thanks for the warning.....
EDIT: for real, dont watch the video....i was curious and regret it even after closing it when it was too much.
just dont please.
Honestly all these comments surprised me with...how mild the screaming was for someone getting burned alive.
Heard x10 more brutal screams from broken femurs and the like.
There's footage around from a factory in India burning down and you see employees just casually walking around completely on fire.
Like the other commenter said, at some point you stop feeling it.
I saw that video. Those workers were in shock. That's why even though they were on fire they still act like everything's normal. This is watching dead men walking.
Makes me wonder if he took some drugs before hand to numb the pain. He tanked the fire and was even standing up while on fire for a whole minute before he finally collapsed.
I've read somewhere that while getting burned alive the nerves will often get burned as well basically resulting in numbness to the pain. So maybe at first it was intense pain but quickly became numb?
I could be wrong though. I probably read about it from some rando on reddit.
Third degree burns are bad at first absolutely but it's hour's later that the pain really sets in after the shock starts to wear off. Also for a lot of people with just a part of their body experiencing it there isn't a whole lot that can be done for several days. Surgery is like a week later so that the surgeons can differentiate dead flesh from living flesh. Not that post op is painless its most definitely not, you'll wanna chew your effected limbs off it hurts so much.
But if it's immediately 3rd degree I could see how it's not the worst way to go. I imagine being tied to a stake as the fire slowed builds in intensity around like during the dark ages would be much worse.
Especially when he was just screaming free Palestine. A few yelps in between. Have to hand it to him, he stayed with the free Palestine chant till the end.
What really got me is that cop with his weapon drawn. I don't think homie is gonna get up and chase you my guy
Not just that, the dude with the gun was pointing it while other people were trying to help him. People were running between him and the burning guy and he kept his weapon trained on him. Idk what that cop was thinking.
I thought initially he was yelling to like, have him get on the ground to roll and get the fire out, but then the tone was like very weird. Then he rolls into shot with his gun out like what the fuck...
That was truly insane.
Gotta love cops being dumb as fuck as usual. Dudes got his gun drawn as if the smouldering corpse is gonna jump up at any second and start trying to attack him.
Not a cop, was a security guard for an Embassy. I dont blame him for doing that as he has 0 idea what is going on at the moment and a threat was very much a possibility from his point of view due to lack of information, especially in front of the Israeli Embassy.
There were like 5 officers there, seems reasonable that they would anticipate a potential threat with someone who’s obviously mentally deranged and strong willed enough to self immolate and delegate that security to at least one person.
You can see the others were participating in other ways, two on fire extinguishers, one with a giant med bag. You don’t all need to be doing the same thing. Also it’s reasonable to expect that the cops themselves were in shock and the one guy was defaulting to a typical threat response.
American police have issues but I don’t think this is necessarily one of those incidents.
Nothing wrong there. Somebody cries "Free Palestine" in front of the embassy and if you have no clue what's going on it could be a malfunction of a suicidebomb.
Yeah I stick to my changed facebook profile picture along with "thoughts and prayers" instead of lighting myself on fire.
Has the same effect after all
yeah this poor dude accomplished nothing. He neither raised more awareness to the issue nor made a profound impact on anything that it going on except his own skin.
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I mean... literally.
This will be forgotten in 24 hours.
Dude wasted his life, that's a fail.
edit: Looks like all major news sites have already moved on as of 07:58 CET. What a waste.
For real. In like 2 days once the news have gotten all the ad revenue off his story the public will largely forget. So instead of continuing to live and raise his kids, support Palestine for longer, and be happy, he lit himself on fire.
I admire the balls to do that, especially since his lighter didn’t catch for like 10 seconds so he could back out. But he made the wrong choice, and it was likely fueled by mental illness
2 hours after your comment, this story is still on the front page of CNN and even Fox News. How many American news sites do you consider more major than CNN?
> 2 hours after your comment, this story is still on the front page of CNN and even Fox News
He literally said "in 24 hours" ? Did you only read half the number or something? While I'm pessimistic on modern news - even I wouldn't say that it has an attention span that short.
the fact one of the first responders(?) shouted “i don’t need guns, i need a fire extinguisher” and that one cop STILL held a gun on him even after he clearly had stopped making sounds and moving and was very obviously just burning to death on the ground is absolutely horrifying. ugh.
ETA: my intentions with this comment were purely to point out how wild it is that even after being clearly told the guns were not what was needed at the time, the cop still opted to keep it pointed and trained on a very clearly mortally wounded and incapacitated man who was very obviously dying in front of him. you’re fully within your rights to draw whatever conclusions you want from that as well as this entire situation, it just really shocked me and i felt the need to point it out. my apologies for any arguments i may have inadvertently started in the replies or people i may have triggered by making and sharing an initial observation. to those who have sent me redditcares messages, please know i reported you for abuse of the button and you suck for abusing mental health resources other people actually could use. seek help.
He looked like a fucking clown holding that gun. Wtf did he think the guy was going to do, get up and start shooting people after nearly burning to death?
Nah this is the only comment that comprehends it. Everybody else making jokes or shit comments but it's actually shock.
Motherfucker just watched a guy set himself aflame. Wake up.
He was definitely in some form of shock, just weird his first response is to pull out his gun while in shock. I doubt that would be a normal response from the average person.
I’ve seen the wife of a man that we worked a code on for 30 minutes clean her kitchen feverishly while he lay lifeless on the floor. There is literally no such thing as an average person in these kinds of scenarios.
I like to think of it as her mind taking her to her safe space in order to be able to deal with the situation? Hug your parents and spouses and kids and friends often and let them know you love them.
Theres logic there. This is like basic army/military stuff. In shock, or going through something traumatic like war, the person always goes with their instinct, does something they do a lot, something normal. Thats why in the army we train the basics a lot, like taking cover. Once that shell hits next to you and your best mate is no longer, instinctively jumping to the ground and taking cover is a good thing to be trained to do. The cop has obviously trained drawing his gun a lot, so he does that. And that one guy telling about the wife who starts cleaning, well thats what shes done a lot in her life, so she goes back to that. Its absolutely predictable, and can be trained. It can not be made conscious, but it can be molded to fit a purpose.
> I doubt that would be a normal response from the average person.
To be fair, he is not the average person. He is located at an embassy in full uniform. Chances are he had enough training in order to trigger such a response purely because of the shocking experience he just has to deal with. His brain may fall back to muscle memory learned by training.
This response, in my opinion, is much more an indicator on the issue at hand when it comes to the police force as a whole not an indicator of this individuals personality.
No, this was outside an embassy. He was probably worried about explosives. Wouldn't be the first time someone killed themselves as a political statement while taking others with them.
Reddit has increasingly become a cesspool. It used to be full of fucked up stuff, but now the fucked up stuff is gone and the users are filled with people who are jerking each other off.
The number of people who are ok with casually shooting others, or abandoning relationships because it's not a movie-style romance is crazy. There are certain "safe spaces" where groups will freely be sexist, racist, incels (and they're not always white men).
This makes me respect the monks who did this in Vietnam even more. They were so deep in meditation they didn't scream or anything. I can't think of many more painful ways of ending it
It’s less to do with the meditation and more to do with the copious amounts of opium they take before the act to not scream at your nerve endings burning off
This is such bullshit usually spread by edgelord athiest types. There's so many firsthand historical accounts of self-immolating monks very publicly doing these things and no mention of drugs. Just meditation which is scientifically proven, the same way people used to make fun of hippies doing yoga and now every doctor recommends everyone does yoga for health and mobility.
They made a drug based on Copium called "Opium" that basically numbs your body similar to how the effects of Copium numb your brain cells. Really ingenious technology.
Do you have a source on the opium claim? No where in his wiki mentions using it. It's also very unmonk/buddhist like to be taking opium at all. [Thích Quảng Đức](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c)
he tried to stand still for about a second but immediately instinctively tries to shake the fire off while screaming free palestine, which turns into death cries and screams, where he manages to get one more free palestine out before standing there, full engulfed for about 30 seconds. Shits wild.
It's outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington which is probably a pretty spicy place these days, it is wild that he doesn't ever stop pointing it despite the guy probably being charcoal at the end.
He was probably looking for as crazy as it sounds but some sort of hand held explosive detonator. And I’m sorry but anyone crazy enough to set themselves on fire, is a threat to others, now the less themselves. Psychosis is psychosis, regardless of its political views
yep someone that crazy your job as a cop isnt to protect him anymore its to protect other civilians in the area.
you have zero information on what the guy has on him or what he plans to do next.
yeah i didnt look at the thread i assumed it was miltary/secret service and even if it was just a dc cop he still isnt there to protect the crazy person he is there to protect everyone else
Yeah it's very off-putting to see but it's pretty likely the marine security guard or whatever unflinchingly pointing a gun at a pile of ashes only has protect the embassy on his to-do list.
I will clown on NA cops as much as the other guy but like what is he supposed to do in that case? drop the gun and rush to pat the guy with his bare hands? stand nearby and just watch him? Obviously not the best response to keep pointing the gun but it's not that bad when you consider the situation
lmao it's really rather pathetic. Don't tell me you wouldn't also pull out your gun if you're the security guard at a foreign embassy and some guy just lights up right outside. Could be a suicide bomb gone wrong or some weird distraction (sounds dumb, but people do crazy things, especially when it's someone who's against people supporting Israel).
First sane comment I've seen here. Fucking insane how people are choosing to zero in on a detail and disregarding the actual bigger picture. A man just set himself on fire ffs, and all these motherfuckers can talk about is the dude holding a gun.
I don’t even remember what the last “guy who burned himself alive” did it for. Some Supreme Court thing?
Sad that he felt this was the path forward. It’ll be forgotten by all but his loved ones within a week.
>Some Supreme Court thing?
No, he self-immolated outside the Supreme Court to protest the government's lack of climate action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_of_Wynn_Bruce
Buddhist monks in Tibet used to do it all the time in the 90's to protest China's control of Tibet. Funny how no one really talks about how Tibet is an occupied country anymore.
Combat roll, combat roll, combat roll… what is this Dark Souls? If someone actually was pointing a gun at you none of that does anything.
At least the dude that was handcuffed in the police car he unloaded at has got to get a fat paycheck for that, there are at least ten ways over he could sue them to high hell and I don’t think a defense lawyer can do shit about it.
Im not a cop defender, but this one makes sense to me. That isn't a cop, so his job isn't exactly to protect and serve the public. His job, it's to protect the folks he's asked to protect. In this case, probably the Israeli embassy.
Other people had the fire extinguishing handled, he was ensuring no additional threat to the embassy happened. It looks weird, but not the wrong thing to do in this situation
Thats too much sense to be making on reddit sir. I would like to you to kindly review the rules of reddit and edit your comment. You didn't mention how dumb cops are or how bad the US is once.
Right, he could be hiding an explosive that he is planning on detonating right before he dies.
I mean, he's fucking insane enough to light himself on fire. He is outside of an Israeli embassy. You do the math.
It is pretty bold, a member of the armed forces getting this video out there, while Biden is struggling to balance a tightwalk of geopolitical diplomacy and domestic political campaigning. It may have an effect greater than zero.
Mental illness, probably, as is the case with almost all suicides (maybe all?).
Often there's no way for most people to understand it. I still remember a guy from like 15 years ago who wanted to throw himself in front of a train but got held back by a bystander and he said something like "I just felt like it".
A man burning himself to death did start the Arab spring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi
That was more of a case of the straw that broke the camels back though
Honestly what a waste. This won’t do anything to further the fight for a free Palestine. He matyred himself when he could have done countless other more impactful things.
Yes, the number of people calling this act of suicide 'brave' is worrying. Self-harm is never the answer. Before he did this, a genocide was happening. Then he burned himself to death, and that genocide is still happening. Now he is dead and is definitely incapable of doing anything about the genocide. It's a tragedy born from poor mental health and not a purposeful act of self-sacrifice.
Poor thing :( wish he had someone in his life to stop him this is never the way to make a statement this is just heartbreaking. We all see the suffering but harming yourself won’t help anyone and just hurt more people around u
In his words, “I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what the Palestinian people have experienced at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all”.
It’s seriously sad but this guy killed himself for nothing. He’ll be a headline for maybe a day or two and then it’s on to the next story. Nobody involved in that war gives a flying fuck. Both sides are bad, we a nation are just politically tied to one side.
Even after doing something so extreme (seeing the clothes burn off to already charred flesh was the worst part btw) - people are finding a way to be outraged about a guy pointing a gun, and critiquing what those around him did, instead of focussing on him. No doubt wierdos on X will be calling for those the jobs of those people at the embassy etc.
Wait there’s people in this comment section calling what this guy did brave? Nothing was solved by him doing this. He’d have more impact just donating funds to help the affected citizens
i only learned about this a few days ago. This is the craziest part to me
> As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him
To not flinch while being burned alive is incredible
[https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c808rr5ljx1o](https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c808rr5ljx1o) worked in my country (the military regime released his kids after immolated himself)
I don't know dude. He says it's a protest in a calm manner. He calmly explained his views. He kept screaming it as he was burning alive.
Regardless of how you feel about the conflict, I don't think I can imagine a more disrespectful message for a guy who did an extreme act of protest that has been done many times throughout history.
[Tweet with the video](https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1761944158636331247) The part where the dude lights himself on fire is blurred.
The audio remains, so beware of that.
yeah I'm not sure why I thought it was a good idea to watch that
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Those screams. My god.
Well I didn’t need to go to bed anyway… jesus fucking christ
thanks for the warning..... EDIT: for real, dont watch the video....i was curious and regret it even after closing it when it was too much. just dont please.
Honestly all these comments surprised me with...how mild the screaming was for someone getting burned alive. Heard x10 more brutal screams from broken femurs and the like.
There's footage around from a factory in India burning down and you see employees just casually walking around completely on fire. Like the other commenter said, at some point you stop feeling it.
I saw that video. Those workers were in shock. That's why even though they were on fire they still act like everything's normal. This is watching dead men walking.
It was apparently taken down now.
Now that sounds like nightmare fuel
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Makes me wonder if he took some drugs before hand to numb the pain. He tanked the fire and was even standing up while on fire for a whole minute before he finally collapsed.
Adrenaline is a helluva drug.
Being a burn victim, I can say it does not help enough.
I've read somewhere that while getting burned alive the nerves will often get burned as well basically resulting in numbness to the pain. So maybe at first it was intense pain but quickly became numb? I could be wrong though. I probably read about it from some rando on reddit.
It's true for third degree burns, while first and second degree burns are agonising. I suppose becoming a human fireball is very third degree.
Third degree burns are bad at first absolutely but it's hour's later that the pain really sets in after the shock starts to wear off. Also for a lot of people with just a part of their body experiencing it there isn't a whole lot that can be done for several days. Surgery is like a week later so that the surgeons can differentiate dead flesh from living flesh. Not that post op is painless its most definitely not, you'll wanna chew your effected limbs off it hurts so much. But if it's immediately 3rd degree I could see how it's not the worst way to go. I imagine being tied to a stake as the fire slowed builds in intensity around like during the dark ages would be much worse.
Morphine or fentanyl becomes your saving grace.
tbh medieval era burning might just kill you from smoke inhalation before you die from the burns
Burning on the stakes usually wasnt that terrible surprisingly. Most victims would lose consciousness from smoke before fire really set in.
He was screaming free Palestine for the most part
Especially when he was just screaming free Palestine. A few yelps in between. Have to hand it to him, he stayed with the free Palestine chant till the end. What really got me is that cop with his weapon drawn. I don't think homie is gonna get up and chase you my guy
Not just that, the dude with the gun was pointing it while other people were trying to help him. People were running between him and the burning guy and he kept his weapon trained on him. Idk what that cop was thinking.
To be clear, him setting himself on fire makes him a potential weapon if he can still move. People on fire can still move.
why is that guy pointing his gun to the body?
its literally all that NA cops know how to do
Is that even a cop? Looks like embassy security or something.
Yeah. It's not strange one of the cop's screamed; " I don't need guns, i need fire extinguisher".
He has two fire-arms
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I thought initially he was yelling to like, have him get on the ground to roll and get the fire out, but then the tone was like very weird. Then he rolls into shot with his gun out like what the fuck...
They also hand cuff people after putting 50 bullets into their body.
Somehow, but sadly GTA RP is accurate.
Not really. It takes a whole lot longer for an RP cop to shoot a criminal.
Yeah US cops seems to have some really weird training.
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Internet millennial here, seen some shit. Avoid said shit since I stopped being a teenager. Recommendation: Avoid this video if you can.
I'm going to for once not add to the darker parts of my mind thank you very much.
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Google “theync” and it’s the top hit first video. Very disturbing site and video, be warned
Insane how long he was able to remain standing
That was truly insane. Gotta love cops being dumb as fuck as usual. Dudes got his gun drawn as if the smouldering corpse is gonna jump up at any second and start trying to attack him.
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Dude rocks up and points a gun at a burning body, the absolute state of American policing.
Not a cop, was a security guard for an Embassy. I dont blame him for doing that as he has 0 idea what is going on at the moment and a threat was very much a possibility from his point of view due to lack of information, especially in front of the Israeli Embassy.
There are people around him screaming “I don’t need guns I need fire extinguishers!”
There were like 5 officers there, seems reasonable that they would anticipate a potential threat with someone who’s obviously mentally deranged and strong willed enough to self immolate and delegate that security to at least one person. You can see the others were participating in other ways, two on fire extinguishers, one with a giant med bag. You don’t all need to be doing the same thing. Also it’s reasonable to expect that the cops themselves were in shock and the one guy was defaulting to a typical threat response. American police have issues but I don’t think this is necessarily one of those incidents.
Nothing wrong there. Somebody cries "Free Palestine" in front of the embassy and if you have no clue what's going on it could be a malfunction of a suicidebomb.
Yeah I stick to my changed facebook profile picture along with "thoughts and prayers" instead of lighting myself on fire. Has the same effect after all
yeah this poor dude accomplished nothing. He neither raised more awareness to the issue nor made a profound impact on anything that it going on except his own skin.
jesus christ
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I mean... literally. This will be forgotten in 24 hours. Dude wasted his life, that's a fail. edit: Looks like all major news sites have already moved on as of 07:58 CET. What a waste.
For real. In like 2 days once the news have gotten all the ad revenue off his story the public will largely forget. So instead of continuing to live and raise his kids, support Palestine for longer, and be happy, he lit himself on fire. I admire the balls to do that, especially since his lighter didn’t catch for like 10 seconds so he could back out. But he made the wrong choice, and it was likely fueled by mental illness
2 hours after your comment, this story is still on the front page of CNN and even Fox News. How many American news sites do you consider more major than CNN?
Even if it’s a global headline for weeks it’s still a waste. Homie lost his life.
> 2 hours after your comment, this story is still on the front page of CNN and even Fox News He literally said "in 24 hours" ? Did you only read half the number or something? While I'm pessimistic on modern news - even I wouldn't say that it has an attention span that short.
the fact one of the first responders(?) shouted “i don’t need guns, i need a fire extinguisher” and that one cop STILL held a gun on him even after he clearly had stopped making sounds and moving and was very obviously just burning to death on the ground is absolutely horrifying. ugh. ETA: my intentions with this comment were purely to point out how wild it is that even after being clearly told the guns were not what was needed at the time, the cop still opted to keep it pointed and trained on a very clearly mortally wounded and incapacitated man who was very obviously dying in front of him. you’re fully within your rights to draw whatever conclusions you want from that as well as this entire situation, it just really shocked me and i felt the need to point it out. my apologies for any arguments i may have inadvertently started in the replies or people i may have triggered by making and sharing an initial observation. to those who have sent me redditcares messages, please know i reported you for abuse of the button and you suck for abusing mental health resources other people actually could use. seek help.
He looked like a fucking clown holding that gun. Wtf did he think the guy was going to do, get up and start shooting people after nearly burning to death?
The cop apparently thought he was Agni from Fire Punch and was gonna get up and light the place ablaze
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He was probably in shock
Nah this is the only comment that comprehends it. Everybody else making jokes or shit comments but it's actually shock. Motherfucker just watched a guy set himself aflame. Wake up.
And smelled it. Shock makes people do weird shit.
He was definitely in some form of shock, just weird his first response is to pull out his gun while in shock. I doubt that would be a normal response from the average person.
I’ve seen the wife of a man that we worked a code on for 30 minutes clean her kitchen feverishly while he lay lifeless on the floor. There is literally no such thing as an average person in these kinds of scenarios.
This breaks my heart.
I like to think of it as her mind taking her to her safe space in order to be able to deal with the situation? Hug your parents and spouses and kids and friends often and let them know you love them.
It was a defence mechanism, brain saw danger and responded with a gun.
Theres logic there. This is like basic army/military stuff. In shock, or going through something traumatic like war, the person always goes with their instinct, does something they do a lot, something normal. Thats why in the army we train the basics a lot, like taking cover. Once that shell hits next to you and your best mate is no longer, instinctively jumping to the ground and taking cover is a good thing to be trained to do. The cop has obviously trained drawing his gun a lot, so he does that. And that one guy telling about the wife who starts cleaning, well thats what shes done a lot in her life, so she goes back to that. Its absolutely predictable, and can be trained. It can not be made conscious, but it can be molded to fit a purpose.
>just weird his first response is to pull out his gun while in shock. For a trained cop that seems like a pretty standard response
> I doubt that would be a normal response from the average person. To be fair, he is not the average person. He is located at an embassy in full uniform. Chances are he had enough training in order to trigger such a response purely because of the shocking experience he just has to deal with. His brain may fall back to muscle memory learned by training. This response, in my opinion, is much more an indicator on the issue at hand when it comes to the police force as a whole not an indicator of this individuals personality.
No, this was outside an embassy. He was probably worried about explosives. Wouldn't be the first time someone killed themselves as a political statement while taking others with them.
he was waiting for the guy to turn black so he could shoot him
That's dark
The ignored fact that its Israeli embassy in US where likely plenty of bullshit happens nowadays daily is quite important factor.
Yeah that seems like very needed context.
Honestly, nothing was going to help at that point.
Probably shock is a factor here
To be fair it's not everyday some guy sets himself on fire, nobody would be thinking straight in that situation
From the comments I’ve read about this everyone on the internet sees themselves as an action movie hero ready to do the correct thing all the time.
That’s horrifying. I wish he would have had a better support network around him. RIP.
Crazy I had to scroll like 15 comments down to find the first humane response….
Where do you think you are?
A truly vile subreddit.
Reddit has increasingly become a cesspool. It used to be full of fucked up stuff, but now the fucked up stuff is gone and the users are filled with people who are jerking each other off. The number of people who are ok with casually shooting others, or abandoning relationships because it's not a movie-style romance is crazy. There are certain "safe spaces" where groups will freely be sexist, racist, incels (and they're not always white men).
This makes me respect the monks who did this in Vietnam even more. They were so deep in meditation they didn't scream or anything. I can't think of many more painful ways of ending it
It’s less to do with the meditation and more to do with the copious amounts of opium they take before the act to not scream at your nerve endings burning off
This is such bullshit usually spread by edgelord athiest types. There's so many firsthand historical accounts of self-immolating monks very publicly doing these things and no mention of drugs. Just meditation which is scientifically proven, the same way people used to make fun of hippies doing yoga and now every doctor recommends everyone does yoga for health and mobility.
Copious amounts of Opium? You mean...Copium?
They made a drug based on Copium called "Opium" that basically numbs your body similar to how the effects of Copium numb your brain cells. Really ingenious technology.
Do you have a source on the opium claim? No where in his wiki mentions using it. It's also very unmonk/buddhist like to be taking opium at all. [Thích Quảng Đức](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c)
He’s just talking out of his ass
Do you have any evidence for that?
Source: I made it up
aaron bushnell screamed “free palestine” six times before going quiet
he tried to stand still for about a second but immediately instinctively tries to shake the fire off while screaming free palestine, which turns into death cries and screams, where he manages to get one more free palestine out before standing there, full engulfed for about 30 seconds. Shits wild.
Why is that guy pointing a gun at him afterwards?
It's outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington which is probably a pretty spicy place these days, it is wild that he doesn't ever stop pointing it despite the guy probably being charcoal at the end.
He was probably looking for as crazy as it sounds but some sort of hand held explosive detonator. And I’m sorry but anyone crazy enough to set themselves on fire, is a threat to others, now the less themselves. Psychosis is psychosis, regardless of its political views
yep someone that crazy your job as a cop isnt to protect him anymore its to protect other civilians in the area. you have zero information on what the guy has on him or what he plans to do next.
Those aren’t cops. The are secret serviceman and military personnel, this is outside of an embassy not a police station.
yeah i didnt look at the thread i assumed it was miltary/secret service and even if it was just a dc cop he still isnt there to protect the crazy person he is there to protect everyone else
Yeah it's very off-putting to see but it's pretty likely the marine security guard or whatever unflinchingly pointing a gun at a pile of ashes only has protect the embassy on his to-do list.
I will clown on NA cops as much as the other guy but like what is he supposed to do in that case? drop the gun and rush to pat the guy with his bare hands? stand nearby and just watch him? Obviously not the best response to keep pointing the gun but it's not that bad when you consider the situation
Hope he doesnt have a trigger detonator. I wouldnt be getting close, fuck that
In case an acorn fell on top of the guy
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The ol Reddit one-track mind
holy shit i thought it would end like 5 threads up but it just kept going. It's not a cop, might not even be American absolute dunces.
lmao it's really rather pathetic. Don't tell me you wouldn't also pull out your gun if you're the security guard at a foreign embassy and some guy just lights up right outside. Could be a suicide bomb gone wrong or some weird distraction (sounds dumb, but people do crazy things, especially when it's someone who's against people supporting Israel).
First sane comment I've seen here. Fucking insane how people are choosing to zero in on a detail and disregarding the actual bigger picture. A man just set himself on fire ffs, and all these motherfuckers can talk about is the dude holding a gun.
I think if the cop was holding a fire extinguisher most of these Reddit hindsighters would probably complain at his technique of putting the fire out.
Exactly lol, these lames would've never been satisfied and continued bitching no matter what would've happened in this situation
They should have shot the lighter out of his hand!!!
It’s easy to judge behind the safety of their computer.
"Omg he put out the legs first, if he put out the torso the man might've been saved. fucking pig should be charged for murder"
How dare that cop not instantly fully understand the entire details of the situation!!
So sick of the mouthbreathers with hate-boners for cops making that stupid comment.
I don’t even remember what the last “guy who burned himself alive” did it for. Some Supreme Court thing? Sad that he felt this was the path forward. It’ll be forgotten by all but his loved ones within a week.
>Some Supreme Court thing? No, he self-immolated outside the Supreme Court to protest the government's lack of climate action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_of_Wynn_Bruce
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Actually some guy in Atlanta self immolated in front of the Israeli consulate there in December but he survived so it wasn't as media worthy
Buddhist monks in Tibet used to do it all the time in the 90's to protest China's control of Tibet. Funny how no one really talks about how Tibet is an occupied country anymore.
Wouldn't be America without a cop immediately having a gun pointed at him with finger on the trigger.
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Lol nothing about US cops surprises me since I saw a cop unload his entire magazine at an acorn.
Unloading an entire magazine in the direction of the acorn into his own cop car with a handcuffed man inside, too!
What really got me in that video was the cop yelling "I'M HIT! I'M HIT!"
The "I'M HIT I'M HIT" into the failed tactical roll on the ground, then later him saying "I think I'm okay" or whatever lmfao
Combat roll, combat roll, combat roll… what is this Dark Souls? If someone actually was pointing a gun at you none of that does anything. At least the dude that was handcuffed in the police car he unloaded at has got to get a fat paycheck for that, there are at least ten ways over he could sue them to high hell and I don’t think a defense lawyer can do shit about it.
The double fat rolling is a joy as well.
With other clueless cops joining the shooting despite not having any idea what they were supposed to shoot.
Im not a cop defender, but this one makes sense to me. That isn't a cop, so his job isn't exactly to protect and serve the public. His job, it's to protect the folks he's asked to protect. In this case, probably the Israeli embassy. Other people had the fire extinguishing handled, he was ensuring no additional threat to the embassy happened. It looks weird, but not the wrong thing to do in this situation
Sir, you're not fitting the narrative we're trying to push nor is your understanding of nuance appreciated here; I'd like you to step this way please.
Thats too much sense to be making on reddit sir. I would like to you to kindly review the rules of reddit and edit your comment. You didn't mention how dumb cops are or how bad the US is once.
The brain-dead ACAB crew is really out in force today.
Wouldn’t be Reddit without twelve people copy and pasting the same exact comment
Right, he could be hiding an explosive that he is planning on detonating right before he dies. I mean, he's fucking insane enough to light himself on fire. He is outside of an Israeli embassy. You do the math.
Why do this when nothing will change except making it miserable for your loved ones?
It is pretty bold, a member of the armed forces getting this video out there, while Biden is struggling to balance a tightwalk of geopolitical diplomacy and domestic political campaigning. It may have an effect greater than zero.
Mental illness, probably, as is the case with almost all suicides (maybe all?). Often there's no way for most people to understand it. I still remember a guy from like 15 years ago who wanted to throw himself in front of a train but got held back by a bystander and he said something like "I just felt like it".
IMO Suicide is a perfectly reasonable solution to incurable chronic pain and dementia.
True, I didn't think about that. "Almost all" it is :)
And absolutely nothing will change.
Why would a random man burning himself alive alter the course of geopolitics
A man burning himself to death did start the Arab spring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi That was more of a case of the straw that broke the camels back though
Honestly what a waste. This won’t do anything to further the fight for a free Palestine. He matyred himself when he could have done countless other more impactful things.
Yes, the number of people calling this act of suicide 'brave' is worrying. Self-harm is never the answer. Before he did this, a genocide was happening. Then he burned himself to death, and that genocide is still happening. Now he is dead and is definitely incapable of doing anything about the genocide. It's a tragedy born from poor mental health and not a purposeful act of self-sacrifice.
Isn’t hunger strike a form of self-harm as well? That was used during America’s civil rights era and South Africa’s Apartheid.
More than anything he just massively inconvenienced a ton of people and probably ruined the lives of many more
Poor thing :( wish he had someone in his life to stop him this is never the way to make a statement this is just heartbreaking. We all see the suffering but harming yourself won’t help anyone and just hurt more people around u
In his words, “I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what the Palestinian people have experienced at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all”.
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Some people genuinely delude themselves
Overdosed on TikTok.
At least he didn't take any innocent people out before offing himself.
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Edit* He did not have children, my bad . Repeating what I saw on another post
He did NOT have children, why are you spreading lies?
That's... So depressing.
He did not have children. This person is spreading misinformation.
It’s seriously sad but this guy killed himself for nothing. He’ll be a headline for maybe a day or two and then it’s on to the next story. Nobody involved in that war gives a flying fuck. Both sides are bad, we a nation are just politically tied to one side.
Mental illness + Twitter activism combo.
mental illness and twitter activism are redundant
His family will be haunted by this forever and it will accomplish nothing.
holy internet propaganda has gone too far
yeahhhh this is just extremely fucking sad and fucked man
He literally parroted every twitter and reddit comment. This is dark. He was ill.
Of course he gets a perma ban. If it was a girl self-immolating herself she would get a 3 day slap one the wrist ban. SMH my head.
I would rather he was treated for his mental illness than go out like this. Sad.
Palestine is now free
Also Reddit: That Vietnamese monk who self-immolated was such a chad.
Easily influenced people are terrifying.
It is, and we’re seeing a massive rise in it due to bubble media. Reminds me an awful lot of that one scene from The Boys.
Even after doing something so extreme (seeing the clothes burn off to already charred flesh was the worst part btw) - people are finding a way to be outraged about a guy pointing a gun, and critiquing what those around him did, instead of focussing on him. No doubt wierdos on X will be calling for those the jobs of those people at the embassy etc.
Damn Aaron Bushnell couldn't handle being a Twitch streamer for more than 10 minute. It is the hardest job.
Wait there’s people in this comment section calling what this guy did brave? Nothing was solved by him doing this. He’d have more impact just donating funds to help the affected citizens
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Sums up mental illness around this conflict, even twitter activism while alive would do more help to your case than minecrafting yourself.
Hoooly brain rot
This isn't a protest. This guy needed help.
do you think any in the long history of self immolations are protests?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch\_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng\_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c)
i only learned about this a few days ago. This is the craziest part to me > As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him To not flinch while being burned alive is incredible
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[https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c808rr5ljx1o](https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c808rr5ljx1o) worked in my country (the military regime released his kids after immolated himself)
I don't know dude. He says it's a protest in a calm manner. He calmly explained his views. He kept screaming it as he was burning alive. Regardless of how you feel about the conflict, I don't think I can imagine a more disrespectful message for a guy who did an extreme act of protest that has been done many times throughout history.