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Former U.S. Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn was charged with destruction of property after his arrest last month at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
Hearn, a former U.S. Olympic canoeist, was charged Thursday in Washington Superior Court following the June 19 incident.
Hearn denied damaging the newly renovated reflecting pool, saying he stopped during a bike ride and simply touched a piece of the peeling blue covering “to satisfy my curiosity as a citizen.”
The indictment comes after several people were arrested or cited in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool, which was the subject of a more than $14 million rehabilitation project under President Donald Trump.
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Former U.S. Olympic athlete David Hearn has been charged with alleged vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. (David Madison/Getty Images)
The president previously blamed vandals for the damage to the pool, which features a blue coating he calls “American flag blue.”
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