Airman who set self on fire grew up on religious compound, had anarchist past

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : ""I got a smile on my face," Bushnell sang, "and I'm walking on air."
62% : In the wake of George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis in 2020, Bushnell told Pierpont he had started to research the history of the United States and wanted to take a stand against all state-sanctioned violence.
52% : At the January lunch, Bushnell told Pierpont that he planned to find a job that would let him make enough money to support himself while engaging in political activism on the side.
40% : Self-immolations are rare, but a number are connected to antiwar protests, perhaps most famously that of a Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, who set himself on fire in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

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