People: Former Olympian David Hearn Arrested for Touching the Reflecting Pool amid Trump's Claims of Vandalism

[pat_k]

When People magazine does a better job constructing a headline than other so-called "news" outlets, it sure says something out the state of journalism.

https://people.com/former-olympian-david-hearn-arrested-for-touching-reflecting-pool-amid-trumps-claims-of-vandalism-12003496

[sakabatou]

1. Dump wants scapegoats

[Deuxcents]

2. A couple of comments about this bull💩..

There are most likely hundreds of videos of people taking pieces of floating debris..
This arrest will go nowhere but will inconvenience and cost the guy lots of wasted time and money
I’d love to see thousands of people come to the pool tomorrow, peacefully, of course, but in solidarity for this person having to go this charade
When will TSF put a fence around the pool tomorrow keep people out?

That’ll do for now..

[BadgerMom]

3. If ever pro bono work should be done, it's for Hearn.

[Deuxcents]

4. Great idea and I hope it happens.

[AverageOldGuy]

5. This is in DC

The case -- if it continues -- will come before Jean Pirro whom Trump appointed as the US Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Judge Boxwine Pirro does not exactly have a winning record in her position. I don't know any details, but a large percentage of the cases prosecutors have brought before her have been thrown out by juries, both grand juries who refuse to indict and trial juries who refuse to convict.

This case likely will come before Judge Boxwine Pirro and will be laughed out of court by a grand jury.

[hatrack]

12. No Pete, No Fred, No Teddy . . .

And most definitely No Bill.

[niyad]

6. Don't forget the NatGuard and metro police are now there.

[Deuxcents]

7. I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this.

[Cha]

8. TY pat-k.. I couldn't read

what People had to say. My Zoom has to be up high so I can read it, and the video is in the way.

But I got this from ESPN:

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

[in2herbs]

9. He should demand a jury trial and demand that F45 appear to back up his claim of vandalism. nt

[Wiz Imp]

15. It will never see a courtroom.

[Seinan Sensei]

10. So if someone does a "Frottage" (texture rubbing) on the Vietnam War Memorial

… that could be vandalism?
They touched it.
They didn’t take-away anything.
They left it just like they found it.

[GiqueCee]

11. And, thus, the staggering stupidity...

... of EVERYTHING even remotely related to the the Trump regime is laid bare for all the world to see, and ain't nuthin' Trump's shit-brained sycophants ca do to spin it. Ah, the schadenfreude is more delicious than truffles.

[B.See]

13. Once again, tRump is looking for scapegoats

to cover for his own incompetence. Yeah, It was VANDALIZED alright. By YOU, chump.

Next he'll be arresting people for gazing at it too sternly. Maybe he can tarp over THAT.

Jackass.

[CanonRay]

14. This will be quickly dismissed

[purr-rat beauty]

16. Now do the vandalism of the Kennedy Center

[Sparkly]

17. Of course, the nitwit in chief had his motorcade

drive over the surface of the reflecting pool. No doubt that did wonders for it.