D.C. police confirmed the man was pronounced dead at a hospital Sunday night and identified him as 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell of San Antonio.
U.S. Secret Service vehicles block access to a street leading to the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Sunday. outside the Israeli Embassy on Sunday to protest U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza has died, a D.C. police spokesman said Monday morning.
In the video, which is just over three minutes long, Bushnell says he does not want to be “complicit in genocide.” As he approaches the embassy, a person can be heard saying, “Hi, sir, can I help you?” as Bushnell approaches the gate to the embassy. About 12 seconds later — as a person again asks, “Can I help you, sir?” — Bushnell “doused himself with an unidentified liquid and set himself on fire,” the police report says.
In December, a woman self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta. She had a Palestinian flag with her, authorities said at the time.Bushnell’s fatal protest turned him into an instant folk hero among anti-war and pro-Palestinian activists. Within Arab circles, especially, the symbolism of a self-immolation is potent — a Tunisian fruit vendor who burned himself to death in 2011 set off pro-democracy rebellions that toppled dictators and upended the Middle East.
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