{"id":978008,"date":"2021-11-06T19:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T23:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=978008"},"modified":"2021-11-06T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T23:44:07","slug":"man-reportedly-covered-in-hand-sanitizer-allegedly-burst-into-flames-after-being-tased-by-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-reportedly-covered-in-hand-sanitizer-allegedly-burst-into-flames-after-being-tased-by-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Reportedly Covered in Hand Sanitizer Allegedly Burst into Flames After Being Tased by Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-reportedly-covered-in-hand-sanitizer-allegedly-burst-into-flames-after-being-tased-by-officers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=978008&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-78350280-e1636215405187-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A 29-year-old Upstate New York man was sent to the hospital in serious condition after he was allegedly tased by police officers and burst into flames last weekend, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Jones, 29, allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-catskill-ed06eb6edac0ae99a5f2a92b8ee57b0e\">walked<\/a> into the Catskill Village Police Department and a confrontation with police ensued, the Associated Press reports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/state\/article\/Catskill-man-burst-into-flames-after-police-16595504.php\">citing<\/a> local newspaper the <em>Times Union<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Police Chief Dave Darling said Officers then allegedly tased Jones to subdue him after he had reportedly covered himself in hand sanitizer, according to the <em>Times Union<\/em>. Jones allegedly burst into flames after being tased, the outlet reports.<\/p>\n<p>Darling described the situation as \u201chorrible,\u201d the <em>Times Union<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think they were afraid he was going to hurt himself, and that\u2019s what started it,\u201d Darling told the <em>Times Union<\/em>. \u201cThere are still details that we\u2019re trying to develop.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jones \u201cis in an intensive care unit at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse. His condition is grave, according to people briefed on the matter,\u201d the <em>Times Union<\/em> wrote.<\/p>\n<p>CBS 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/hand-sanitizer-blamed-after-tased-man-catches-fire-in-police-station-claims-attorney?fbclid=IwAR1DSYa4zOfxyPRdNtf4fmaX6C8YOYlL1LQSmLPsKjDVeNSTFAnoLT76yt8\">reports<\/a> the incident took place on Friday, October 29.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019s attorney Kevin Luibrand said he could not comment on what action might be taken going forward and could neither comment as to why his client was inside the department, nor why he was tased, CBS 6 reports.<\/p>\n<p>Luibrand says there was an exchange that occurred that was caught on video, according to CBS 6.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe goal right now is to preserve whatever evidence there is as to what happened and for he to do his best with doctors to recover as far as he can,\u201d the attorney said, per CBS 6.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn a letter to Darling dated Thursday, Luibrand requested that the department preserve all evidence in the case, including audio and video recordings from street cameras and other devices, as well as any computer data from any Tasers that were used during the encounter,\u201d the <em>Times Union<\/em> wrote.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Darling said that there are cameras inside of the police station, but his officers are not equipped with body cameras, according to the <em>Times Union.&nbsp;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both CBS 6 and the <em>Times Union<\/em> report that the incident is being investigated by the Green County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old Upstate New York man was sent to the hospital in serious condition after he was allegedly tased by police officers and burst into flames last weekend, according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}