Man Attempts to Assault Nebraska Officer with Improvised Flame Thrower

A 57-year-old man reportedly used an aerosol spray can and a lighter to shoot a flame at an officer with the Omaha (NE) Police Department on Friday morning.

A 57-year-old man reportedly used an aerosol spray can and a lighter to shoot a flame at an officer with the Omaha (NE) Police Department on Friday morning.

The officer had been responding to calls that a man in a seventh floor apartment had been yelling for people to get out of the building because it was going to blow up, according to Omaha.com.

The man tried to light Officer Lukas Brazier with the spray can and lighter, the police report said.

Officers Deployed a TASER and took the subject into custody on charges of attempted assault on an officer.

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