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Maxwell Azzarello succumbed to his injuries, the New York City Police Department stated on Saturday. He had been pronounced dead at a nearby hospital in Collect Pond Park at around 1:30 p.m. on Friday. Eyewitnesses reported that the man had distributed pamphlets promoting conspiracy theories before immolating himself with an accelerant. “You can smell burning flesh,” Laura Coates, an anchor and CNN’s chief legal analyst, said as she stood at the scene with reporter Evan Perez. Law enforcement officers and bystanders rushed to aid the victim, who was initially hospitalised in critical condition…