Emergency personnel at the scene after a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial.NEW YORK – A man has died after setting himself on fire on April 19 outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s historic hush-money trial was taking place as jury selection wrapped up, but officials said he did not appear to have been targeting Trump.
Witnesses said the man pulled pamphlets out of a backpack and threw them in the air before he doused himself with a liquid and set himself on fire. “Right now we are labelling him as sort of a conspiracy theorist, and we are going from there,” Mr Tarik Sheppard, a deputy commissioner with the police department, said at a news conference.
The downtown Manhattan courthouse, heavily guarded by police, drew a throng of protesters and onlookers on April 15, the trial’s first day, though crowds have dwindled since then.The shocking development came shortly after jury selection for the trial was completed, clearing the way for prosecutors and defence attorneys to make opening statements next week in a case stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.
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