On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately before the act, which was live-streamed on Twitch, Bushnell said that he was protesting against “what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers” and declared that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide”, after which he doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire.
A Secret Service officer approached the scene, aimed a gun at Bushnell off-camera, and ordered him to “get on the ground” multiple times while a police officer yelled: “I don’t need guns, I need fire extinguishers!”
That’s about right. Someone set themself on fire so let me draw my gun and order him around.
I’m just surprised it was a cop saying they didn’t need guns…
He was white
Rest in peace
205 karma sock posting anti israeli shit, right off the bat. not suspicious at all huh. by felicia.
My old profile on kbin.social was created 2 years ago, after kbin.social went offline I made a lemmy.world account then made one on this MBin instance.
It’s very difficult to not post anti Israeli stuff if your posts are related to the middle east, or if you have a shred of empathy.
