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A Florida man is clinging to life with horrific burns to 75% of his body after a sheriff’s deputy tased him at a gas station, sparking a fire that “cooked” the victim alive, according to his lawyers.
His lawyers also said that Jean Barreto, a FedEx employee with no prior criminal record, was returning from a gathering of motorbike enthusiasts, which had been broken up by Osceola County deputies when he stopped at a Wawa gas station less than a mile from his home.
Surveillance video from the area showed Barreto standing by the gas pump when he was tackled and body-slammed to the ground by an Osceola County sheriff’s deputy, who had been trailing him after an attempted traffic stop.
The deputy deployed the taser on him engulfing most of his body in flames, as seen in the footage. The deputy who tackled Barreto also suffered third-degree burns to half of his body.
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