The US government is starting to prosecute a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent
Throwing a sandwich at a federal agent was an act of protest in Washington, DC, Resident Sean Charles Dunn.
The judge must decide whether a crime exists.
“It doesn’t matter who you are, you just can’t deliver things to people because you’re crazy,” US Attorney John Parron told jurors Tuesday at the start of Dunn’s trial in the misdemeanor assault on Dunn Card.
Dunn does not deny that he tossed his underground-style sandwich on the sidewalk outside a nightclub that night on Aug. 10.
It was a “Milk Point” for Dunn as he voiced his opposition to President Donald Trump’s law enforcement, in the nation’s capital, defense attorney Julia Gatto said during the opening of the case.
“It was a harmless move to finally exercise his right to free speech,” Gatto said. “He is innocent.”
Bystander’s cell phone video of the Conformation went viral on social media, turning the dunn into a symbol of resistance to the revival of months too long. Murals depicting him in the center were thrown up in the city almost overnight.
“He did it. He threw the sandwich,” Gati told Maswich.
“And now the US attorney in the District of Colombia has turned that moment – the sandwich that was thrown – into a criminal case, a Federal criminal case charging a federal charge.”
You can smell the onion and the mustard.– Gregory Lairmore, CBP agent
The grand jury declined to dismiss the felony assault count. After an unusual reprimand from the Grand Jury office, US Attorney Jeanine Porro’s charged Dunn with a misdemeanor charge.
Customs and Border Patrol Capt. Gregory Lairmore, the government’s first witness, said the sandwich “exploded” when it hit his chest so hard he couldn’t hear it through his ballistic vest.
“Don’t suck on onions and mustard,” she said.
Lairmore and other CBP agents were standing in front of a club hosting a good Latin night when Dunn approached and yelled at them, calling them “Fascing” and “shameful” on them.
“Why are you here? I don’t want you in my town!” Dunn yelled, according to police.
Lairmore testified that he and other employees tried to escalate the situation.
“He’s looking down on me. He’s angry with me. Calling me and my colleagues all kinds of names,” she said. “I didn’t answer. That’s his Constitutional right to express his opinion.”
Agents are deferred to it, the court orders
After throwing the sandwich, Dunn ran away but was arrested a block away.
Later, when the viral video spread on the Internet, Lairmore’s colleagues gave him gifts that made light of the incident, including a toy sandwich sandwich and a “Felony Footlong” patch.
Defense attorney Sabrina Schroff said it was evidence the agents saw the case as “excessive” and “just a joke.”
Parron told the Marodors that everyone is entitled to their views on Trump’s Federal Surge.
“With respect, it doesn’t mean that this case is going to be that,” said the prosecutor. “You can’t just do what the defendant did here. You crossed the line.”
Dunn was a former Justice Department official who served as an international affairs specialist in its criminal division. After Dunn’s arrest, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced her firing in a social media post referring to her as “an example of a deep state.”
After allowing the national guard forces in Washington to carry weapons, US President Donald Trump discussed plans to increase the use of the military in cities across the country.
He was released from custody but was arrested again when a team of armed agents in ranger gear raided his home. The White House posted a “massively produced propaganda” attack on its official X account, Dunn’s lawyers said.
They noted that Dunn had promised to surrender to the police before the attack.
Dunn’s attorneys argued that the bond and White House postings proved that Dunn was out of control over his political speech. They have urged District Judge Carl Nichols to dismiss the case for what they say is a selective and selective prosecutor.
Nichols, a Trump appointee, did not rule on that request before the hearing began Monday.
Dunn is charged with assault, resisting, resisting, murder, threatening and obstructing a federal officer.
National Guard in many cities
Most of the Trump supporters who held the edge were condemned by the capitol and convicted of assaulting or obstructing the police during Jan. 6 Attacks. Trump has pardoned or ordered the dismissal of charges against all, including leaders of extremist groups found guilty of treason.
Trump issued an executive order in August declaring a crime emergency in the nation’s capital, even as the Justice Department recently indicated that crime there is at a 30-year low.
Within a month, more than 2,300 patrol troops were sent to DC from the Republican-led States under the command of the secretary of war. Trump also sent hundreds of federal agents to help them.
US President Donald Trump says he is sending the national guard “to protect the war from the war attacked,” in a social media post on Saturday. CBC’s Julia Wonge spoke to other City residents before the military arrived, who gave a different perspective on what they saw.
Trump hailed his anti-crime campaign in the nation’s capital as a resounding success. The data shows that crime has decreased during that time, but the presence of the forces, sometimes armed, has been enough not to resemble the residents, although no violent incidents in DC have been reported.
Guards have transit areas and tourist areas and as transit continues, it has become an urban planning feature in the city’s parks and neighborhoods.
Trump has also sought to send the National Guard to several cities this year, including Los Angeles, Memphis, Chicago and Portland.
CBP and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency have been accused of aggressive tactics in several incidents while carrying out Trump’s legal agenda for an aggressive deportation effort to remove illegal immigrants.
In Chicago, a judge raised concerns about gas use by CBP, and an ice agent killed a person in September.
Patrols are agents that lead to peaceful deviance throughout the country, but also to organized violent events. A man was shot dead after opening fire in July at a Texas Border Patrol station, while two detainees were shot near an exy building in Dallas by a sniper who later killed himself.
