Arrested near reflecting pool, he plans to fight obscenity charge
Robert Mackey
Tue 23 Jun 2026 19.28 EDT
... One DC resident seen on video being dragged away from the reflecting pool in handcuffs on Monday, Christian Miles, told the Guardian on Tuesday that he was charged with violating a federal obscenity law for berating a group of Oklahoma state troopers guarding the reflecting pool.
Miles, a freelance video editor and former US navy submariner, has made it a personal project in recent months to “document the creeping police state” since Trump’s federal takeover of policing in Washington DC by filming himself confronting, and often berating, federal troops and officers around the city.
He told the Guardian that he planned to contest the administrative law charge that he violated section 2.34 (a) (2) of the Code of Federal Regulations, which prohibits disorderly conduct by someone who uses “language, an utterance, or gesture, or engages in a display or act that is obscene, physically threatening or menacing, or done in a manner that is likely to inflict injury or incite an immediate breach of the peace.”
Miles posted an edited video of his encounter with the Oklahoma troopers on YouTube, which seems to be similar in nature to his previous encounters over the past 10 months with other officers and troops. The only difference, it appears, is that this run-in took place after the president started to claim that vandals, not shoddy work by his hand-picked contractors, was to blame for the rapidly deteriorating condition of the renovated reflecting pool ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/reflecting-pool-arrest-washington-dc
Their cutting comments could damage the reflecting pool liner!
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