A man has set himself on fire near the White House today, he was caught on video appearing to calmly stroll through a park before cops extinguished the flames.
Witnesses saw the man erupt into a bright orange fireball at the Ellipse which is a tourist-filled park that sits north of the Washington Monument.
Video shot by Berzins and posted to Twitter by her father shows the man, clad in black pants, covered head to toe in flames as he takes a slow walk across the grass.
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