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WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Olympic canoeist David \u201cDavey\u201d Hearn is set to be arraigned Thursday on charges after being indicted in connection with alleged damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. <\/p>\n

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Hearn will be arraigned in D.C. Superior Court after a grand jury indicted him on a single count of destruction of property after he was accused of causing more than $1,000 in damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. <\/p>\n

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He is among at least four people facing charges for allegedly tampering with the pool, which President Donald Trump began renovating this spring.<\/p>\n

Before court, supporters of Hearn\u2019s will rally in his favor. <\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, alleges Hearn was seen \u201cforcefully and violently pulling up and removing the bottom liner\u201d of the pool with both hands on June 19. Hearn\u2019s legal team says he is innocent and calls the charges \u201coutrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hearn previously told NBC News that he was arrested and detained for five hours last month after he touched a piece of the detached coating in the pool. <\/p>\n

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The Olympian said he had stopped at the 2,030-foot-long Reflecting Pool during a bike ride \u201cto satisfy my curiosity as a citizen of what was happening with all the algae and the peeling blue coating.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Hearn maintained he did not remove, tear or destroy any of the coating.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe condition of the Reflecting Pool was the same after I stepped away from the water as it was before I got there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The reflecting pool has been a priority for Trump.<\/p>\n

Since April, the pool has undergone a more than $14 million rehabilitation project \u2014 well above the initial cost estimate of under $2 million. <\/p>\n

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A new liner and coating were added in a color Trump called \u201cAmerican flag blue\u201d for the country\u2019s 250th anniversary celebrations over the July 4 weekend, but the water instead turned green with algae.<\/p>\n

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Three others who allegedly took or attempted to take pieces of blue sealant from the bottom of the Reflecting Pool have been charged with misdemeanor counts of destruction of property in D.C. Superior Court.<\/p>\n

Sophie Elaine Dennison-Gibby, Justin Toribio Carreno and Cameron Michael Thiers were each charged with misdemeanor destruction of public property less than $1,000 in D.C. Superior Court this month. <\/p>\n

They were all arraigned Wednesday and pleaded not guilty. <\/p>\n

But, as NBC News reported last month, the material had already been peeling off the bottom of the pool at the time of the arrests. <\/p>\n

In one case, an officer allegedly saw someone \u201cpull up a piece of the blue paint.\u201d In another instance, a 26-year-old white male allegedly removed a piece of blue sealant and had it in his hand. <\/p>\n

In the other case, an officer with the Montana Department of Corrections said he witnessed a woman remove a piece of reflecting pool paint and that she allegedly had another piece in her purse.<\/p>\n

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