[gdani]

There's a back story here that is not being told

And that is?

Just for sake of discussion...

Irrelevant

Think those cops might be justifiably less sympathetic to an asshole on fire like that?

If you bothered to read the article, you would see the cops assaulted a bystander, not the perp.

[Morgana]

gdani is correct the police attacked an innocent person.