An anti-Israel protester, recognized as Samuel Mena Jr, lit himself on fireplace outdoors of the White Home throughout an anti-Israel protest on Saturday night.
In images and movies of the incident, Mena Jr, is seen screaming in ache as he raises his left arm engulfed in ache and
A number of bystanders rished to his support, dousing him with water and beating out the flames with items of clothes.
Mena screamed about ‘misinformation’ and introduced that he’s a journalist.
Jessica Costescu from Free Beacon captured the harrowing incident and its aftermath.
Warning graphic:
BREAKING: A person tried to self immolate in entrance of the White Home pic.twitter.com/IF8YAaRbij
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) October 5, 2024
Journalist Samuel Mena self-immolated at the moment by lighting his left arm on fireplace throughout a protest for Palestine outdoors of the White Home on sixteenth Road at Freedom Plaza. Police doused him with water and efficiently extinguished the flames. He was taken away in an ambulance shortly… pic.twitter.com/fK7g3ZLfaW
— Kaitlin Newman (@KaitlinObscura) October 6, 2024
The New York Put up experiences:
In a prolonged weblog posted to his web site earlier than the incident on Saturday, Mena questioned the media’s objectivity in its protection of the struggle in Gaza.
“To the ten thousand youngsters in Gaza which have misplaced a limb on this battle, I give my left arm to you,” he wrote. “I pray my voice was in a position to increase up yours, and that your smiles by no means disappear.”
The journalist, a graduate of Arizona State College’s Walter Cronkite College of Journalism, had spent the final two years working for native CBS affiliate AZFamily, based on his LinkedIn profile.
Mena lit himself on fireplace within the 800 block of sixteenth Road simply outdoors of the White Home round 5:45 p.m., based on the Washington DC Metropolitan Police.
An account on X that seems to be Mena’s has an image of him standing in entrance of a Palestinian flag with textual content of the genocidal phrase, “From the river to the ocean” above his picture. One publish echoes the pro-Hamas’ crowd to “finish settler colonialism.”
He posted a notice Saturday morning annoucning he be live-streaming outdoors of the White Home later within the day.
I will probably be streaming reside from the White Home exterior on instagram reside in half-hour. The primary half-hour will probably be spent doing tech bother taking pictures, and I’ll give a speech in an hour from now. @SamuelMenaJr
— Sam Mena Jr ️⚧️ (@SamuelMenaJr) October 5, 2024
He posted a notice Saturday morning saying he can be live-streaming outdoors of the White Home later within the day.
