I feel bad for the cop who used the Taser. He must have known the risk, even though the electricity wasn't static.
Posted on 07/10/2017 5:48:22 PM PDT by Gamecock
ARLINGTON, TEXAS A suicidal man who had doused himself in gasoline became engulfed in flames at an Arlington home Monday after an officer used a stun gun him, police said.
The officer who used the Taser on the man believed that the man was holding a lighter in his hand and was about to use it, police spokeswoman Sgt. VaNessa Harrison said at a news conference.
Harrison acknowledged the risk of using an electrical stun gun near gasoline, but said the man was “very frantic and erratic and became a danger to everyone in the room.”
“We realize that a Taser can have some other implications, but we also know he had something in his hand,” Harrison said. “It’s unclear at this moment whether he became engulfed in flames from the gasoline and ignitable object he had in his hand or from the Taser.”
The man was taken to a hospital. His condition was unknown.
Three police officers were also taken to a hospital for smoke inhalation. Their injuries were not life threatening, Harrison said.
Police were called to the home in the 1600 block of Carla Avenue about noon, where two women reported that a mentally ill man was attempting suicide.
The man had doused himself in gasoline and was threatening suicide, Harrison said. Officers arrived, got the women out of the home and began talking to the man.
While officers tried to calm the man down, Harrison said, he poured more gasoline on himself and was believed to be holding a lighter in one hand.
An officer used a Taser on the man “to subdue him,” Harrison said, but the man became engulfed in flames. Officers wrapped the man in a blanket to put out the fire and got the man outside the home.
Here, need a light?
Build a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
Shocking!
It was for his own safety...don’t ya know.
If the man survives, he will stand to collect a small fortune. If he dies, his family will do so.
If the man survives, he will stand to collect a small fortune. If he dies, his family will do so.
Comeback Of The Week, right there, I don’t care who ya are. LOL!
I feel bad for the cop who used the Taser. He must have known the risk, even though the electricity wasn't static.
Agree. This is going to cost.
he was endangering others in the room..OK so lets turn him into a bomb fire and burn down the house
Subdued him all right he did. Subdued him right into the ER.
Too bad they couldn’t hit him with a fire extinguisher instead. Right in the puss with the dry chemical.
STOP, DROP, AND FLOP around like a fish on fire
Tarrant County? I don't think so. If it had been Plano, they probably would have just shot him.
I'm always polite to the Plano cops.
Fight fire with fire.
Shoulda used a bow & arrow (flaming tip optional)
/s
Another case closed for the Arlington suicide prevention squad.
That reminds me of Sledge Hammer back the the 80’s shooting at a suicide jumper on a high rise trying to scare him off the ledge.
I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.
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