Mr. President, are the contractors who did the initial work with the reflecting pool, are they to blame for the current condition or is it vandalism?
Vandals was all, you know, we have a 350 foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind or we had people lifting up the basic some of the. It’s not a lot of damage, but we’ll probably have to let the water out and refix it. They went in there with a knife. I was just told by the people over at parks, they have five people are arrested and five people are under investigation right now. And it’s a sad thing.
National Guard police have been all over the mall. How would these vandals have gotten so close to do something like that? Do you have any proof of… I mean we didn’t have a lot of them then. Who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife and start cutting it? But do you have proof of that? That photos or videos?
Well, let’s put it this way. When you have a 350 foot slit from one end to the other. You think that’s proof? You think that’s proof?
Reporters have been down there today looking for that slit that you mentioned, and there’s no evidence. All you’d have to do is see the parks department. They’ll show it to you. Or see the secretary. But I saw it. They cut it. They cut it very violently. The same thing with the floor. They cut it and then they lifted it. They pulled it. And that’s what it is.
