A man set out for a stroll hundreds of feet above the East River on Sunday after scaling the top of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Yaroslav Kolchin began from the Brooklyn side of the bridge, climbing a support beam and walking toward the top. He managed to take some photos before police directed him down and arrested him, Reuters reported.
NYPD dispatched several teams of officers and a helicopter to guide the pedestrian from his perch at 276 feet. Kolchin now faces charges including criminal trespass and reckless endangerment.
The incident came only two weeks after two German artists were discovered to have planted white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge.
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So a guy with a backpack (who knows what was in it) walking down from the top of a major bridge in New York City gets what looks like “nicely” arrested, but a black teen in #Ferguson walking in the middle of the street is gunned down and killed.
WTF is up with police?
These incidents would not be happening at the Brooklyn Bridge if Obama would project strength.
so because of what happened in Ferguson, we should want police to only hostile-ly arrest people? What happened in Ferguson is a real tragedy, so if in the wake of that other police forces in other cities don’t engage in such criminal and devastating actions, I don’t think we should be asking “why not?!”
Because freedom.
Good taste in bridges. My personal favorite here in NYC. He’ll pay a fine, so it’s almost like an expensive amusement park ride.