that was quick, trials with a jury take a while to setup, and usually reserved for crimes that are serious, this isn’t
In this economy they were probably just being contrarian to get another free meal and some more pocket change.
The justice system moves at exactly the speed they want it to. Years to prosecute someone like Trump. Or it takes a day. Whichever is most convenient for the rich and most inconvenient for the poors.
🎶There goes my hero… Watch him as he throws! 🎵
Long live sandwich man!!!
Can I get a statue built?
🌯 WOOOOOOOOOO!!! 🌯🌯
Soooo… We PAID for this B.S. We paid for the arrest, check the number of uniformed tax-payer funded officers. We paid for the prosecution, we paid for the court, we paid for the jury, we paid and paid AFTER the famously sandwich-indicting Grand Jury wouldn’t touch this case.
Somehow it feels like the DA should be relieved of their duties.
Dear ice. No one likes you. No one wants you around. When you do not follow the constitution you renounce the constitution which is america which means you renounce your citizenship. Get the fuck out of my country.
That sandwich is a hero
slow clap
He should now sue to have ICE buy him a gift card to replace the sandwich.
The fact that this guy had to go to court at all to defend himself is just asinine. These dumb fascist fucks are a bunch of thin skinned bullies.
Any time the prosecution wasted on this is time not spent on something else
I’m sorry you had to waste your time, but thank you for your service sub sandwich guy 🫡
Good point! If they are going to use up our resources anyways, its probably best they are as inefficient and incompetent as possible. Plus, there’s the added benefit that the prosecutor and agency have further damaged their credibility - possible ammo for future defense cases.
Have no worries… If the current Reich has its way, and so far it seems it has, they’ll not have to go to court anymore…
This is clearly judicial harrassment … this prosecutor is now likely to lose his job. If sandwich guy is smart he will sue about 4-5 different people/groups.
DC is practicing Jury Nullification … wondering if the Juries there would steamroll these lawsuits forward.
This was a HUGE waste of OUR hard earned tax dollars. This should NEVER have gone to trial. I’m embarrassed to call myself an American.
Not really sure its because they are thin skinned. Its part of the facist playbook. You have to make an example of anyone that steps out of line.
It’s also a pretty clear example of SLAPP prosecution.
I thought SLAPP was for civil cases though?
I’m not referring to any specific legislation, more the concept. It’s designed to discourage people from participating in the legal system at all.
SLAPP is designed to prevent people like Trump from using the legal system to silence and otherwise harm critics.
I’m pretty sure he is talking about the concept it represents where the corrupt justice system is now being overly punitive in a attempt to silence the public. Same thing just no similar law to control the prosecution.
It should be remembered that SEVERAL grand juries initially declined to charge the defendant, despite the ironic traditional reputation of grand juries to “indict a ham sandwich.” But they kept going back. They were determined to destroy this citizen.
Obviously, they eventually prevailed, got the Sandwich Assassin into a courtroom, where the “victim” proceeded to blatantly lie in open court:
Lairmore had testified that the sandwich “exploded all over” his chest and claimed he could smell mustard and onions. But a photo showed that the sandwich was still in its wrapper on the ground after it hit Lairmore in his bulletproof vest.
What fucking drama queen LIAR. He should be charged with perjury.
Also, the jurors had sandwiches for lunch. I’m surprised the Trump lawyers didn’t try for a mistrial on the grounds that lunch was prejudicial.
I feel bad for the guy for losing a perfectly good sandwich.
Fucking ICE losers.
he could smell mustard and onions.
the horror…
Something tells me this guy was pretty fed up with his employer anyway. Probably figured if he was going to get DOGEd, it might as well be for a reason. I’d wear that shit like a badge of honor, literally. They altered the Banksy art to show a guy throwing a sandwich, and I would put that on a T-shirt, and wear it everywhere - “Look! That’s ME!”
I own a business, and if that guy applied, I’d hire him instantly, even if he wasn’t qualified. I can always train anybody (except 2, that’s another story), but this guy is obviously a man of character, and that’s always welcome in my world.
I agree completely.
Eventually we’ll have a new administration. Would you be in favor of going after ICE agents and other bad actors from Trump’s term? Or would that be unnecessary retribution?
We are in this position because we declined to go hard on Civil War traitors and Nazis. This time, we have to slam the lid so hard on these psychopaths, that whoever doesn’t end up in prison, or executed, will slither bank under their slimy rocks and stay there.
And then we have to reconfigure our entire History and Social Studies curriculum to include the true history of the Right, with special emphasis on the Treason of MAGAs and the Republican responsibility for their rise. Even private schools should be forced to adopt that curriculum if they expect to remain open.
That way, when they try to emerge again in the future, we will recognize them for what scum they are, and brutalize them again until they decide that their rocks weren’t so bad after all.
We are in this position
Because we didn’t vote for Harris like we did Biden.
That’s a short sighted answer. It’s like saying we only got shot because we didn’t dodge that last bullet. The real answer is that dodging bullets is not an effective long term strategy for not getting shot. We won’t keep fascists out of power by winning every election.
That first paragraph, do you have a source for that?
I tried to find proof and all I could find was that the grand jury that was hearing it as a felony refused to indict, so the prosecutors went with a misdemeanor that doesn’t require a grand jury indictment.
There were a few OTHER instances of grand juries refusing to indict other people accused on assaulting federal officers, but those were unrelated to the incident in question.
I’m not even sure it’s legal (…not that legality matters to this regime, I know) to shop grand juries … like that first paragraph implied, is it?
Here’s the dumb AI synopsis, but it adds sources:
A grand jury rejected the felony charge against the “sandwich thrower,” Sean Dunn, three times before prosecutors dropped the felony charge and pursued a misdemeanor. The grand jury in Washington D.C. twice refused to indict him on felony assault charges, and the third time they did so as well, according to CNBC and The Washington Post. Three rejections: Federal prosecutors failed to convince a grand jury to indict Dunn on felony assault charges on three separate occasions. Outcome of rejections: After the third rejection, prosecutors reduced the charge to a misdemeanor, which does not require a grand jury indictment. Final verdict: Dunn was later acquitted of the misdemeanor charge in a trial.
So they tried to indict him by Grand Jury three times, who rejected them. Then they downgraded the charge so they wouldn’t need a Grand Jury, and then they lost that case, too.
It seemed like when it was all over, the jurors agreed that the ICE cop crying about getting hit with a sandwich in his bulletproof vest was big whiney baby who should just FUCK OFF!
He threw it in protest. He was acquitted.
You know what to do next time you go to protest!
“Sandwich exploded”… :)
Lettuce be heard!
Proceed, my breadren.
That guy got himself out of quite the pickle
Prosecutor couldn’t cut the mustard.
These cold cuts don’t run!
