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White House on lockdown: Man ‘sets himself on fire’ - Secret Service scrambled
www.express.co.uk ^ | PUBLISHED: 20:21, Fri, Apr 12, 2019 | UPDATED: 20:25, Fri, Apr 12, 2019 | by Joey Millar

Posted on 04/12/2019 12:32:28 PM PDT by Red Badger

THE WHITE House is in lockdown after a man attempted to set himself on fire, a New York Times reporter has claimed.

Photos taken at the scene show security personnel tackling a person on the ground. Police and amublance crews are in attendance.

Nicholas Kristof, a columnist with the New York Times, said: “Someone apparently set himself on fire in front of the White House just now. I was coming out of the West Wing, and the Sevret Service isn’t letting anyone out onto Pennsylvania Ave. They say there are also suspicious packages.

“The whole area in front of the White House is now secured. Nobody coming in, and we aren’t allowed out.”

The Secret Service said on Twitter: “ALERT: Secret Service personnel are responding to a police/medical incident on Pennsylvania Ave. along the @WhiteHouse North Fence Line.”

This is a breaking story, more to follow...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: braking; fire; flames; flamingliberal; kristoff; localnews; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorktimes; nicholaskristof; nicholaskristoff; scooter; suspiciouspackages; tds; theleft; violence; yourefired
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To: dead

I actually saw the car in the background. It’s sitting in a Buddhist temple in Vietnam as a monument to the monk who set himself on fire.


61 posted on 04/12/2019 12:49:45 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Red Badger

Self-immolation is soooooo 60s. It’s 2019, at least be original.


62 posted on 04/12/2019 12:50:09 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: no-to-illegals
Couldn't have been PIAPS.

That would have been a huge fire and it would still be burning.

Grease fires are hard to put out.

63 posted on 04/12/2019 12:52:02 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Red Badger

another flaming libtard thinks he’s gonna get his “important”voice heard and heeded. Get a JOB libtard. And a frickin’ CLUE.


64 posted on 04/12/2019 12:52:13 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: rdl6989

Just made a new tagline.


65 posted on 04/12/2019 12:52:17 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“...Imagine how much better off the country would be if all liberals did this to themselves, and succeeded!!...”
It would be absolutely marvelous!!! I’d contribute several gallons to the “cause”.


66 posted on 04/12/2019 12:52:35 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Shadow44

Some people never left the 60’s..................


68 posted on 04/12/2019 12:54:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger
It's like nude beaches.

It's never the people you want to see set themselves on fire who set themselves on fire.

If you follow my drift.

69 posted on 04/12/2019 12:54:40 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: dp0622
I hope he’s dead. One less D vote.

That's no guarantee...............

70 posted on 04/12/2019 12:55:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: billorites

Yep, been there, done that.................


71 posted on 04/12/2019 12:56:16 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Eddie01

Maybe he didn’t see the no smoking sign


72 posted on 04/12/2019 12:56:27 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Red Badger

This is an opportunity! a few posts on the right boards...and wala! The New Lefty “Set Yourself on Fire” challenge!


73 posted on 04/12/2019 12:58:29 PM PDT by Cyclops08
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To: skimbell

Yer right .... facepalm to forehead


74 posted on 04/12/2019 12:59:02 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: Red Badger

Was self-immolation in protest the goal, or was it a puff on the crack pipe gone horribly wrong?

I heard on the news that his jacket caught fire, but he wasn’t badly injured enough to go to the hospital, and was arrested instead.

People seriously bent on making a statement through self-immolation soak themselves in an accelerant, usually gasoline.


75 posted on 04/12/2019 12:59:12 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Red Badger

BEFORE everyone jokes...this man was in a scooter, maybe paralyzed and could have been a veteran protesting.
I would wait and see.


76 posted on 04/12/2019 1:02:05 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie ( BEST ELECTION EVER....MAGA)
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To: rdl6989

Wait until Trump gets re-elected in 2020. You ain’t seen nothing yet.


77 posted on 04/12/2019 1:02:33 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Red Badger
I think I need help. Somewhere deep in my mind this was what was read:

White House on lockdown: Man ‘sets himself on fire’ - Secret Service scrambled across lawn to set up Go-Pros.

78 posted on 04/12/2019 1:03:02 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Forward to the glorious world of next Tuesday !)
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To: Eddie01

Wait, wait, wait...... Okay I got it now
It’s stop, drop, and ROTFLMAO
Yeah! That’s the ticket


79 posted on 04/12/2019 1:03:14 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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Sad really The Comcast & CNN scumbags provided the fuel Hilarious thread nonetheless 🤣
80 posted on 04/12/2019 1:05:44 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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