US EditionSubway Sandwich Thrower Found Not Guilty in D.C. Jury Rebuke
- On Thursday, a Washington, D.C. jury found Sean Dunn, former Department of Justice paralegal, not guilty of misdemeanor assault after he threw a Subway sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent on Aug. 10.
- U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office initially sought felony charges but a Washington, D.C. grand jury refused to indict, so prosecutors pursued a misdemeanor instead amid President Donald Trump's deployment of federal agents to Washington, D.C.
- Defense lawyers emphasized gag gifts and visual evidence to argue that a Subway sandwich still in its wrapping and the `Felony Footlong` patch showed the throw could not cause harm.
- Jurors deliberated for roughly 7 hours before returning the not guilty verdict, and Sean Dunn hugged his lawyers, saying he was relieved and looking forward to moving on.
- The acquittal is another setback for prosecutors in Washington, reflecting backlash over law-enforcement surge cases and a pattern of grand juries in Washington, D.C. refusing to indict.
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Colbert Celebrates DC Sandwich Thrower's Acquittal With T-Shirt Cannon
Colbert Celebrates DC Sandwich Thrower's Acquittal With T-Shirt Cannon On Thursday, Sean Dunn, the man charged with assaulting a border patrol agent with a sandwich, was found not guilty, and CBS’s Stephen Colbert was eager to celebrate. The Late Show host mocked the idea that a sandwich posed a grave enough threat to the officer to merit the charges by hurling a Subway sandwich at a boxing dummy using a T-shirt cannon. Sticking with the CBS br…
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s increased police intervention in Washington was declared innocent of aggression on Thursday in the last legal setback of the federal intervention. A viral video of the launch of the sandwich turned Sean Charles Dunn into a symbol of resistance to Trump’s deployment of federal agents to fight crime in the country’s capital. His misdemeanor…
An American who threw a sandwich at a federal agent in protest will not be convicted of doing so. According to a jury, this allowed Sean Dunn to express his opposition to President Trump's decision to send federal troops to Washington. Dunn was filmed in August defying and scolding a group of federal agents in the US capital. These were border security employees who were deployed to arrest illegal immigrants in the city. In the following days, T…
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