A man has been taken into custody after climbing up San Francisco's tallest skyscraper in the city's Financial District, Salesforce Tower.
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Located at 415 Mission St., the 60-floor tower was under observation by the San Francisco Fire Department and other public safety agencies until mid-morning.
In a video posted to Twitter, the man quickly reached the 35th floor, wearing gloves while scaling up the side of the building.
According to the San Francisco Police Department, the man is Maison Des Champs, 22, of Las Vegas.
When Des Champs reached the top of the building at around 10:50 a.m., he was arrested by officers.
He has been charged with trespassing and resisting arrest, according to SFPD spokesperson Officer Robert Rueca.
"The climber's motive is still under investigation," Rueca wrote in an emailed statement to KCBS Radio. "Vehicular and pedestrian traffic in the area has been restored."
DesChamps, who identified himself on his Instagram page as the "Pro Life Spider-Man," posted video of his climb. He wrote in his caption that he was aiming to raise money to "financially support abortion-minded women to prevent them from having abortions." Climbing Salesforce Tower a day after a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicated the high court could overturn Roe v. Wade, he wrote that he wanted a Washington doctor jailed, claiming he "murdered babies" in illegal late-term abortions,
That doctor, Cesare Santagenlo, is the abortion doctor at the Washington-Surgi Clinic. An anti-abortion group said last month that five fetuses found in a member's home they claimed were performed late in pregnancy in violation of federal law.
WUSA found that Santangelo has practiced medicine in D.C. for more than two decades with no disciplinary issues, and the Metropolitan Police Department's executive assistant chief of police, Ashan Benedict, told reporters in March that the fetuses appeared to have been aborted "in accordance with D.C. law."
Des Champs was arrested last August in Las Vegas on charges of trespassing not amounting to burglary and disorderly conduct after climbing the 600-foot tall Aria hotel in what he said was in protest of Nevada's indoor mask mandate for counties with high or substantial COVID-19 transmission. The Clark County District Attorney's office opted not to charge DesChamps last October, according to court records.
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