<p>Police in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arkansas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arkansas</a> accidentally set a suspect on fire after a prolonged police chase.</p>
<p>Arkansas State Police (ASP) were in pursuit of a suspect on a motorcycle in Little Rock last week, dashcam video showed. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Police</a> finally caught up with the suspect after a prolonged chase, and when one of the officers attempted to taser him, the suspect erupted into a fireball, before police extinguished the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fire</a> and arrested the suspect.</p>
<p>No news reports of the incident have been published, but a full-length video of the chase from the YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW_9WYT9OWs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Police Pursuits</a> provided the full context. The pursuit began at around 1:11 in the morning local time. ASP trooper Joseph Killian was in hot pursuit of a suspect speeding down the street on a motorcycle. Police chased the suspect while radioing for backup. Trooper Austin Duncan-Flemister caught up and gave chase, as the suspect continued onto the highway at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour. At around the 8:40 mark of the video, the suspect cuts through a shopping center parking lot and into a residential area, where police finally catch up to him.</p>
<p>As the suspect attempts to escape on foot, an officer tracks him down and deploys a taser. At that point, something in the suspect&#8217;s backpack catches fire and immediately explodes into a massive fireball. &#8220;He&#8217;s on fire!&#8221; Duncan-Flemister shouts, as other officers back away. The suspect gets up, still on fire himself, and stumbles away from the larger fire, then attempts to stop, drop, and roll. &#8220;Help me! Help me!&#8221; he can be heard shouting, before police return with fire extinguishers and put the fire out.</p>
<p>Officers then take the suspect into custody. &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; the suspect can be heard saying through Duncan-Flemister&#8217;s radio.</p>
<p>&#8220;None of us can,&#8221; an officer retorts, before ordering the suspect to put his hands behind his back.</p>
<p>Paramedics arrived on the scene shortly afterward and transported the suspect away from the scene.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unbeknownst to the Troopers, the suspect had a canister of gas in his backpack,&#8221; Police Pursuits wrote in the video description. &#8220;The TASER prongs likely punctured the can. Burns were mostly superficial, but obviously very painful. He is expected to make a full recovery.&#8221;</p>
<p>You can watch a shorter version of the video, showing the final moments of the chase, the explosion, and the arrest here:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Police in Arkansas chase a suspect who, it turns out, had a can of gasoline in his backpack. When an officer uses a taser on him, bad things result. <a href="https://t.co/rrKNjpZEZo">pic.twitter.com/rrKNjpZEZo</a></p>
<p>— Mike (@Doranimated) <a href="https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1583393804203462656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>That incident came just a few weeks after another suspect on a motorcycle had his bike catch fire while trying to escape a police chase.</p>
<p>Dashcam video from the YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iljUkhPYAOw">Arkansas State Police Videos</a> showed trooper Dakota Davis in pursuit of another suspect on a motorcycle on a highway outside of Little Rock. Police corner the suspect on the right shoulder of the highway; the suspect runs into the concrete barrier on the side of the road, where he can be heard falling off his bike. The bike rolls in front of Davis&#8217; cruiser while the suspect flees on foot. While police can be seen chasing the suspect on foot, the bike catches fire in front of Davis&#8217; cruiser. Davis quickly returns and pulls the car away, while another officer extinguishes the fire.</p>

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