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KS Toronado

(24,160 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 12:57 PM Sunday

Photo 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.
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Photo taken by the Reflecting Pool attacker & bicyclist David Hearn (Original Post) KS Toronado Sunday OP
Nazis being Nazis dem4decades Sunday #1
Get their names and badge numbers... Moostache Monday #37
One can wish, he'll pardon every last brown shirt. dem4decades Monday #38
Conviction and "Full Freight" are mutually exclusive here... Moostache Monday #39
Soon enough arrests will be made if u walk by one of the trump banners on one of the federal buildings and NoMoreRepugs Sunday #2
The Fascists are starting up the NO FREE SPEECH agenda. KS Toronado Sunday #4
Or forget a Heil Trump Bengus81 Sunday #16
Exactly. Richard58 Sunday #23
Arrested (and others) to create the VANDALS 💩 that they've fully bought into already underpants Sunday #3
Shouldn't Trump be arrested for vandalizing the reflecting pool? Jvp Sunday #11
The pool, the east wing and the white house lawn Randomthought Sunday #18
MSM lets Trump claim terrorists, not him, made the pond turn green. Festivito Sunday #13
A camera. That's the dead giveaway. NT mahatmakanejeeves Sunday #5
This is far worse than cameras at Abu Ghraib. Probatim Sunday #15
"It's witchcraft! We have laws against that!" struggle4progress Sunday #6
Hope he's okay, glad he was released and not 'disappeared.' joanbarnes Sunday #7
Great photo. With a bit of touchup and cropping, he could sell prints of that. (n/t) thesquanderer Sunday #8
He could enter next month's DU photo contest displacedvermoter Sunday #28
Turn the really large picture of the entire pool with the left side down.... ashredux Sunday #9
Classic delamination. I worked in the spa industry while in college and I'm very familiar with it. That it occurred artemisia1 Sunday #10
another poster with some experience echoes your view and was inclined to think harumph Sunday #17
The hysteria in the Trump regime taints everyone who is involved with it. Martin68 Sunday #12
Id be embarrassed to be a Capital cop right now. BradBo Sunday #14
David Hearn was arrested by the U.S. Park Police... reACTIONary Sunday #24
Wow, TY, KS! I've been very interested in Cha Sunday #19
Such BS and a waste of taxpayers dollars BeneteauBum Sunday #20
I'm rather amazed that any Capital Police orangecrush Sunday #21
When surrounding yourself with yes-men, it must run downhill from there, KS Toronado Sunday #22
David Hearn was arrested by the U.S. Park Police reACTIONary Sunday #25
Thank you orangecrush Sunday #26
"Eeeek! That photo is a libelous pornographic act of vandalism and espionage!" struggle4progress Sunday #27
Remediation of the green pool Aussie105 Sunday #29
An overweight, syphilitic baby raping draft-dodger RVN VET71 Sunday #30
I'm expecting the Brown Shirts next. demosincebirth Monday #31
They're still wearing camo, but I suspect that's about to change. KS Toronado Monday #32
We already have them. OldBaldy1701E Monday #33
I'd love for his defense purr-rat beauty Monday #34
I hope there are lawyers looking into this for him to see if there is a civil lawsuit possible. SamuelAdams Monday #35
In Chicago, every St Paddy's Day, Zackzzzz Monday #36

Moostache

(11,347 posts)
37. Get their names and badge numbers...
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 11:46 AM
Monday

Once the Don is dead, the button men are going to pay full freight on their crimes and actions in his service.

Moostache

(11,347 posts)
39. Conviction and "Full Freight" are mutually exclusive here...
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 01:47 PM
Monday

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)
2. Soon enough arrests will be made if u walk by one of the trump banners on one of the federal buildings and
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 01:03 PM
Sunday

and flip it the bird.

Jvp

(100 posts)
11. Shouldn't Trump be arrested for vandalizing the reflecting pool?
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 02:21 PM
Sunday

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?

Probatim

(3,304 posts)
15. This is far worse than cameras at Abu Ghraib.
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 03:15 PM
Sunday

Far worse.

Not to make light of torture, but I sort of miss Donald Rumsfeld.

joanbarnes

(2,150 posts)
7. Hope he's okay, glad he was released and not 'disappeared.'
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 02:09 PM
Sunday

The photo is strangely haunting, beautiful and unique!

ashredux

(2,985 posts)
9. Turn the really large picture of the entire pool with the left side down....
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 02:18 PM
Sunday

It’s starting to look like an outline of an elephant😂

artemisia1

(1,925 posts)
10. Classic delamination. I worked in the spa industry while in college and I'm very familiar with it. That it occurred
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 02:20 PM
Sunday

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)
17. another poster with some experience echoes your view and was inclined to think
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 03:22 PM
Sunday

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.

Cha

(321,505 posts)
19. Wow, TY, KS! I've been very interested in
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:52 PM
Sunday

David Hean's encounter with the "reflecting pool".

I read this article on ESPN yesterday.

Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, Maryland, owned a company that made composite used to build watercraft. He said he stopped by the pool during his 64-mile bike ride Friday to see what was going on.

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!

Aussie105

(8,334 posts)
29. Remediation of the green pool
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 09:42 PM
Sunday

will cost twice as much as the original slap-dash cheapskate incompetent job.

RVN VET71

(3,235 posts)
30. An overweight, syphilitic baby raping draft-dodger
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 11:21 PM
Sunday

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.

SamuelAdams

(337 posts)
35. I hope there are lawyers looking into this for him to see if there is a civil lawsuit possible.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 10:30 AM
Monday

It probably doesn't qualify as unlawful arrest since he was only detained but maybe a lawyer could figure something out.

Zackzzzz

(415 posts)
36. In Chicago, every St Paddy's Day,
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 11:23 AM
Monday

They dye the river a beautiful 'emerald' green.
Wouldn't dye have been simpler?

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