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2024-02-26 Home Front: WoT

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, where America gets its news] 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.

Unfortunately, not everyone who volunteers to wear the uniform is is wise and insightful. A few are idiots or mentally ill.

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'.

Aren’t y’all supposed to avoid wearing the uniform when engaging in politics?

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!'

Authorities responded to the embassy around 1 p.m. on Sunday and found the man with burn injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department told DailyMail.com.

He was taken to the hospital by DC Fire and EMS with 'critical and life-threatening injuries.'

A spokesperson for the US Air Force confirmed to Task & Purpose that the man in uniform is an active-duty airman. The airman’s identity has not been confirmed.

Identified as Aaron Bushnell, 25, USAF active duty in the IT department. Thanks to Frank G and M. Murcek for the links in comments below.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top
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#1 I hope his CO hopes he dies.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-26 01:52|| 2024-02-26 01:52|| Front Page Top

Should there be others like him.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-26 05:08|| 2024-02-26 05:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ...I've seen a few posts elsewhere that indicate this guy is an enlisted IT type, who was also on his way out - end of enlistment.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-02-26 06:40|| 2024-02-26 06:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Not line of duty.

BTW, far more people in this country have died of the 'jab' than in Gaza.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-26 07:22|| 2024-02-26 07:22|| Front Page Top

Posted by DarthVader 2024-02-26 08:00|| 2024-02-26 08:00|| Front Page Top

#6

Good he eliminated himself from the Gene Pool.

But looking further down the road.
What if he had access to USAF weapons or planes?

Doesn't the DOD still do annual Mental Health evaluations, or was that tossed out with the now Pronoun mandate.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-02-26 08:03|| 2024-02-26 08:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Wonder if SGLI covers this

Posted by Kojo Bumble5579 2024-02-26 09:32|| 2024-02-26 09:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Almost 4 months after being rescued from Hamas captivity, Ori Magidish returns to service

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-26 09:42|| 2024-02-26 09:42|| Front Page Top

#9 The protester was identified on Sunday by the independent journalist Talia Jane as Aaron Bushnell, 25, an active-duty service member of the US Air Force, who, from a public LinkedIn profile, appeared to work in the service’s IT department.

Late Sunday night, Jane reported that Bushnell had succumbed to the wounds sustained in the self-immolation.

Posted by Frank G 2024-02-26 10:48|| 2024-02-26 10:48|| Front Page Top

#10 He made an ash of himself.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-02-26 11:00|| 2024-02-26 11:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Well, he'll be warm the rest of his life. Pratchett was right.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-02-26 11:40|| 2024-02-26 11:40|| Front Page Top

#12 has died...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-26 11:47|| 2024-02-26 11:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Amazing how this "news" just went on by.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-02-26 12:40|| 2024-02-26 12:40|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Perhaps because with today's "everyday crazy" this kinda thing just comes with the scenery.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-02-26 12:59|| 2024-02-26 12:59|| Front Page Top

#15 He may be a nutter, but he gets credit for having (charred) skin in the game.

Snark O'The Day

Posted by SteveS 2024-02-26 13:25|| 2024-02-26 13:25|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ SOTD

Posted by Frank G 2024-02-26 13:48|| 2024-02-26 13:48|| Front Page Top

#17 SOTD grammar error exemption rule..."may have been" is the correct verb configuration/sarc off

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-26 15:03|| 2024-02-26 15:03|| Front Page Top

#18 All this to unpack, and quality snark, and I'm over here like, was it really a him?

Not snark, but definitely Observation of the Day (OOTD)

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-26 15:07|| 2024-02-26 15:07|| Front Page Top

#19 Newsweek article includes Aaron Bushnell’s final post: “What would I do if I was alive during slavery?”
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, "What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?" The answer is, you're doing it.

The page is gone, but we have screenshots. Israel shut it down.

https://www.newsweek.com/aaron-bushnell-final-message-fire-israeli-embassy-washington-dc-1873242v

Posted by Woozle Glamp3497 2024-02-26 18:01|| 2024-02-26 18:01|| Front Page Top

#20 Hey, Herb, you're obviously a well-informed, intelligent observer, so help us out here. What's your good faith guesstimate of casualties so far?

Posted by Caesar Panda5736 2024-02-26 19:02|| 2024-02-26 19:02|| Front Page Top

#21 In Gaza, I mean... though if you wanna weigh in on the self-immolati9n gender breakdown, that'd be cool, too.

Posted by Caesar Panda5736 2024-02-26 19:07|| 2024-02-26 19:07|| Front Page Top

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