A man in his 20s who identified himself as a #BlackLivesMatter protester, had been hanging off a 16th-floor balcony of Trump tower in Chicago since around 5:30pm Sunday.

According to the Dailymail’s reports, he was threatening to cut his rope unless he could speak to the president.

A video surfacing online shows the man, who had an Eastern European accent, saying “he didn’t want to die but would cut the rope with a knife if he couldn’t speak with the president.” 

However, he has been taken into custody after 13 hours. The Chicago Police Department confirmed this shortly before 7am local time that the situation had been ‘resolved peacefully’ by on-site negotiators and no injuries were sustained.

“He had been requesting to speak directly with the president and to get his message to the media” CPD spokesman Tom Ahern said. 

“CPD, SWAT, and CFD personnel responded to the call of an unknown male threatening suicide and dangling from a rope on the 16th-floor balcony of a residential building/hotel,” He added.

The man had threatened to kill himself during the stand-off with police, the department said. SWAT team negotiators spent hours on the deck trying to get the man down overnight.  

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From the statement of the police, Gistflash gathered that charges are yet to be filed.

However, the real identity of the man is yet to be revealed. Though he was escorted from the scene in an ambulance, he is currently undergoing a psychological evaluation.