{"id":173196,"date":"2022-04-23T15:39:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T07:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=173196"},"modified":"2022-04-23T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T07:39:42","slug":"man-sets-himself-on-fire-outside-us-supreme-court-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=173196","title":{"rendered":"Man sets himself on fire outside US Supreme Court: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/04\/23\/image-57415-1650696008.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; A man set himself on fire outside the US Supreme Court on Friday, a spokeswoman said &#8212; the second incident to raise alarm near the Capitol in Washington in a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;At approximately 6:30 pm, an individual went onto the plaza in front of the Supreme Court building and set himself on fire,&#8221; Supreme Court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;This is not a public safety issue,&#8221; she said, adding that no one else was injured. No details about the person&#8217;s health, identity or motives were provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;A medical helicopter just landed near the Capitol for a medical emergency,&#8221; US Capitol Police tweeted shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The helicopter landed on the plaza and airlifted the man to a local hospital, McCabe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The area was inaccessible and under investigation on Friday.\u00a0 The incident comes days after the Capitol was evacuated when authorities sounded a threat alarm over a harmless parachute stunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 The alarm was triggered by a US Army parachute demonstration team&#8217;s flyover at a nearby baseball stadium as part of a pre-game show. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, April 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; A man set himself on fire outside the US Supreme Court on Friday, a spokeswoman said &#8212; the second incident to raise alarm near the Capitol in Washington in a week. \u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;At approximately 6:30 pm, an individual went onto the plaza in front of the Supreme Court building and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":173199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173200,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173196\/revisions\/173200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}