompting a police response outside the Manhattan headquarters of the Republican nominee for president.
“We are sending our units there to try to find out what’s going on,” a New York police spokesman told AFP.
Television footage broadcast by ABC News showed the shaggy-haired man dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, apparently using suction cups to mount his ascent.
A video clip and pictures posted on Twitter showed him climbing up the outside face of the tower as uniformed officers looked on.
Police said they had no immediate information about the person’s identity or his motive for scaling the glass skyscraper. They were alerted by the incident at around 3:40 pm (8.40pm here), the spokesman said.
New York billionaire and real estate developer Donald Trump lives in a marble triplex at the top of the 68-storey building, which is also the headquarters of his Trump Organization and election campaign.
The Republican nominee is outside the city today, holding a rally in Virginia with another event planned later in Florida.
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