Police chase robbery suspect to roof
A robbery suspect, later identified as a suspected violator of a protection order, stands on roof of 24 Taps Burgers and Brews on Riverside Avenue and and refuses to surrender Wednesday, July 15, 2020. He eventually surrendered and was brought down to ground level with a fire department “tower” truck.
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Christopher Smith, 28, a robbery suspect who was wanted for violation of a protection order, scrambles up the fire escape ladder on the Genesee Building on Riverside Avenue as police, left, encourage him to surrender. Smith had climbed the neighboring building, the site of 24 Taps Burgers and Brews, as he fled the police. He eventually surrendered
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A robbery suspect, later identified as a suspected violator of a protection order, stands on roof of 24 Taps Burgers and Brews on Riverside Avenue and and refuses to surrender, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. He eventually surrendered and was brought down to ground level with a fire department “tower” truck.
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A robbery suspect, later identified as a suspected violator of a protection order, stands on roof of 24 Taps Burgers and Brews on Riverside Avenue and and refuses to surrender as police surround the building, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. He eventually surrendered and was brought down to ground level with a fire department bucket truck. The young suspect was identified by officers on scene as Chris Smith, 20.
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A robbery suspect, later identified as a suspected violator of a protection order, stands on the top of the Genesee building on Riverside Avenue and ponders his choices as police, left, encourage him to surrender. He eventually surrendered by climbing back down the side. He was brought down to ground level with a fire department “tower” truck.
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A robbery suspect, later identified as a suspected violator of a protection order, stands on fire escape platform on the Genesee building on Riverside Avenue and ponders his choices as police, left, encourage him to surrender. He eventually surrendered by climbing back up the Genesee building, then down the side. He was brought down to ground level with a fire department “tower” truck.
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A police dog, which followed the handler up a fire department ladder truck, gingerly comes back down the ladder after the suspect on top of the 24 Burgers and Brews restaurant, at the corner of Lincoln Street and Riverside Avenue, was taken into custody, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. The suspect, in both a robbery and a protection order violation, climbed the restaurant and refused come down until Spokane Police officers used the ladder truck to get to the roof.
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A robbery suspect, also a suspected violator of a protection order, Chris Smith, 28, second from left in the bucket on a Spokane Fire ladder truck, is brought down from the top of the 24 Taps Burgers and Brews restaurant where he had climbed when police began to chase him, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Smith eventually surrendered after police climbed fire department ladders and was brought down to ground level with a fire department “tower” truck.
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