Overview
- The Metropolitan Police Department responded Friday after reports of a person on top of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C.
- Police are treating the incident as a barricade situation, and northbound lanes across the bridge are blocked to traffic as negotiators work to resolve it.
- DC Fire and EMS are assisting at the active scene, according to the city’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
- Video posted by local journalist Ford Fischer shows the climber scaling an arch and unfurling a black banner, with a claimed May Day protest against the Iran War that officials have not confirmed.
- The bridge spans the Anacostia River between Southwest and Southeast Washington and features a 168-foot arch, which poses serious risk to anyone who climbs it.