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Holy shit, an active duty American soldier set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. Before he set himself on fire he introduced himself as "an active duty member of the U.S. Airforce I will no longer be complicit in genocide." Then repeated "free Palestine" while he was on fire. He did it while wearing his duty uniform too. There is footage of the act. I don't know how I feel about posting images of a man's self-immolation but it's such an unprecedented action to be almost unbelievable without visual evidence. Even with the several self-immolations that occurred on American soil during the Vietnam and Iraq wars, I don't think I can point to one undertaken by an active duty soldier. I will instead link to the Twitter post where it was first made public under the "more" cut below. It goes without saying that the image is graphic.

Jesus, I just saw this on Twitter. I'm shocked the reporter even put up that one screencap. It may not show the damage he'll suffer moments later, but it's so disturbing to see.

This doesn't show the entire tweet thread so I want to explicitly emphasize that the cops DREW THEIR GUNS ON A BURNING MAN and the one guy who finally started spraying him with a fire extinguisher had to yell, "I don't need more guns I need fire extinguishers" because the cops were still just standing their with weapons drawn.