Posted on 02/26/2024 6:39:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
US Air Force member Aaron Bushnell has died from his injuries after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, an official confirmed on Monday.
A US Air Force spokesperson confirmed to The Post that 25-year-old Bushnell died overnight to The Post, though she did not officially name him citing the ongoing notification of next of kin.
Officials were still contacting family members Monday and will not officially announce his death until 24 hours after that is complete, the Air Force representative said.
A man wearing a US Air Force uniform reportedly set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy
There was no immediate word on Bushnell’s cause of death.
A harrowing video livestreamed on Twitch on Sunday afternoon appeared to show the serviceman dressed in uniform standing in front of the embassy and identifying himself as a member of the US Air Force.
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” Bushnell reportedly said, before setting himself ablaze and repeatedly crying out “Free Palestine.”
Just hours before his deadly act of self-immolation, Bushnell posted a final message on Facebook.
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Most normal people are trying to avoid the US military now, I think. But the crazies fit right in with the current military culture.
The current military culture is a toxic as petri dish growing botulism.
Good riddance.
What a brainwashed, mentally disturbed tard.
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He didn’t think it out very well
Gee, I wonder if the self-immolation had anything to do with this.
Well, now he is an ex tard. 😆🤗😝😀
He chose... poorly.
There was a period of time when it was quite popular among Buddhist monks,
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311908.2019.1678556
The Air Force is better off!!!
Ummm, okay.
😆😀🤗 Ya can’t make this stuff up, can ya?
I guess nobody told him: The Palestinians have been claiming genocide longer than he's been alive yet the Palestinian population has been growing by 25% every 10 years since 1993.
OOPS!
In 2022 somebody did it to
protest climate change. Wynn Bruce, 50,
climate change activist and Buddhist,
on Earth Day
No one noticed that he had a mental problem before he offed himself? (Yes I know, our new military celebrates mental illness, and acts like nothing is wrong or dangerous about mental illness-,maybe now they will perhaps, maybe start to at least wonder if celebrating mental illness is the cats meow that they thought it was?)
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