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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhoto taken by the Reflecting Pool attacker & bicyclist David Hearn

This is the photo taken by David Hearn minutes before his arrest, a partially detached piece of the Reflecting Pool liner is visible. The top of Hearn's shoe can be seen at the bottom of the photo.
Hearn is a three-time Olympian who competed in the canoe slalom. He won two world championships in whitewater racing before retiring from active competition in 2002.
On Friday, Hearn said he was detained for almost five hours at a Park Police facility on Hains Point before being released shortly after 9 p.m. He was reunited with his bike and rode home.
Law enforcement seems very willing to carry out even Trump's most petty illegal acts of intimidation.
dem4decades
(14,645 posts)Moostache
(11,347 posts)Once the Don is dead, the button men are going to pay full freight on their crimes and actions in his service.
dem4decades
(14,645 posts)Moostache
(11,347 posts)They may avoid prison, but when the veneer of service to the 'don' is removed, these people will still needs jobs and support. They may believe that the GOP will provide that for them, but they are dead ass wrong. They may get pardons, but what they won't ever get back is admission to polite society and gainful employment opportunities.
They are going to pay for their sins. One way or another, this stench will NEVER wash clean again. Ever.
NoMoreRepugs
(12,315 posts)and flip it the bird.
KS Toronado
(24,160 posts)Bengus81
(10,547 posts)Richard58
(251 posts)They will call it an "act of domestic terrorism."
underpants
(197,777 posts)
Jvp
(100 posts)Also, what about the owner of GreenWater, the company that won the no bid contract? Shouldn't they be held accountable for the vandalizing? Shouldn't they return large sums of money for poor inferior work?
Randomthought
(1,092 posts)All vandalized by criminal.
Festivito
(13,951 posts)All excused now.
mahatmakanejeeves
(71,533 posts)Probatim
(3,304 posts)Far worse.
Not to make light of torture, but I sort of miss Donald Rumsfeld.
struggle4progress
(127,130 posts)joanbarnes
(2,150 posts)The photo is strangely haunting, beautiful and unique!
thesquanderer
(13,168 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,229 posts)as the theme is going to be "Two Colors"?
ashredux
(2,985 posts)Its starting to look like an outline of an elephant😂
artemisia1
(1,925 posts)without large, quick temperature changes tells me just how inept a job was done. Chemicals can exacerbate delamination, but the root causes is poor application and/or preparation of the underlying material.
harumph
(3,523 posts)they didn't give enough time for the concrete to dry out completely before applying the coats. I know wood has obviously different properties than concrete, but I know you shouldn't apply coatings of any kind over saturated wood, because when the moisture gasses out, it delaminates the paint. I would think similar principles apply. Having done a little fact finding, it seems the pool should have been drained, fully cleaned, fully dried, etched, vacuumed out, and only then should the under-sealer and epoxy have been applied. Moreover, the feeder pipes should have been shocked and purged prior to refilling. It's like everything the SOB touches - half assed. No doubt the contractor laughed all the way to the bank.
Martin68
(28,281 posts)BradBo
(1,078 posts)reACTIONary
(7,413 posts)... Not the capitol police.
Cha
(321,505 posts)David Hean's encounter with the "reflecting pool".
I read this article on ESPN yesterday.
Hearn told The Associated Press that he reached into the pool because he wanted to examine the peeling new coating. He said he briefly touched a chunk that was still attached to the side of the pool, then let go shortly after a park worker told him to.
But, Hearn said, he was then detained by National Guard troops and Park Police for five hours before being released Friday night.
"I'm a curious citizen," Hearn said in a telephone interview. "I reached down to see what it felt like. It was very rubbery."
I hope all this exposes the faulty work the PEDO's contractor did.
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/49130363/ex-olympian-arrested-allegedly-vandalizing-reflecting-pool
I hope David Hearn exposes PEDO's Lies!
BeneteauBum
(945 posts)Ridiculous
Peace ☮️
orangecrush
(31,813 posts)Would do his bidding after what he has done.
KS Toronado
(24,160 posts)reACTIONary
(7,413 posts)not DC police.
orangecrush
(31,813 posts)I understand now
struggle4progress
(127,130 posts)Aussie105
(8,334 posts)will cost twice as much as the original slap-dash cheapskate incompetent job.
RVN VET71
(3,235 posts)who has nothing left in his life to live for save attacking and terrorizing people and who, ultimately, will stop at nothing to erase and eliminate not just his actual enemies but anyone who fails to genuflect when he waddles by with a pant load of excrement dripping down his leg and onto his shoes.
But there's good news. He is, after all, 80 years old. I don't know how much longer he has before we can watch there's a State funeral procession down Pennsylvania Avenue-- a well-attended one whose respectful mourning silence will be broken by the sound of a thousand corks popping from a thousand bottles of champagne and cheers breaking out on the avenue and in the bars in D.C. where it will be like St. Paddy's Day, with crowds out the door and people jostling for a view of the TV's behind the bar, hoping that the coffin will fall off the funeral caisson and onto the street, frightening the escorting horses who, restrained by their riders from galloping away in panic, trample the cadaver repeatedly, crushing it beneath their hooves to the horror of none of the celebrants.
What a day that will be indeed! But as Yogi admonished us: it ain't over 'til it's over. Among those who would be his successor there are less charismatic but equally evil people. America, on that day, must not let its guard down when Freedom is so close to being restored here.
demosincebirth
(12,843 posts)KS Toronado
(24,160 posts)
OldBaldy1701E
(11,786 posts)
He just has not used them in that exact manner.
Yet.
purr-rat beauty
(1,621 posts)To point out MAGA's recent destruction of...
...well, almost everything
SamuelAdams
(337 posts)It probably doesn't qualify as unlawful arrest since he was only detained but maybe a lawyer could figure something out.
Zackzzzz
(415 posts)They dye the river a beautiful 'emerald' green.
Wouldn't dye have been simpler?