He referred to himself as an "independent researcher" seeking a private meeting with Mr Trump to discuss an unspecified matter. In a video that was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday (local time), a man dressed in a hooded sweatshirt discusses climbing the tower in a message addressed to Mr Trump. Over the following hour, police appeared to try various ways of coaxing the man inside, first by throwing a rope in his direction and then by opening a large grate directly above his position. Reports of the climber first surfaced on Twitter and social media around 4:00pm (6:00am AEST). NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 19-year-old Donald Trump supporter who climbed 21 floors of Trump Tower in New York last August using suction cups and a harness, pleaded guilty on Monday to reckless. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options await you. The New York Police Department said on Twitter that the department's special operations division and emergency crews had responded at Trump Tower's address to the man climbing the building. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. Live television footage showed uniformed officers reaching out and grabbing the young man around three hours after he started his ascent. Man Climbs Trump Tower in New York City A man started to climb the Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan around 3:40 p.m. Police also placed an inflatable landing pad on East 56th street between Madison and Fifth avenues. New York police shut down several streets surrounding the building in one of the city's busiest neighbourhoods, while officers climbed to a section of the building above the man. The man, wearing shorts, a black shirt and a backpack, was climbing the tower's glass exterior, above an outdoor terrace around five storeys off the ground, according to reporters at the scene. "The climber has been taken into custody," a police spokesman tweeted. PHOTOS: Celebrity Injuries A man scales the all-glass face of. The 58-storey building in midtown Manhattan is headquarters for the election campaign of Donald Trump, the US Republican presidential nominee. A man started scaling Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, August 10, using a contraption made out of suction cups. Aug/ 9:52 PM / CBS Baltimore NEW YORK (AP) A man who wanted an 'audience' with Donald Trump spent three hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower on Wednesday using large. A man has been captured by police after he scaled the side of Trump Tower in New York City with what looked like suction cups and a climbing harness, drawing hundreds of onlookers.
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