Protester Hospitalized After Trying to Light Himself on Fire Outside Trump's D.C. Hotel
Source: Mediaite
by Ken Meyer | 9:31 am, January 18th, 2017
A California man has been hospitalized with burn injuries after an attempt to set himself ablaze in protest of Donald Trump‘s incoming presidency.
The D.C. fire department and emergency services were outside of Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, after a man started a fire across the street. The man, who remains unnamed at this time, told reporters that he planned on committing self-immolation in order to protest Trump.
“We have a dictator that has been elected,” the man said to WRC-TV. When asked to explain himself, the man said he did it in order to “protest the fact that we’ve elected somebody completely incapable of respecting the constitution of the United States.”
Trump’s inauguration on Friday is likely to be protested by his critics, and dozens of Congressional Democrats have said that they will not attend the ceremony.
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