A man set himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy in D.C.
A man is in critical condition after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday afternoon, according to multiple law enforcement agencies.
The Air Force said the man was an active duty airman.
The U.S. Secret Service said it was responding to reports of an individual experiencing a possible medical or mental health emergency. Local police arrived around 1 p.m. ET.
The fire has since been extinguished. The Israeli Embassy in D.C. said none of its staff were injured.
Vito Maggiolo, a spokesperson for D.C. Fire and EMS, said the man has been transported to the hospital, where he has "critical life threatening injuries."
As of Sunday evening, NPR was not able to independently verify the man's identity or motives.
Andrew Leyden, a freelance journalist based in D.C., told NPR he saw burn marks near the Israeli Embassy's lawn, where the embassy had placed flags to represent the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Lynn Sweet, the Washington bureau chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote on X that there was a growing police presence outside the Israeli Embassy earlier in the afternoon, including local law enforcement searching a vehicle out of "precaution."
Posted at 6:53 PM, well after the details were available
They are going to weaponize the traumatic footage of being burned alive to pull some bullshit, "the footage is extremely disturbing, so for the viewers' mental wellbeing, we've faithfully transcribed this mentally disturbed man's final words." The White House transcripts cover up Biden's brain turning into soup all the fucking time, and they'll probably do it here too if they can't get away with simply ignoring it.
Just heard NPR report this as "His reason for doing so is still unknown." How? He said why he was doing it!
He literally screamed his reasons while he was burning, filthy lying libs, not an ounce of shame in them
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/25/1233810136/fire-man-israeli-embassy-washington
A man set himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy in D.C.
Posted at 6:53 PM, well after the details were available
look we need atleast 12 different independent sources to prove to us that what he was saying was actually what he meant to say
And half of those sources need to be isreali
Half, I think you mean all
They are going to weaponize the traumatic footage of being burned alive to pull some bullshit, "the footage is extremely disturbing, so for the viewers' mental wellbeing, we've faithfully transcribed this mentally disturbed man's final words." The White House transcripts cover up Biden's brain turning into soup all the fucking time, and they'll probably do it here too if they can't get away with simply ignoring it.
[Unintelligble]
"We believe he's saying 'tree felled is stan'"
Who do you believe, your lying eyes and ears or the neutral reporters of NPR?
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They're like a gangster listening to their cohort worry about not wanting anything bad to happen to a merchants shop. Yup we're the good guys.
NPR TO THE