SOUTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Paramedics had to call police Monday morning to help them with a patient who they say assaulted an EMT.
The incident happened at 8:13 a.m. at 5th and Mercy streets in South Philadelphia.
The medic was cut on the arm and was spat on.
The patient fled police and went up onto a nearby roof where he was finally taken into custody.
The injuries to the paramedic were said to be minor.
EMT attacked by patient in South Philadelphia

The suspect is restrained as firefighters lower him from a roof on the 500 block of Mercy Street.
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