R4 tackle through opposite building

Saxton stomped down hard. His heel pushed through the floor, and all around him cracks and cervices webbed outward from one side of the roof to the other. That was enough to knock Animal Man off balance for a tenth, a sixtieth of a second, some small timeframe that wasn't enough for a panicked heartbeat. It was, in fact, just barely enough time to throw a killer uppercut right into a jaw, and Animal Man was lifted six feet in the air. When he came back down again Saxton tackled him straight off the building.

Ideally, he would tackle him through the building the alley over, but things never turned out how Hale wanted. How was he supposed to know Animal Man could fall UP?

   * FLIGHT (peregrine falcon)

What was the point of that, just to drop him from a height?