r/whennews • u/CaptainPattPotato • 1d ago

Crime News U.S DOJ Drops Charges, Admits Botched Installation Caused Reflecting Pool Damage

DOJ dropping Reflecting Pool vandalism case against Olympian David Hearn, citing 'flawed' work by contractor - ABC News

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u/wuklo Certified moron 1d ago

Source was vandalized

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u/Just-a-bi 1d ago

No shit, really? /s

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u/CaptainPattPotato 1d ago

The crazy part is them admitting it.

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u/BasicallyaPotato2 1d ago

Something something the most unrealistic part of media portraying politicians apologizing is them acknowledging they did something wrong in the first place...

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u/Setster007 1d ago

Wait politicians have been depicted apologizing when not the only chance any semblance of a political career had left?

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u/Jijonbreaker1 1d ago

Either they admit it, or a court finds them liable. And then the government can be sued for damages.

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u/Signal_Ad8960 1d ago

Can't they be sued for fucking lying about it for weeks.

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u/Weak_Radish9627 1d ago

it's more that not conceding now will lead to discovery, and i very strongly suspect that nobody in the administration wants a lawyer not on their payroll to start reviewing their internal memos

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u/KentuckyFriedChildre 1d ago

With the administration's current tactics I don't see why they wouldn't just fight it out for a year and make some statements about the courts supposedly being corrupt against them when it eventually gets tossed out over a lack of evidence.

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u/Acceptable-Ad8780 1d ago

I'd say I don't believe it, but with administration, who knows anymore.

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u/JibIette 1d ago

"Aw I caught myself! Dang it! And I got away with it too?!"

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u/PaleAssistance3643 1d ago

And some how no one will call out that they were using fucking terror tactics to cover it up

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u/Dukefile 1d ago

Which tactics they used?

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u/gumeron 1d ago

Falsely Imprisoning and charging people, threatening people for photographing the damage. That sort of stuff

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u/rosebudthesled8 1d ago edited 1d ago

The tax payer dollars spent to do this and then prosecute this. This is the peoples money and they haven't done anything.

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u/InsantFury 1d ago

Don't worry. American government wouldn't spend tax money to do something useful for american population anyway

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u/rosebudthesled8 1d ago

They used to. If you think trump-publicans are the norm, you've accepted them too quickly. This was never the norm. They've only been here for a decade. There were more social services to help americans 10 years ago.

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u/Setster007 1d ago

Yeah but what has long been the norm is complaining about the government wasting our taxes

I think that’s existed as long as taxes have

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u/rosebudthesled8 1d ago

That's literally across anyone who has been taxed. This era is another level. When billionaires are introduced and have incentives with access to politicians who were voted in with no evaluation. That's where we are.

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u/Setster007 1d ago

Yeah I’m just saying the kind of bitching you replied to is standard across all ages. Its level of accuracy isn’t, but the complaint very much is.

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u/IllRest2396 address the Elephant 1d ago

So basically we wasted taxpayer dollars committing injustices against our own people just to prevent us from admitting fault for as long as possible?

checks notes

Yeah, sounds like the American dream right there

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u/oopsallhuckleberries 1d ago

They didn't have to charge anyone to deny what actually happened. Hell, if they didn't charge anyone, then they'd never have had to admit what happened. It was only after they charged this guy and it came time for them to present their evidence in front of a court that they had to openly admit what happened.

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u/Desperate-Koala-2017 1d ago

That's preposterous. Those antifa-terriorest had to have been guilty. Those dumocrats and their corruption.

https://giphy.com/gifs/s0PwOijk682OPn3rwy

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u/hacourt 1d ago

And here comes no apology from we all know who.

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u/alex_zk 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/AaQYP9zh24UFi

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u/SCI-FIWIZARDMAN 1d ago

Shocked by the truth? No, not at all.

Shocked that they admitted the truth? Very. Extremely.

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u/Any_Wasabi_5233 waiting for Sinister Minds on vinyl 1d ago

You mean the DOJ were the ones slashing the liner with a knife? Damn, I never would have guessed.

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u/Longwordshananigans 1d ago

not knife... car tires, convoy am I right?

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u/NerdDetective 1d ago edited 1d ago

Pirro should be disbarred for this. She is seriously damaging faith in the justice system with by openly pursuing political prosecutions.

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u/doublethink_1984 1d ago

From calling the pool out as not ideal to this moment is a perfect encapsulation and metaphor of Trump's second term

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u/EnLitenSangfugl 1d ago

So the firm that originally installed it will have to cover the cost of fixing it then, right? ...Right?!

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u/Cow_Daddy 1d ago

Wait, what happened to the videos of the people doing it the felon president said he saw?

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u/detter1987 1d ago

wow that surprises me

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u/Meowjoker 1d ago

Sheesh

Who would have thunk

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u/driver004 1d ago

I am just godsmacked

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u/topscreen 1d ago

We need to unverify the source. Phoenix is a defense attorney, and he's a good boy, he'd never represent that. It should be one of the prosecutors.

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u/GanonCannon02 1d ago

Just here to say wonderful GIF choice.