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.

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.