[kellyhound]

Update: A man who set himself on fire near the White House has died of his injuries, U.S. park police said Thursday.

The man, identified as A. G.of Bethesda, Maryland, lit himself on fire Wednesday afternoon on the Ellipse Park, not far from the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., in full view of passersby.

He “died of his injuries later that evening,” park police said in a statement.

An unidentified man set himself on fire early Wednesday afternoon in front of sightseers on the Ellipse park in downtown Washington, D.C., not far from the White House, authorities said.

The Ellipse is a 52-acre park area that lies south of the White House and north of the National Mall, in the heart of Washington. The fire occurred just north of the Washington Monument.

Secret Service spokesman Jeffrey Adams said in a statement that the agency’s Uniformed Division Officers “responded in seconds” after the “male individual lit himself on fire.” Officers then began administering first aid to the man.

“The individual is being transported to a local hospital,” Adams added.

A spokesman for the Washington Fire Department told that, “I can confirm that we’ve transported one patient with burns from the Ellipse and we’re now on the scene assisting law enforcement,” referring to Park Police and U.S. Secret Service officers.

Officials had no information on the man’s condition.

Alina Berzins, a 17-year-old recent high school graduate from Lorton, Virginia, told that she was visiting the National Mall with two of her cousins from Bolivia when “we saw this man” on the Ellipse and “he starts running, and then we saw him covered in flames.”

“He started to walk” and then “cops started coming to the area and he collapsed,” Berzins said. The fire then was extinguished, she said.

Berzins said that she and the other passersby in the area were stunned by the sight of the man.

“Everybody was in shock,” Berzins said. “I was in shock.”

Berzins’ father posted a video online that his daughter took of the incident.

She said that several dozen law-enforcement officers flooded the scene and were joined by a helicopter overhead and multiple Fire Department vehicles.

A White House spokesman had no immediate comment.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/29/man-...ite-house.html

[scfdffaemt]

This happened yesterday May 29th in Washington DC. Man set himself on fire.

[scfdffaemt]

Couple of pictures from the gentleman in Washington DC that set himself on fire.

[assclown]

Didn't even look bothered

[Zeeta]

I wonder what would make a person think, "Yeah, setting myself on fire is a good thing", or something to that effect.

[Padraig Flaherty]

He's smiling!

[John Doenut]

For a minute there I thought that riderless bicycle was going to know the burning guy on his ass. That would have ensured the video went down in the annals of video history as an all time great.

[Izumi]

Did he died?

[SLAPAPPY]

It's officially BBQ season!

[minka1]

Wow. No fucks given. The man looks so serene, damn. What were his burns like? Did he live? His face was spared.


What the fuck were the cops going to do? Beat him to death?
They aren’t rushing out with their EMT bags for any other life saving equipment...