A three-time Olympian canoeist was arrested for allegedly vandalizing President Donald Trump‘s shining new Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, but the athlete has claimed he merely touched it.
David Hearn, 67, was arrested by Park Police officers on Friday for a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property after he said he simply touched the liner of the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial, The Washington Post reported.
He told the outlet that he rode past the memorial on a 52-mile bike ride when he noticed the liner was detached, and reached down to feel it.
‘I didn’t vandalize anything. I didn’t destroy
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