Darth Vader watches man use force, smash LAPD windows in Hollywood
It took all of Hollywood’s crime fighters to stop a man Tuesday as he broke the windows of four LAPD patrol cars.
Wielding a metal rod, the man smashed all the windows except the windshields of four cruisers near Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue around 1 p.m., said LAPD Officer Bruce Borihanh.
Raw video of the incident, shot by a KTLA photographer working in the area, shows someone dressed as Darth Vader holding a light saber and pointing at passersby as the man swings the rod into the window of a car behind him. It shows some people staring as they walk past the car.
The oblivious Vader stops and looks on as the man pulls a laptop from the car and takes it to a kiosk, where he opens it. Then the super-villain walks away from the scene. Perhaps the force was too strong with that one?
The video later shows the man on the ground surrounded by police with someone in a Superman costume standing nearby. He was arrested without incident, Borihanh said.
No other information about the suspect or his motive was available, he said.
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