Man Sets Himself On Fire In The U.S

This is not a scene from movie neither is it
from Borno or Iraq but the 'wealthiest
nation on earth!'
The man reportedly (and as seen from the
pictures) sat down on the lawn, then
sprinkled gasoline all over his body, and
quietly set himself on fire. He didn't flinch
or move from where he was sitting as the
fire consumed him (yes, real fire and not a
magic!)
More pictures after the cut
It happened at the National Mall Park
where tourists from around the world
usually come to with flames and smoke
from the self-immolating man were visible
from the Capitol, where some staffers
watched the scene from west facing
windows, just a day after a car chase that
ended with the shooting death of a woman
just outside the Hart Senate Office Building.
The incident reportedly happened at about
4:30 p.m. on Friday in between the Air and
Space Museum and the National Gallery.
Passing joggers rushed to the man's aid,
several ripping off their shirts to help beat
out the flames that burned 80% of his body
Passersby who saw the man rushed to his
aid, several ripping off their shirts to help
put out the flames.
"I'm not aware of any signage or any
articulation of any causes," said Lt. Pamela
Smith of the U.S. Park Police, which has
teamed up with the D.C. police department.
Tommy Hess, a tourist visiting his brother,
said he was on the Mall, "milling around,
because everything is closed due to the
shutdown."
"I never expected to see anything like
that," Hess said. "It's crazy."
Katy Scheflen, a furloughed civil rights
attorney in the Justice Department, said she
stopped because she saw "a guy with a
tripod set up."
"At that point we didn't know what was
going, maybe it was some sort of stage
protest," Scheflen said. "And then he set
himself on fire and went up in flames," she
said. "Whoosh."
The self-immolation left the man with
burns on 80% of his body. Witnesses said
his body was charred and his arms and
face were white.
"It's very shocking," she said. "It's
horrifying. Literally watching this guy go up
in flames. There was not really anything
anybody could do."
Scheflen said the presence of a mounted
camera gave her the impression "he was
aware something was about to happen.
Otherwise he was filming nothing but a guy
standing there."
"It was obviously an intentional act," she
said. "Somebody has a video of the whole
thing."
Scheflen said the man may have said
something beforehand “but it was nothing
intelligible.”
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