A woman seen climbing and dancing on top of one of the arches of the 6th Street Bridge that spans the Los Angeles River was arrested Thursday morning.
Greg Fox, 58, was walking home after playing basketball at the Boyle Heights Sports Center and Park when he noticed a woman climbing an arch on the 6th Street Bridge. Fox was across the street and began filming the woman, who he said walked back and forth on the arch for 25 minutes. The video shows her talking to herself, covering her face in distress and dancing.
“She was there dancing around and not acting right,” he said. “I thought she was going to jump [off the bridge]but then she sat down and then got up again and was up there for a very long time, waving her hands around.”
Los Angeles police arrived at the scene at 11:53 a.m. and took the person, a woman in her mid-20s, into custody two minutes later, LAPD spokesman Tony Im said. The woman’s name was not released.
The woman began making her way down the archway as soon as police arrived and was happy to go with the police, Fox said.
I told the woman to get medical attention.
“It was kind of sad, but I see this all the time,” said Fox, who lived on the street in Skid Row for about a year. “I want to expose how horrible it is down here, how much people are in need of mental health care.”
Fox now lives in a hotel with single rooms. SROs are designed to serve an estimated 4,400 people who live on the streets or in shelters in Skid Row.