THIS is the moment a man was captured on video lobbing roof tiles from a six-storey building.
Tiles were hurled off the roof of a block of flats at the corner of Cambridge Road and Lansdowne Road in Hove on Sunday afternoon.
The stand-off went on for more than three hours, with a police negotiator trying to talk the man down.
He “refused to engage with officers and began throwing items from the roof towards them”.
One of these tiles hit an officer.
The man, 27, from Hove, is said to have got down in exchange for a cigarette.
He was arrested without incident and taken into custody, where he remained yesterday.
He has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker.
One witness told The Argus he shouted a “vocal list of prisons he thinks he may be taken to”.
He can be heard saying “f*** you” before shouting “take me to Wandsworth, High Down” which are two prisons in the South East.
It was claimed that one of the tiles smashed a window at a nearby flat.
The witness added: “He did come down on his own on the agreement of a cigarette. If only it had been sooner.”
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