More Reflecting Pool Arrests, and What a Local News Team Saw Raises Eyebrows

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There's more news on what's been happening at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. We reported how one man had been arrested. That man was a former Olympian who was charged with destruction of property. He denied the alleged charges and said he had only tried to touch a piece of the paint, but he claimed he hadn't damaged anything.

That wasn't all.

At least five people have been arrested at the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington, DC amid federal allegations of vandalism at the site, according to law enforcement.
Members of a DC task force, a group of federal and local law enforcement officials, made five arrests for destruction of government property at the Reflecting Pool between June 17 and June 21, Brady McCarron, a spokesperson for the United States Marshals Service, told USA TODAY.

The Metropolitan Police Department said they had not been involved in the arrests.

The local news WUSA9 reported on other incidents that their reporters saw last week.

This week, large chunks and strips of paint began appearing on the surface of the shallow water on the National Mall.
Reporters from WUSA9 this week witnessed numerous passers-by prying strips of paint or surfacing from the pool, some using kitchen tongs.

So, for any leftists pushing stories about there not being any vandalism, that would seem to settle the question.

On top of that, the "pro-algae" brigade that my colleague Jennifer Oliver O'Connell reported on is still out, encouraging the algae. You can see in a video on X, one of the people yelling at National Guard members for standing guard over the Reflecting Pool. They were doing their best to ignore her ranting. Then there was another one, actually speaking to the algae, encouraging it, and cheering it on in this video on X. "Everybody is proud of you!" the activist said to the algae. "You are single-handedly doing more to fight fascism than any American has! Yeah, algae!"

These "activists" don't seem to get the irony. They're yelling about Americans defending a national monument. But they're so obsessed with being against President Donald Trump that they're the ones doing this foolish stuff. Which one looks worse to most Americans? Hint: it isn't the National Guard. The activists don't seem to get that this is our Pool - we should all want it to be in good condition.

President Trump's Marine One appeared to go right by the Reflecting Pool as he flew back to Joint Base Andrews on Sunday, as this video on X shows. He later appeared to confirm he'd gone over, posting on Truth Social that he had "just inspected it" and work would begin to repair it.

Francois Rivard, vice president of Rhino Linings, the company involved in some of the work on the pool, said the repair would not be done by July 4. But he said the pool remains leak-proof, that the stripping "appears to be the outer blue layer that’s purely for aesthetics."

He said they would be looking at whether it was "manual intervention that made those few places peel" or "the chemical composition in the water." But either way, he said it wasn't "problematic" as the work they did to make the Pool leak-proof was fine.

As we reported, the Pool had been leaking up to 45,000 gallons a day. That was the main reason President Trump was addressing the problem.

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