{"id":276033,"date":"2025-10-04T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276033\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:10:10","slug":"la-city-hall-evacuated-after-car-crashes-into-buildings-steps-and-the-driver-is-in-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/276033\/","title":{"rendered":"LA City Hall evacuated after car crashes into building&#8217;s steps and the driver is in police custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Los Angeles\u2019s City Hall was evacuated after a car crashed into the steps of the building on Friday afternoon and the driver was later taken into police custody, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>About two hours after the crash, the driver could be seen getting out of the car and walking with his arms raised toward a line of police and fire vehicles. He was then handcuffed.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of injuries, according to police. LA Mayor Karen Bass said in a post on the social platform X that the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad had arrived at the crash site, though she also said the situation had been \u201csafely resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She previously said City Hall was being evacuated \u201cout of an abundance of caution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to reports just after 4 p.m. about a traffic collision, according to Charles Miller, a spokesperson for the LAPD. They then worked to make contact with the driver. The circumstances that led up to the crash were not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Video taken from news helicopters soon after the crash shows the driver in the front seat and a cardboard sign in the window that reads, \u201cI need ur help\u201d and makes a reference to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to all of the brave first responders who safely resolved this situation with compassion and urgency,\u201d Bass said on X.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Law enforcement responds after a car crashed into Los Angeles...\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433.125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759543810_414_image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement responds after a car crashed into Los Angeles City Hall on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. Credit: AP\/Jaimie Ding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Los Angeles\u2019s City Hall was evacuated after a car crashed into the steps of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[51353,1582,276,2961,224,5337,10190],"class_list":{"0":"post-276033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ap-a-wire","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115313470579770450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}