Federal prosecutors have failed to indict a man who was seen on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in the nation’s capital.

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.”

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    4か月前

    Its almost as if the majority of us have decided the current trumpism is wrong. Almost.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    26·
    4か月前

    Prosecutors fail to indict sandwich thrower in Trump’s Washington public safety operation

    Besides the good news in the story, can we just take a moment to appreciate the absurdity of the title itself? I love it

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    9·
    4か月前

    This is going to be framed as liberal juries nullifying just to be mean to poor old President Trump.

  • RegularJoe@lemmy.world
    181·
    4か月前

    Federal Prosecutors used Felony Indictment against sandwich tosser.

    It’s not very effective…

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
    14·
    4か月前

    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.

  • wulrus@lemmy.world
    31·
    4か月前

    For some reason I thought that a sandwich thrower is a device, like a sandwich maker.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
    81·
    4か月前

    Everyone finishes watching the video.

    Prosecutor: So, you can clearly see the assault take place. Does everyone agree?

    Jurors: I didn’t see anything. Did you guys see anything? Nope. Not a thing. Who wants a sandwich?

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      58·
      4か月前

      Fucking maddening how so many Latinos voted for Trump because “they got in the right way”, not realising that they’d end up getting randomly stopped and deported “because they fit the profile”.

      It never pays to throw in your lot with white supremicists, they’ll always turn on you.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        271·
        4か月前

        I mean…I don’t think you can say they’ll turn on you. That implies they supported you at one point.

        White supremicists have ALWAYS been against you, if you’re not also white, male, and a white supremicist.

        Just because you support them, does not mean they support you. To modify a George Carlin quote:

        “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it don’t want to be in it.”

        • jonne@infosec.pub
          15·
          4か月前

          They’ll make temporary alliances if it furthers their goals. That’s why they like Israel while they’re actually antisemites, because that way you can go after Muslims more easily.

          A big part of it is obviously the dog shit messaging from the Democrats. They don’t want to be seen as critical of the police, so I haven’t seen anyone mention the reality of racist cops conducting traffic stops based on racial profiling leading to the current situation, and the assumption they had of Latinos being one singular voting block that is always in favour of open borders, instead of a whole bunch of different groups from different countries with an immigration background that ranges from recent arrivals to people that have lived in the same place for centuries and have actually had the US illegally annex them.

          • grue@lemmy.world
            7·
            4か月前

            They’ll make temporary alliances if it furthers their goals. That’s why they like Israel while they’re actually antisemites, because that way you can go after Muslims more easily.

            They like Israel because Revelations says the Jews returning to the Holy Land is a precondition for Armageddon and they think they’re gonna get Raptured. It’s literally a delusional death cult.

            • jonne@infosec.pub
              7·
              4か月前

              That’s only specific to evangelicals, neo-nazis don’t believe that shit. They like Israel because:

              • when they finally kick out the Jews, there’s a country they can send them to (in fact, the reason for the holocaust was that the Nazis didn’t have anywhere to send the Jews to, nobody wanted to take them)
              • Israel itself is a supremacist state, and they’re happy to have a country that legitimises the ‘one people, one country’ ideology they support
              • if all the Jews are in Israel, they’re all in one convenient place when you finally want to get rid of them all
      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        1·
        4か月前

        most of the latinos that came over were originally rich people that were pissed when the thier countries “siezed thier lands , or nationalized thier properties”. florida and texas is probably the main places they come when they land in america, often helped by right wing churches to house them. because most of them are catholic, so the churches have an easier time to convince them to vote against the “devil” and communism.