WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have failed to obtain a felony indictment against a man who was seen on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in the nation’s capital, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Sean Charles Dunn was arrested on an assault charge after he threw a sub-style sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent. A video of the incident went viral, and shortly after he was fired from the Justice Department, where he worked as an international affairs specialist in the department’s criminal division.
The case is one of the examples of the legal pushback to President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington that has led to more than 1,000 arrests. It is highly unusual for grand jurors to refuse to return an indictment, and it was once said that prosecutors could persuade a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.”
Well. I wouldn’t expect much from career alcoholics.
Its almost as if the majority of us have decided the current trumpism is wrong. Almost.
He’s being charged with Assault With a Deli Weapon.
Credit: Jimmy Dore
if it was a stale baguette french, it can do some real damage.
Which he stole from some random news anchor… Dore hasn’t been funny or relevant in almost a decade now.
1.6 million followers on Youtube seems relevant to me, you shitlib bundle of twigs.
Wow very clever way to get around calling someone a slur genius
He stole the sandwich from a news anchor?
Who’s on first…
Good.
Last time I reacted to this Pirro quote by saying it was indeed very funny:
“He thought it was funny,” Ms. Pirro said of the defendant in a video posted online. “Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged with him with a felony.”
I just want to say, it has gone up a level to “hilarious” now that they can’t even get a grand jury on their side
And there’s that saying that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich… oh the irony.
The Grand Jury were vegans.
That was their mistake, they should have charged the sandwich.
Tbh, like that probably was the error here from Bondi’s team
For some reason I thought that a sandwich thrower is a device, like a sandwich maker.
Hoagie Cannon
Talk about a hole in one.
8 years for spitting on a fed?!
The lengthy prison sentence is to send a message to the populace.
that’s quite too strong a message lol
It is however Jeanine “I scream like a banshee” Pirro wants people to know if you do anything the regime doesn’t like you are going to jail for a long time.
Suck the footlong fascists.
The new US foot is now 2.5".
shortly after he was fired from the Justice Department, where he worked as an international affairs specialist in the department’s criminal division
The cop, who investigates cops, was so pissed off that he just threw the first thing he could get a hold of…
I can’t even come up with a proper analogy for how far off the rails this is.
The cop, who investigates cops
That’s internal affairs. Your quote says international affairs.
Whoops… You’re right.
I’m using the fact that I’ve been awake for 20 hours as an excuse for my lack of reading abilities.
I shall leave my mistake there to remind me to go to sleep. (After Doom scrolling for a few hours…)
Easy mistake to make, even with a full night’s sleep
It’s good to know there might be some people like that still in there…
If you’ve seen the video, you’d see that this man was pissed. Full of righteous anger… And everyone else on the street, including the people filming, just thought it was funny. Just fucking clueless.
“Public safety operation.”
Way to buy into the bullshit, there, AP.
Fuck AP for calling this a “public safety operation”. That is absolutely not a neutral way to report this. Fascist loving bootlickers. AP is a right wing rag.
they’ve been pushing very hard for fascism lately, i can’t stand the AP
Mild doxx, I’ve served on a DC Grand Jury before. You’re commuting to the courthouse for 3 weeks minimum, though only 3 days a week. Most of the people are not getting compensated from their job to be there, just some money for the Metro.
The standard of evidence to indict is much lower, basically “it’s believable that the accused could be guilty of the charges”. Caught on camera is quite believable, the key here is “the charges”. If the charges don’t fit the crime, a jury that’s paying attention wouldn’t indict . I’m 80% sure indictment is a majority vote, didn’t have to be unanimous.
Generally the prosecution is presenting evidence and calling law enforcement officers to testify, the defendant sending a lawyer is optional (expensive). You get a mostly one-sided argument, but these are all people who live in DC; some well off but most kinda poor. It’s DC so both categories do not like Trump. If they believe somebody is committing crimes in DC they’ll happily indict; but most cases indict, it feels good to cancel the case when someone doesn’t deserve it.
This dude, himself, worked at the Justice Department. I’m sure he was able to get some very good representation.
i have heard serving on a grand jury is painful, because its such a long lenght of time, thats why people try to avoid it all cost.
The quote: We are willing to indict ICE agents for disturbing the peace and the sandwich itself for public indecency but no one else in this situation did anything indict worthy.
So if they wanted they could charge the sandwich or the ICE officers but because they are Trump’s willful ignorants, they get nothing but shame.
In semi-related news, the DC spitter had charges reduced to misdemeanors after 3 different grand juries returned no true bill. In federal court, there is a 30 day deadline after arrest to secure an indictment or your felony charges get dismissed.
Federal Prosecutors used Felony Indictment against sandwich tosser.
It’s not very effective…
