{"id":379663,"date":"2026-06-29T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379663\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:51:08","slug":"man-arrested-after-allegedly-throwing-concrete-chunks-at-lapd-from-high-rise-building-in-downtown-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379663\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after allegedly throwing concrete chunks at LAPD from high-rise building in downtown L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man was arrested Monday morning after allegedly throwing chunks of concrete at police from a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a report of victim in need of medical assistance at 2:30 a.m. on South Broadway, according to the LAPD. The person was hospitalized for unknown reasons. <\/p>\n<p>Police then observed a man throwing concrete from the roof of a nearby building at their vehicles and arrested him, according to the LAPD. He was not identified by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival, officers identified the suspect with the assistance of an airship overhead,\u201d LAPD Sgt. Jesus Salazar told <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/transient-on-roof-of-l-a-building-in-custody-after-throwing-concrete-chunks-at-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KTLA<\/a>. \u201cThey contained the area, made the approach, and took the suspect into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salazar said the man also threw a fire extinguisher from the 10th floor of a high-rise building. He said some squad cars were damaged, but no officers were injured. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a dangerous [situation], so it was paramount for us to contain the scene,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the scene showed broken chunks of concrete on the street. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Monday morning after allegedly throwing chunks of concrete at police from a high-rise building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6577,142791,8901,153536,153538,48,52,51,5015,47,50,49,63,1555,153537,7589,2322,236,2489,2131,2601],"class_list":["post-379663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-authority","tag-concrete-chunk","tag-custody","tag-high-rise-building","tag-jesus-salazar","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-man","tag-medical-assistance","tag-need","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-scene","tag-suspect","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379663","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=379663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}