Mr. Block entered the building with his daughter, who is a minor, around 10 p.m. and immediately began shouting, employees said. He yelled that he wanted a picture taken of himself and his daughter in front of the “Shame on the Blocks!” sign and demanded that it be published on the front page of the next day’s paper, Marianne Mizera, a digital editor, wrote on the union website.

Ms. Mizera wrote that she was watching as he “forcefully grabbed” his daughter’s arm to pull her into the picture.

“She was crying, shaking and pleading with her father that she did NOT want to be in ANY photograph,” Ms. Mizera wrote.

Carl Remensky, who works on the sports desk, wrote that he had also seen Mr. Block trying to pull his daughter in front of the bulletin board for a photo as she cried and yelled.

Andrew Goldstein, a night police reporter, wrote that, at another point, Mr. Block was “screaming in his daughter’s face about the Block family legacy,” saying: “‘Do you want to be high class or low class? You’re a Block, you’re one of us! You have to learn how to lead!’”