Officials ask for help identifying person in Reflecting Pool damage investigation

The U.S. Park Police is seeking the public's assistance successful identifying a idiosyncratic captured connected camera arsenic portion of an probe into harm to the Reflecting Pool and the alleged demolition of authorities spot successful Washington, D.C.

Police said the incidental happened Friday astatine astir 3:36 p.m. astatine the Reflecting Pool connected the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial successful the nation's capital.

Video released by constabulary shows what appears to beryllium a idiosyncratic kneeling adjacent to the Reflecting Pool and reaching an limb into the water.

The idiosyncratic appears to person acheronian hairsbreadth and is wearing a grey garment and achromatic shorts portion carrying a light-colored handbag.

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Police said the incidental happened connected Friday astatine astir 3:36 p.m. astatine the Reflecting Pool connected the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial successful the nation's capital. (U.S. Park Police)

Police said the probe follows President Donald Trump's effort to resurface the Reflecting Pool, which resulted successful peeling overgarment and algae that discolored the intended "American Flag Blue" quality of the h2o to a swampy green.

Trump and different officials said aggregate radical were arrested and others were cited for allegedly damaging the Reflecting Pool.

"They went down with astir apt a container cutter oregon a precise crisp razor of immoderate benignant oregon a knife, and they cut, and past they started ripping it up," Trump said successful the Oval Office connected Wednesday. "You cognize why? Because they’re sick people."

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Video released by constabulary shows what appears to beryllium a pistillate kneeling down adjacent to the Reflecting Pool and reaching her limb into the water. (U.S. Park Police)

"These radical should spell to jailhouse for a agelong time," Trump said, adding that helium believed the excavation was damaged due to the fact that of what helium called "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

Trump said immoderate h2o volition beryllium released from the pool so that repairs tin beryllium made. The president had antecedently speculated that fertilizer was poured into the excavation and caused the algae.

"Around the Reflecting Pool, we person a immense tract of grass," helium said. "They poured acerb connected the grass, the aforesaid people, I guess."

National Park Service employees and contractors usage vacuums to region greenish algae from the bottommost of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool connected June 18, 2026, successful Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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"It killed – you know, acerb kills writer rapidly – truthful that’s being fixed," Trump continued.

On Monday, he said chemicals were "illegally placed successful the water."