Dylan Spoelstra from earlier in October (Lawrence Schwartzwald/Splashnews)
An Occupy Wall Street protester who scaled a 40-foot-high (12.2-meter-high) steel art exhibit in Lower Manhattan early Saturday was brought down by cops at 9:13 a.m. He was taken to Bellevue for a psychiatric evaluation.
Earlier, he had said he would not come down until Mayor Michael Bloomberg has resigned, FOX News Channel reported.
The man is believed to be Dylan Spoelstra from Toronto. Hostage negotiators were talking to him more than two hours after he climbed the orange exhibit at the entrance to the group’s Zuccotti Park base.
Police and emergency medical service units were also on standby while the street was shut down, WABC reported.
Though maintaining a home base at Zuccotti Park downtown, protesters have taken their movement to points throughout the city, including Washington Square Park, City Hall and a tour of uptown buildings where some of the city’s richest businesspeople live.