A protester with a Tibetan flag set himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan on Thursday evening, according to sources.<\/p>\n
The man was captured on UN surveillance footage planting the flag on a sidewalk at East 43rd Street and First Avenue before self-immolating around 7 p.m., the sources said.<\/p>\n
An apparent protester set himself on fire outside New York City\u2019s United Nations headquarters on Thursday. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n
The incident occurred at 42nd Street and First Avenue, where an NYPD officer is seen holding a sign reading \u201cChina Out of Tibet.\u201d William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n
Sources said the man lit himself on fire around 7 p.m. David Deturris\/ for NY Post<\/p>\n
The protester was taken to Bellevue Hospital in grave condition. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n
The Tibet flag was still on display about an hour after the shocking incident occurred. William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in grave condition.<\/p>\n
The flag was still in place about an hour after the shocking display as cops investigated the scene.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A protester with a Tibetan flag set himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,56,63,65,64,21401,2271,58],"class_list":["post-285475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-tibet","tag-united-nations","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}