Jones remains on his knees and appears to be in physical distress as he continued speaking with the officers. The video shows that officer briefly try to pull Jones' arm behind his back, and then stop. The video shows the officer who fired the Taser walking back through the interior station door into the lobby and appearing to try to help Jones, who by that time had managed to put out the flames. "Once the threat has been stopped, you don't just say, 'I'm going to let that person burn,'" the official said. He said the officers also should have immediately shifted their actions to trying to assist Jones when he caught fire, likening it to the imperative to pull a suspect from a burning car if they crash during a vehicle pursuit. The video raises questions about the officers' actions, including whether they followed their training and protocols.Ī law enforcement official who has extensive experience training police officers on the use of force - and who spoke to the Times Union on the condition of not being identified because he is not involved in the Catskill investigation - said that his officers are instructed to never use a Taser on an individual who may have been recently exposed to a flammable liquid, including hand sanitizer, which contains alcohol. Warning: This video includes graphic content. Cuomo that empowers the attorney general to investigate fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians. That office took over the investigation under a 2015 Executive Order issued by former Gov. Surveillance video of the disturbing encounter was released Friday by the state attorney general's office. He died last month after spending 47 days on a ventilator in an intensive care unit at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse. Jason Jones, who had doused himself with flammable hand sanitizer seconds before the officer fired his Taser, fell to the ground and was left to use his hands to try and put out the flames that had engulfed his upper body and head.
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