{"id":101941,"date":"2026-10-01T16:13:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/reflecting-pool-vandalism-charges-against-olympic-canoeist-david-hearn-permanently-dismissed\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:13:36","slug":"reflecting-pool-vandalism-charges-against-olympic-canoeist-david-hearn-permanently-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/reflecting-pool-vandalism-charges-against-olympic-canoeist-david-hearn-permanently-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting Pool vandalism charges against Olympic canoeist David Hearn permanently dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A Washington, D.C., judge permanently dismissed the criminal indictment against U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn Thursday, ending a months-long saga around allegations of vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the government admitted to a &#8220;botched&#8221; construction job in recent renovations.<\/p>\n<p>In August, federal prosecutors asked Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman to dismiss the criminal indictment against Hearn, who had been <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/david-hearn-charged-destruction-of-property-reflecting-pool-vandalism\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">charged <\/a><\/span>with felony destruction of government property. He was accused of causing more than $1,000 in damage to the sealant that was installed last summer at the bottom of the Reflecting Pool.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hearn pleaded not guilty to the charges, saying he had stopped by the pool in July while on a 64-mile bike ride through the nation&#8217;s capital. He said he was arrested after he reached down into the pool and was detained for five hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The project to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-sealant-rips-algae-trump\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">renovate<\/a><\/span> the pool has been championed by President Trump, who in April <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-resurfacing-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">launched<\/a><\/span> an effort to address the pool&#8217;s &#8220;terrible&#8221; condition, part of a slate of spring cleaning projects in Washington, D.C., ahead of the nation&#8217;s 250th birthday. He had the pool&#8217;s stone flooring coated with a sealant he called the &#8220;latest and greatest filament&#8221; and an &#8220;industrial-grade&#8221; variation of swimming pool liner. He told reporters he personally chose the sealant&#8217;s color: &#8220;American Flag Blue.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in D.C. admitted in court filings that Hearn had not, in fact, damaged the pool, although U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro alleged in a July press conference that he had. Prosecutors said new information had come to light revealing the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-sealant-rips-algae-trump\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">rips and tears<\/a><\/span> in the pool lining were caused by a contractor&#8217;s &#8220;botched installation.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Edelman dismissed the case shortly after the government&#8217;s motion, but had not ruled on whether the case would be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the case could not be brought again, or without prejudice, meaning the charges could be revived. Hearn&#8217;s lawyers said the charges should be dismissed with prejudice, while Pirro&#8217;s office argued for a dismissal without prejudice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hearn&#8217;s case, Edelman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NormEisen\/status\/2105663279620038729?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>, &#8220;presents a markedly different scenario&#8221; than the typical dismissal of criminal cases in federal court, because &#8220;within a month, the government recognized that its prosecution lacked merit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It reached this conclusion not because it has misidentified Mr. Hearn as the perpetrator of the alleged act, but because no crime had occurred,&#8221; Edelman wrote, adding that the government&#8217;s interest in keeping the possibility of charging Hearn again would result in a &#8220;meritless, politically motivated prosecution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After Pirro&#8217;s office moved to drop the case, Mr. Trump publicly rebuked his hand-picked D.C. prosecutor, saying that she had &#8220;choked&#8221; and &#8220;made a mistake&#8221; with the decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro,&#8221; Mr. Trump told reporters in August. The president has <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116916069165520996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0frequently insisted<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116935620328114224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the peeling<\/a> was caused by vandals, not by problems with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/CONT_AWD_140P2026C0028_1443_-NONE-_-NONE-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> more than $10 million<\/a> project. &#8220;Who would do such a thing?&#8221; the president wrote in a<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-reflecting-pool-vandalism-arrest-washington-dc\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"> Truth Social post<\/a><\/span> on June 20 that also<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-reflecting-pool-vandalism-arrest-washington-dc\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"> mentioned several arrests<\/a><\/span>. Many of the other defendants accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool also had the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-charges-dropped-pirro\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">charges against them dropped<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pirro later made a bid to prove to Mr. Trump that the damage to the Reflecting Pool was caused by the shoddy construction job, bringing a box full of evidence to the White House that <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pirro-box-evidence-trump-reflecting-pool-damage\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sources said<\/a><\/span> contained all of the evidence collected from the Interior Department exculpating\u00a0Hearn and several others from criminal vandalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times in September <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/11\/climate\/reflecting-pool-contractor-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, admitted in government documents that the workers had not used enough primer and that the pool liner that was applied contained two chemicals that were incompatible.<\/p>\n<p>Days after Pirro&#8217;s office moved to dismiss the case, CBS News reported that White House officials asked the Justice Department to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/white-house-doj-reflecting-pool-david-hearn\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">weigh whether it would be possible<\/a><\/span> to bring a new criminal case against Hearn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Norm Eisen, an attorney for Hearn, said that Edelman&#8217;s ruling is &#8220;a victory for the rule of law and for an innocent American seeking justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This case never should have been brought in the first place,&#8221; Eisen said, adding that the prosecution was a &#8220;miscarriage of justice&#8221; and an &#8220;outrage that should 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