A CBS News photojournalist, Samuel Mena, set himself on fire at a pro-Palestinian rally near the White House on Saturday in protest of media coverage of the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
In a blog post published before the incident, Mena criticised the media for spreading “misinformation” and downplaying the civilian toll in Gaza.
Video footage from the protest shows Mena igniting his left arm before bystanders and police intervened, using water and a Palestinian keffiyeh to extinguish the flames. Witnesses reported Mena shouting, “We spread the misinformation” and “I’m a journalist and I said it was okay.”
Mena, a photojournalist with CBS affiliate KTVK/KPHO in Arizona, was not on duty at the time, and the network has since stated that he will be dismissed for violating its objectivity and neutrality policies. In his blog, Mena expressed frustration with having to frame the Gaza conflict as a battle between Israel and Hamas, emphasizing the civilian casualties, particularly children, that have resulted from the violence.
“To the ten thousand children in Gaza that have lost a limb in this conflict, I give my left arm to you,” Mena wrote in his post.
His injuries were described as minor, and he was taken to the hospital for treatment. The protest took place almost a year after a similar self-immolation by an Air Force member, Aaron Bushnell, outside the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C., where he protested U.S. support for Israel.
Identified as Samuel Mena Jr, he was captured on video lightning his left arm on fire, before protesters and police rushed to help him. pic.twitter.com/ZM4EKsaDS4
— ALBERTO GARCÍA TV (YouTube)⏬💥 (@ALBERTOJOSEGAR4) October 6, 2024
BREAKING: A man attempted to self immolate in front of the White House pic.twitter.com/IF8YAaRbij
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) October 5, 2024
What good will it do anyone if you cannot effect change when in the hospital with third degree burns?
Class action lawsuits should be filed in the U.S. charging Israel with war crimes, and the J3wi$h / Israeli businesses immediately boycotted, as the imposed, illegal and UN-Constitutional ‘Agreement not to Boycott Israel’ ignored and the Federal, State & Local Governments also sued for Constitutional Rights violations demanding the same.
Where are the MGAG Republican who are just sitting around doing NOTHING to stop Israel’s exploitations, corruptions and war crimes??? At least those who are NOT speaking out; those will NOT be voted back into office!!!!!
Now we have another storm (Hurricane Milton) which went from a Cat 2 to a Cat 5 in THREE HOURS!!!
It’s heading for another Red Republican State (that being Florida), where 200+ MPH winds are forecasted.
Another Geo-Engineered storm….weaponised to destroy the General Election, just like in North Carolina.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/violent-hurricane-175-mph-sustained-winds
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/flash-update-important-hurricane-milton-went-from-category-2-to-a-category-5-hurricane-in-3-hours
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/national-news/evacuation-highly-recommended-hurricane-milton-already-category-3
IF YOU HAVE RELATIVES, FRIENDS, ETC.LIVING IN FLORIDA, URGE THEM TO GET OUT NOW. if they can access absentee ballots or vote early in their counties, do so ASAP before the storm hits!
You’re talking a load of rubbish. Israel is defending itself from terrorists. Stop being a left wing defender of terrorism. I applaud what Israel is doing to defend itself – and us – from Islamist terrorism.
Israel instigated a False Flag attack on itself on 9 Oct
Just like the US on 911 to usher in the war on terror that was all planned and ready to go
An operation that would have taken months to prepare
IDF stood down
To pre stage initially an attack on Gaza to spark a greater regional war on Iran
Having moved the music festival closer to the border with Gaza
Most of those killed were killed by IDF
Under the Hannibal Directive
The Jews not Israel created Hamas
CIA Mossad same thing
True! Very well put!
Glad you have done your homework, unlike many who just blindly accept the Zionist MSM and imposed ‘Woke’ platitudes that are destroying the Nations of the Earth, either thru false doctrines or complacency..
https://www.unz.com/article/israel-did-9-11/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/I5B8U6RIPS64/
https://www.brighteon.com/5a30213b-396a-4964-aaac-6d54379336c2
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-lobby-cash-dominates-and-perverts-american-elections/
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/israel-security-minister-says-palestinian-prisoners-should-be-shot-in-the-head-will-pass-a-law-to-allow-it
So… you applaud the international Crime Against Humanity by endorsing the Israeli Genocide that is now past one year…
You applaud the illegal takeover of Palestine in 1948, and the subsequent efforts of the Zionist Cabal to inflict maximum harm against a defenceless group of people who, in the majority of the population, have no access to firearms in which to defend themselves, even though such is agreed to via the U.N. Right to Self Defence.
You applaud the tyrannical, dictatorial subjugation of a people who have lived in Palestine for over 2500 years.
You applaud land theft via illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land that Bedouin families have owned and farmed for 2,000 years.
You applaud the Mossad for leading the number of assassinations in the world!
Lastly, you make the assumption that ‘Eye of the Political Storm’ is a leftist.
The left wing, Bolshevik Communism and the murder of 65 million Russian Orthodox Christians was accomplished by Zionist J*ws, who, as Aleksander Solzhenytsyn observed, were all J*wish that ran the GULAG, NKVD, SMERSH, the CHEKA and lastly the KGB.
We are seeing the same modus operandi being applied to the Palestinians who, in Biblical times, were the Philistines.
F*ucking idiot
The world is full of them
Just goes to show you what type of people are actually in the MSM as reporters, techies, etc.
A Thích Quảng Đức he is not. Not even close.
BTW, there’s no such thing as a “Palestinian keffiyeh” – because there’s no such place as Palestine. It is a Balfour invention.
This is not even close to being journalism, this is just some idiot staging a photo-op so he can get likes, or clicks or retweets or whatever he thinks he needs to keep his career going. Anyone who is dumb enough to hurt themselves on purpose in the name of a cause is just proving they have mental issues, hurting yourself wont help anyone else.
Wish these people would tell us in advance so we could bring marshmallows
Maybe he wanted to be on a Pink Floyd album cover?
Reminds me of Dr Hook