Former Olympian David Hearn arrested at Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

Dr. Ditch 🇺🇸🌍💙✊🏾🇨🇦🇲🇽52

I have pictures of the vandals on this past Tuesday caught red-handed in the act of committing this vandalism in broad daylight It looks like a terrorist organization The person they work for should definitely be held responsible for this deliberate active of vandalism * not AI generated

Captanne42

Meanwhile, hundreds of pardoned J6 insurrectionists — some of whom confessed — have gone on to commit heinous new crimes against new victims (just two more today). So, crimes are being committed by known criminals but we pick up an Olympian on this? These priorities are screwed up.

MaryM29

It’s pretty hard to vandalize something that has already been destroyed.

bobb104.bsky.social26

Makes me suspect that the proposed ballroom will also be so shabbily constructed that a single person could pull it apart with their bare hands.

dogmom13.bsky.social24

But you can shit on the floor of the Capitol building and get a pardon.

Grace RR22

If he has a Go Fund Me for his defense, I’ll contribute.

Jaye Rich15

Person touches wreckage of admin, goes to jail.

gingkotree06.bsky.social11

trump should be arrested for orchestrating this ugly mess of a formerly reflecting pool.

Local Resister11

HE WILL WIN ANY LAWSUIT THE US GOV'T PRETENDS THEY WILL SLAP HIM WITH TO 'PUNISH' HIM. He can then sue the absolute fuck out of them.

Silversalty10

Wow! Not a tourist like the Jan6 peeps.

CatCmdr19

Every MAGA tRumpublican: fuck off

Tiger-Fred6

I don't think one can vandalise garbage.

Gotaklew5

Yet, DJT can destroy the rose garden, Oval office, East Wing and front lawn of WH, and is the person who is responsible for the destruction of Reflection Pond. We need a rework on the police dept in every damn State, and teach them them f**ing law.

steveboos.bsky.social5

Yeah that will hold up in court haha. Wait till discovery when they can't prove any vandalism occurred.

jadedragon2.bsky.social5

Incredible. Arrested for touching a piece of damage in the reflecting pool after Trump raped it.

Libby Justice5

Has Trump turned all federal law enforcement officers into Gestapo goons? Seems that way. Are these people new hires (hence likely unqualified) or are they longtime employees who’ve been laying in wait to be foot soldiers for a fascist?

Mike5

Hydrogen peroxide dumped into the Reflecting Pool to treat algae growth is the primary suspected cause of the new "American Flag Blue" paint peeling off. Workers poured 12% hydrogen peroxide concentrate into the water, an oxidizing agent known to act as a paint remover. THEY vandalized the pool

William R Knecht, Ph.D.4

Don't worry. Trump will pardon him & give him $1M from the $1.8B slush fund to reward Trump allies that the Republican Congress just handed him as part of the $70B ICE funding package. Oh... but wait... the cyclist's not a Trump supporter? Forget it then.

cgogolow.bsky.social4

The joy of this regime is in the pain it can inflict.

Will Baker4

What about the guy who has actually destroyed the reflecting pool?

melrt68.bsky.social3

They are really working overtime to cover up the latest fiasco for this administration. 🙄

Pete in CT3

Because pointing out a problem is now a crime

stevengeorges.bsky.social3

Can we charge Trump with “destruction of government property”?

M B L2

Ridiculous waste of time and money. They should be ashamed and embarrassed.

BlackOwl2

I hope his lawyers sue the fuck out of this criminal administration....

❤️KathiInCali☀️2

Since when can’t somebody put their hands in the water? Meanwhile the 🤡 wasn’t arrested for *legitimate* DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY!!

diggersurvives.bsky.social2

Are you kidding me? 🍊🤡should be arrested on felony destruction of federal property!

Petal Lu Ⓥ 💚🌱💙🌎2

I hope this guy sues these people

maverick314.bsky.social2

trump is who vandalized the pool

Mary Carol2

Insanity. Trump thugs are out of control.

brettroad.bsky.social2

Trump is totally embarrassed by his Reflecting Pool failure so his cadre of enablers are protecting him further ridicule by coming down hard on tourists coming to see the disaster first hand.

OODad21

Wait until they see what Trump has done to the WH! An aerial view shows crews dismantling the UFC fighting venue on the South Lawn of the White House. The grass on the Ellipse has been completely destroyed following the UFC viewing party. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz

Jazz Is Not Dead™12

On May 4th, 1970, the Ohio National Guard murdered 4 students at Kent State University. I witnessed this event. As it unfolded I was convinced I was witnessing state sponsored murder. In all these years NOT ONE PERSON HAS BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE.

George of the PNW10

So, pick up trash get arrested.

PlayaGringo9

WTF are OK and TX officers doing outside of their jurisdictions conducting arrests in DC?

Which Side Are YOU On?6

I guess they need all those valuable blue pieces of government property so they can glue them back down. Or sell them. Or cover Trump's bald spot. Hard to say.

MissyCat6

And, yet, these guys went free... 🙄🤦 #FDT

pedernales.bsky.social5

How are the police not totally mortified by participating in such an absurdity?!

bunnellard.bsky.social4

They are desperate to find any scapegoats.

The Fishpainter4

Is it vandalism if it's floating in the water?

Myanulrich3

In his defense he was picking up litter.

KJG3

Reports are Trump wanders around the WH supergluing things to the walls so his next cognitive puzzle is gluing all the paint pieces back

Lpeterp3

How it is possible for the DC Mayor and Chief of Police to allow this kind of intimidation of people in public spaces in DC?

RFK Brain Worm Jr.3

Are people being arrested for pulling the peeling blue paint that is floating in the reflecting pool out of it? Trump and his weird mafia friend trashed the pool while stealing millions from us. Point the cops towards the WH!

chucolawyer.bsky.social2

The police have no shame. They should be embarrassed for even detaining this guy.

dirkshouse.bsky.social2

And we're all just fine with the vandalizing the White House we're getting a ballroom and I guess we're all in on it. We should be up in arms about it like the people of Albania another Trump debacle. He steam rolls us and we say flatter please. John thune is useless.

Darwin Woodka2

This is gonna go SO sideways for them

Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑4

I do feel like this is going to Streisand-effect the condition of the reflecting pool, and to his heavy-handed repression as well. We are entering the summer months when there tends to be less news and things are sleepier. Stories like this might break through more.

meta4

Charging people who stuck their hand in the water with destruction of government property is preposterous. Another losing battle for the freaks who work for Trump.

Dr Audrey Glover3

Yep…people have always been allowed to bend down and touch the water of the pool, millions of visitors have…until now

jeffedu.bsky.social2

Right – it is important to him to create and maintain the fiction that the only reason the pool looks horrendous is because of liberal sabotage Otherwise, he would have to answer for his own stupid shit

Larry3

Good to see you here. I'm in Twitter jail until Friday.

Mark C. Walton3

Dark times, full of slime

Rima I Anabtawi2

Are you saying it’s a cesspool, Julius?

Martin Quinn2

A combination of corruption and incompetence, the likes of which we've never seen before.

Injore5

This is beyond stupid. The only thing that vandalized this whole escapade is the current administration’s ignorance and incompetence. I’m 100% certain they were told this wouldn’t work out and ignored it. But sure, blame the canoeist for touching the pool. That was the problem.

Themistocles Wall🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️4

choose your fighter quite the choice of pics by @peoplemagazine.bsky.social

Apache Trout3

We should all be David Hearn tomorrow and go sit in the Reflecting Pool en masse.

Bathsheba in Blue3

Fascism has come to America.

Resist Anew 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇵🇷✌🏾3

Is this the kind of thing that a good jury or grand jury will dismiss?

DeedsMcDeeDee2

Oh, for God sake – – will it never end?

putawomanincharge.bsky.social2

He is such a dumb shit.

A.Cooper2

Total clown show. How many lawyers will be debarred trying to convict that poor fellow?

Cust0diet9

How much further will the US sink into abject stupidity. Country and its president now universal objects of derision and contempt

Robert Fischoff6

I thought this was parody. Unbelievable.

laura bishop3

This is beyond ridiculous. Who ordered park police to arrest this guy? Are they now just “following orders”? Obscene.

Hard2BGreene3

It's not just ridiculous, though it is certainly that too, it's also authoritarian propaganda. Their story is that "vandals" are actively causing the problem (and NOT their own mismanagement) so they need to charge people with "vandalism" to help promote that fiction and appear to be addressing it.

peggyok6851.bsky.social3

There's no low too low for this regime to go.

Citizen Jones2

The Green New Deal Gets its Revenge

DWKing2

Government Prosecutors really hating life right now

chlexfan.bsky.social3

I live in DC too and there was a reason it was white paint in the first place. Now we see why. It needed new plumbing not a God awful blue paint job. Now he has made it worse. 😑

noreen2

According to experts on Reddit, the contractors used pipe liner to line the pool. That's why it is separating and floating. That particular product doesn't hold up under UV light (sunlight) - not a problem inside a pipe of course but not here.

🪀Lefty Wilbury🇺🇦2

No worries! Trump’s sent the DCPD to “investigate who” ruined the $14million “restoration”🙄 bsky.app/profile/atru...