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Read previewMax Azzarello, a 37-year-old from Florida, died after setting himself on fire outside the Manhattan courthouse where Trump's hush money trial is underway, The New York Times reports. AdvertisementSteven Waldman, a high school friend of Azzarello, told The Times his late friend was "heartbroken" when his mother passed." Related story"He was super curious about social justice and the way things 'could' be," a former classmate of Azzarello told The Times. AdvertisementTrump's historic hush money trial kicks offDonald Trump at the defense table in his Manhattan hush money trial with attorney Emil Bove. Reuters/Jane RosenbergTrump's hush money trial, making history as the first-ever trial of a former president, kicked off earlier this week with the selection of the jury.
Persons: , Max Azzarello, Azzarello, Trump, Steven Waldman, Waldman, Larry Altman, We've, Bill Clinton, Aaron Bushnell, Bushnell, Donald Trump, Emil Bove, Jane Rosenberg Organizations: Service, The New York Times, New York Police, BBC News, Business, Collect, Times, Embassy, Newsweek, Reuters Locations: Florida, Manhattan, The, USA, Washington ,
Until Friday, at least, the cable news coverage of the first criminal trial of a former president carried a hint of anticlimax. With the dry and slow-moving proceedings inside a Lower Manhattan courtroom closed to their cameras, the networks could only offer their usual interviews with experts and analysts, set to the sights and sounds of their outdoor, on-location camera positions. That all changed on Friday when a man from Florida, Max Azzarello, set himself on fire near the courthouse — immediately bringing home the promise and perils of live cable news, especially for the network that invented the genre, CNN. The network’s legal analyst and anchor, Laura Coates, was doing a live interview with a jury-selection expert when Mr. Azzarello began throwing a batch of conspiracy pamphlets into the air, then dousing himself with an accelerant and setting himself ablaze.
Persons: Max Azzarello, Laura Coates, Azzarello, dousing Organizations: CNN Locations: Manhattan, Florida
The journey that ended with a man setting himself on fire on Friday outside the Manhattan courthouse where Donald J. Trump was being tried seemed to have begun in Florida, with a series of increasingly bizarre outbursts. Standing in the afternoon chill, the man, Max Azzarello, 37, of St. Augustine, Fla., threw pamphlets into the air before dousing himself with an accelerant and setting his body ablaze. The police hurried to extinguish the flames, but officials said his injuries were grave, and he was being treated at a hospital burn unit. The fire just a block or two from the courthouse appeared calculated to draw widespread attention, horrifying bystanders and temporarily overshadowing the momentous trial of a former president. His social media postings and arrest records suggest the immolation stemmed instead from a place of conspiracy theories and paranoia.
Persons: Donald J, Trump, Max Azzarello, dousing Locations: Manhattan, Florida, St, Augustine, Fla
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