Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
A man set himself on fire Friday outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump's hush money trial is taking place. The man was in the designated protest area outside. Police officers and officials ran toward him and someone used a fire extinguisher to try to put out the fire. It appeared to happen around the time that the jury was fully empaneled — with 12 jurors and six alternates selected to sit for a trial that's expected to last about six weeks.
While still on fire, the man tried to sit up. Police then used a large extinguisher to put out the fire. A 73-year-old man from the Upper West Side, Dave, watched it happen. Dave said the person threw up a bundle of pamphlets, picked them up and threw them again. “I heard this clattering,” he said. “That caught our attention. Then he pulled out a can.” David said he saw the man begin to douse himself in something before taking out a lighter. “There I thought, this could be awful,” he said.
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