Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, declared dead after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouse

Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, declared dead after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouse

A man has died after setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is taking place.

The New York City police department said on Saturday the man had been declared dead by staff at an area hospital.

Officials had said earlier the man, who was in his late 30s, was in critical condition.

The New York police department said the man, who they identified as Max Azzarello of St Augustine, Florida, did not appear to be targeting Trump or others involved in the trial.

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 on Friday. One of those pamphlets included references to “evil billionaires” but portions that were visible to a Reuters witness did not mention Trump.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    It becomes more crazy looking the more he tries to connect everything he is suspicious of into some grand interlinked conspiracy with some grand unified masterplan.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Yeah:

      • “Democrats and Republicans work together to screw over the public” — not crazy.
      • “Harvard-educated Simpsons writers are on a mission of propaganda” — crazy.
      • antidote101@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Aren’t we all pretty sure the wealthy classes seem to have different rules applied to them? Lighter sentences, less likelihood of being arrested, better treatment when they do get arrested.t Much shorter sentences in prisons which compare holiday resorts. I mean the first time Epstein was arrested for sex crimes he was allowed to leave the prison in daylight hours.

        … doesn’t that start to look like elites are in a criminal conspiracy? That other elites create these conditions for them? Eg. Wealthy elite schools producing unchecked criminality, and sharing the secrets of getting these better conditions?

        Like Harvard is a crime school?

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Claiming Democrats and Republicans work together on anything seems a pretty crazy suggestion these days.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Yeah, the first paragraph or so, I was like, yeah, this isn’t that out there. But by the second or third paragraph the conspiracies went off the deep end pretty quick.

        • Reyali@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          Yeah… this was the quote that jumped off the high dive for me.

          In order to explain the massive anomaly [massive stock growth and drop], our criminal government unleashed COVID on the world and told us these were the “stay at home stocks.”

        • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          The vibe feels to be he was individually right about most things, but people can find one thing they personally disagree with and the media said he is crazy, so he must be crazy. The Simpsons point was somewhat more of a general sense of the media thats free to consume was paid for by somebody and probably not just the goodness of their heart decided to foot that bill. Arguably Simpsons was, is, and always has been paid for one by of the worst humans alive Rupert Murdoch (A literal Monty Burns), so you really do have to ask why?