 The demonstrations came to a climax when a group of black and white protesters jumped into the hotel's segregated swimming pool.In response to the protest, James Brock, the manager of the hotel and the president of the Florida Hotel & Motel Association, poured what he claimed to be muriatic acid into the pool to burn the protesters.Photographs of this, and of a policeman jumping into the pool to arrest the protesters, were broadcast around the world.