CNN’s Coates Gets Confused During Live Report as Man Sets Himself on Fire Outside of the NYC Courthouse: ‘An Active Shooter

CNN’s Coates Gets Confused During Live Report as Man Sets Himself on Fire Outside of the NYC Courthouse: ‘An Active Shooter

COATES: “What do you say?

We also are seeing — an active shooter!

An active shooter is in the park outside the court!

We have a man who is — he has set fire to himself.

A man has emblazoned himself outside of the courthouse just now.

Our cameras are turning right now.

A man has now lit himself on fire outside of the courthouse in Manhattan where we are waiting for history to be made, a full jury panel is gone.

We are watching a man who is fully emblazoned in the front of the courthouse today.

We are watching multiple fires breaking out around his body and person.

We have seen an arm that has been visible, that has been engulfed in total flames.

There is chaos that is happening.

People are wondering right now if people are in danger.

I’m looking across the — across the courtyard.

There is a man racing to his aid.

There’s coats coming off to try to put out the fire.

We have members of security details, NYPD is rushing to the scene.

They are trying to come out, officers are on the scene.

A fire extinguisher is right now present, being put on this man to try to put out.

People are climbing over barricade to try to separate the public, to put out the flame on this man.

He has lit himself out on fire in front of the courthouse right now.

We are watching as they’re playing, we can smell the air.

I can smell the burning of some sort of a flesh.”