A person who recognized himself as a “journalist” and “visible storyteller” tried to set fireplace to himself all the way through a Saturday pro-Palestinian protest out of doors the White Area.Pictures and movies on X captured a chaotic scene as the person, regarded as Samuel Mena Jr., lit his arm in Lafayette Park, the place a lot of protesters had been accumulated. Bystanders and law enforcement officials rushed in to place out the flames as Mena screamed in ache. “I’m a journalist, and I stated it was once OK,” Mena can also be heard screaming in probably the most movies. Within the rapid aftermath of the hearth being extinguished, Mena’s arm gave the impression badly burned.On his X profile, Mena seemed to tease his participation within the protest, writing on Saturday, “I can be streaming reside from the White Area external on instagram reside in half-hour. The primary half-hour might be spent doing tech hassle capturing, and I can give a speech in an hour from now. @SamuelMenaJr.”Hours ahead of that, he tweeted, “Finish settler colonialism,” together with an image of him smiling in entrance of the Palestinian flag.In line with Mena’s profile, he’s a graduate of The Walter Cronkite College of Journalism at Arizona State College, and lately “hired as a Photojournalist for AZFamily Channels 3 and 5” as a manufacturing assistant.
