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.”
This is why one of their major targets is due process.
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?
I’d like a sandwich, but I didn’t see any laws broken
All I saw was a hero.
Well clearly the sandwich is guilty of public indecency, you can see its condiments.
Also the ICE agents are disturbing the peace.
This just in: Grand Jury fails to indict a ham sandwich.
They didn’t fail. They did their job.
Agreed, they did to their jobs, it’s just a joke on the old saying that “a Grand Jury could indict a ham sandwich.”
Ham sandwich ✔
Sub sandwich ✖We need more data to determine exactly which kinds of sandwiches are indictable. Throw more!
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.
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.
This is all hilarious of course, but that sandwich thrower would probably be dead if he wasn’t white.
So is the sandwich okay?
It was long, but the meating went well.
HA!
It was shot 36 times from close range and sent to El Salvador.
For a-salt and buttery.
Federal Prosecutors used Felony Indictment against sandwich tosser.
It’s not very effective…
We need to start doing a trump hand check. Well maybe, it’ll probably just give us too much hope.
On Tuesday, YouTuber Keith Edwards — a former staffer for the anti-Trump Lincoln Project — posted a side-by-side comparison of Trump’s hand during a Monday event and the hand of the late Queen Elizabeth II during an audience with then-prime minister Liz Truss.
Edwards noted that the photograph of the late Queen with Truss was taken just two days before she passed, ending more than 70 years on the British throne.
Then you get JD Vance, who’s even more in the pocket of right-wing think tanks and billionaires. If there’s a Vance presidency, It’ll pretty much be run by people like Thiel, Yarvin and Ellison.
Until congress fixes the damage done by Citizens United, everything else is just going to be a bandage. Maybe if the FPTP voting system and the electoral college go away, but that’s even harder to do. I don’t think America needs a good or strong president. It needs congress to do its job by reigning in the two other branches that have gone off the rails, but it’s also controlled by openly corrupt right-wing representatives.
Could get weird. I doubt he’ll have nearly as much public support. I think the MAGA crowd are like a cult with a Great Leader. If anyone else tries half the shit Big D pulls they wouldn’t get away with it.
I believe that’s an accurate assessment.
Good.
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.
Its almost as if the majority of us have decided the current trumpism is wrong. Almost.
The grand jury 🥲
Lotta great sub sandwich places in Chicago
This is going to be framed as liberal juries nullifying just to be mean to poor old President Trump.
Who cares
You know it! Just wait until SCOTUS makes another special ruling that doesn’t count as precedent in the future so their favorite party isn’t held to the same standard.
