• A video by Arkansas State Police shows a man’s backpack bursting into flames after being tasered by a state trooper with the Arkansas State Police.
• Thirty-eight-year-old Christopher Gaylor is in the hospital and expected to be ok. Authorities say the backpack he was carrying had a gallon of gasoline in it, that started the fire.
• It happened Oct. 13 at 1:18 a.m. That’s when an Arkansas State trooper tried pulling over Gaylor, who was traveling on his motorcycle east along Asher Avenue near Pine Street. Authorizes say he had no license plate exhibited.

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