Horrifying image shows active-duty airman
engulfed in flames outside the Israeli
embassy in DC after shouting 'Free Palestine'
and accusing the US of being 'complicit
in genocide' in Gaza
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Dominic Yeatman
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/25/2024 9:58:06 PM
A serving US Air Force officer is in a critical condition in hospital after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in DC and livestreaming the results.
Horrifying video was broadcast uploaded to social media channel Twitch on Saturday afternoon after the man dressed in combat fatigues declared 'I will no longer be complicit in genocide'.
Flames spread over the man's body after he shouted: 'I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,' before repeatedly shouting 'Free Palestine!'
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Californian 2/25/2024 10:12:35 PM (No. 1665237)
Mentally ill.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/25/2024 10:44:57 PM (No. 1665259)
How totally Stupid...Flames can't touch me...OOOPSIE!
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Horrifying? Nah, hillarious. They should all do this.
Feel good story of the day.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jalo1951 2/25/2024 11:11:36 PM (No. 1665280)
Seriously? Why I do believe there are causes to die for this isn't it.
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As long as it keeps the pot stirred and weakens the White House incumbent's re-election chances...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 2/25/2024 11:23:41 PM (No. 1665285)
Good riddance. They shouldn't have psychos in the Air Force.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
garyhope 2/25/2024 11:52:27 PM (No. 1665299)
He shouldn't be in our military. he's a traitor. Keep him alive in extreme pain and then hang him. In Public. Drop his body off on his mothers doorstep
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/26/2024 12:02:35 AM (No. 1665300)
Crispy Critter
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Trigger2 2/26/2024 1:04:53 AM (No. 1665324)
Another indoctrinated moron finally meets his maker.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 2/26/2024 1:43:51 AM (No. 1665330)
Let it sink in that this reflects the predominant mental state of those who "Stand with Palestine."
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rfr46 2/26/2024 2:48:46 AM (No. 1665341)
The article says he is/was an officer, then it refers lo him as an airman. Which is it?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 2/26/2024 4:13:15 AM (No. 1665343)
Glad I retired from USAF in 1995. I thought it was bad then. If this idiot was in a " leadership position," then he did the enlisted troops a favor.
17 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/26/2024 4:56:04 AM (No. 1665354)
THIS, is in our Airforce?
This is the kind of trash you eject, not jab refuniks!! It makes me less confident in our armed forces - stateside or abroad. Would this guy fire on Americans if ordered? Would he?
More signs that Democrats shouldn't even be considered Americans.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/26/2024 5:38:56 AM (No. 1665366)
I hope he lives an extremely long and exceptionally painful existence! Really glad he is no longer in the Air Force.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chumley 2/26/2024 6:57:49 AM (No. 1665399)
The Air Force panders to weirdos. There were two black kids who announced to everyone that they were Moslems, and expected all the latitude that comes with that. I asked them which direction Mecca was and they'd never even heard of Mecca.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
broken01 2/26/2024 7:21:26 AM (No. 1665410)
Back in the 80 while yours truly was a high school sophomore my classmates and I were talking about the college and military aptitude tests. The ASVAB was in particular interest to me since I wanted to serve my country as my father and grandfathers did before me. My dad told me to score really high so that you can go into any service you want and get any job you want. He said this because in the Air Force you have to score high, or they won't even consider you. Long story short two buddies of mine who were smart joined to AF and I joined the Navy and got the job in logistics that I wanted. Bottom line the AF used to get smart people in their ranks. Now they get idiots like this who are dumb enough to set themselves ablaze for nothing. Pathetic.
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I think we should starts Go Fund Me in the airman’s name.
To buy more gasoline.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/26/2024 8:12:28 AM (No. 1665454)
One less. How many more million to go? And the Dearborn mayor calls Biden "the President who saved democracy in 2020".! Doesn't that tell you everything you want to know?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
NamVet70 2/26/2024 8:26:29 AM (No. 1665468)
I wonder how many more mentally ill personnel have slipped through whatever standards the Air Force currently use in recruiting.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
athina 2/26/2024 9:20:22 AM (No. 1665506)
I am wondering who accompanied him and took the video. How do you do that, and just watch it happen?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 2/26/2024 10:08:05 AM (No. 1665547)
Until I heard the screams - and they were awful - I thought this was a test run of AI gullibility, still might be.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Lesthanzero 2/26/2024 10:18:39 AM (No. 1665554)
Free at last.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 2/26/2024 10:57:40 AM (No. 1665584)
As usual, the fools that write for DM get the military part all tangled up.
This guy was an airman....and that is an enlisted man, NOT an officer. Of course, the DM folks claim he is both at different points in the article.
I'm sure that DM writers have no idea that a military "officer" is not like a "police officer". DM's ignorant are probably entirely unaware of the difference between officers and enlisted in the military.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
jc96 2/26/2024 11:45:25 AM (No. 1665615)
to all who are hung up on "Airman" being an officer or an enlisted, it makes no difference. Everyone in the AF is an "Airman".
Dude was whacked and filmed it himself from what I could tell from the entire video, set his phone down and then did what he did. Took quite a few tries to fire the lighter tho. Ciao, Cris 22 years in said AF, retired 22 now, for the oldies here, formerly Chris in Korea
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
athina 2/26/2024 1:18:23 PM (No. 1665685)
Thank you - yes he likely videoed it himself. I’m not very savvy about video-ing, my phone videos always come out terrible. : )
The video was so steady, i was confused by the whole thing.
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Darwin self-selection.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
anniebc 2/26/2024 4:18:04 PM (No. 1665780)
We're long past those days, poster 16.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/26/2024 4:18:25 PM (No. 1665781)
Burn well.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/27/2024 10:22:11 AM (No. 1666219)
Get out the weenies and the marshmallows.
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