‘Pro-Life Spiderman’ Slings Conspiracy Web Climbing Salesforce Tower

Let’s hope that the upcoming Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse doesn’t embrace each rendition of the wall-crawler, particularly not at present’s California selection.

A person filmed himself climbing the 60-story Salesforce Tower in downtown San Francisco Tuesday morning as he shouted anti-abortion conspiracy theories to the metropolis skyline and to hundreds of viewers on instagram.

The San Francisco Fire Department tweeted an image of the would-be web-slinger, who goes by “Pro-Life Spiderman” on Instagram. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that pedestrians noticed the free climber shortly after 9 a.m. The hearth division additionally confirmed that the climber was scaling the constructing early within the day and informed folks to keep away from the world, lest they be crushed by a falling physique. The climber, who’s alive however whose id is unknown, was arrested and taken into police custody round two hours later, in accordance with the Chronicle. Police haven’t but revealed the climber’s title, and it’s unclear if he’s charged with against the law.

The climber took video from the facet of the tower the place he mumbled conspiracies about baby-murdering abortion suppliers in Washington, D.C. If you’re simply searching for a scenic view of that foggy metropolis’s skyline, it is best to mute the video. If you could have any sense of acrophobia (or conspira-phobia) then it’s in all probability greatest to keep away from a watch. The tower is marketed because the tallest constructing west of the Mississippi River, measuring round 1,070 toes from the bottom.

Salesforce didn’t reply to a request for remark concerning the stunt at its SF workplace. The firm has beforehand supplied Texas workers relocation help after the state handed its restrictive anti-abortion legislation in September, 2021.

The stunt got here only a day after a leaked opinion draft of a possible repeal of Roe V. Wade ended up in Politico’s hands. The opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, led to overnight protests outdoors the Supreme Court constructing in Washington. In the day after the information dropped, the opinion was ripped aside by abortion rights activists and some politicians for what they stated was an assault not simply on abortion, however an open door to assault other rights conferred by the court, such as gay marriage. Those on the anti-abortion facet largely praised the draft decision.

Salesforce has not supplied remark concerning the leaked Supreme Court doc and what it means for its workers if states use a Roe V. Wade repeal to immediately ban abortions in their state.