Police were in a standoff Thursday morning with a man who reportedly assaulted multiple people and then made his way onto a ledge on the 11th floor of a downtown Long Beach office building.<\/p>\n
A bystander said the situation began when a man tried to rob DoLy\u2019s Delectables, which is on the ground floor of a building at Broadway and Long Beach Boulevard. Preliminary reports from police indicated the man was suspected of assaulting at least two people.<\/p>\n
Jason Cottrell was walking into DoLy\u2019s for his morning coffee around 11 a.m. when he found the workers fleeing, their eyes stinging from pepper spray, he said.<\/p>\n
The workers told police the man showed them a knife and demanded money, but one of the workers pepper-sprayed him, according to Cottrell.<\/p>\n
The suspect made his way up into the building, where he could be seen holding onto a fire escape on the 11th floor.<\/p>\n
Police called in extra officers to shut down the street and radioed for an airbag to try to break the man\u2019s fall if he jumped or tipped over the edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were in a standoff Thursday morning with a man who reportedly assaulted multiple people and then made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-100088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}