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.”
“public safety operation”
Journalists are going to sanitize their own executions. Wish we had a real Fourth Estate that would challenge political branding rather than stenograph it.
special public safety operation!
Reuters just did that.
IDF bombed a reuters journalist, but they reported what IDF said as the headline, claiming their target was a Hamas camera… It was their camera.
Journalists are going to sanitize their own executions.
Already happening in Gaza
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.
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he was ‘eating the sandwich’.
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!
It was a salami sandwich, so it’s a case of misidentification.
shortly after he was fired from the Justice Department, where he worked as an international affairs specialist in the department’s criminal division
The cop, who investigates cops, was so pissed off that he just threw the first thing he could get a hold of…
I can’t even come up with a proper analogy for how far off the rails this is.
It’s good to know there might be some people like that still in there…
If you’ve seen the video, you’d see that this man was pissed. Full of righteous anger… And everyone else on the street, including the people filming, just thought it was funny. Just fucking clueless.
The cop, who investigates cops
That’s internal affairs. Your quote says international affairs.
Whoops… You’re right.
I’m using the fact that I’ve been awake for 20 hours as an excuse for my lack of reading abilities.
I shall leave my mistake there to remind me to go to sleep. (After Doom scrolling for a few hours…)
Easy mistake to make, even with a full night’s sleep
Bro hahahahahaha
Last time I reacted to this Pirro quote by saying it was indeed very funny:
“He thought it was funny,” Ms. Pirro said of the defendant in a video posted online. “Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged with him with a felony.”
I just want to say, it has gone up a level to “hilarious” now that they can’t even get a grand jury on their side
And there’s that saying that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich… oh the irony.
That was their mistake, they should have charged the sandwich.
Tbh, like that probably was the error here from Bondi’s team
The Grand Jury were vegans.
it might drive jeanine to drink again.
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.
they’ve been pushing very hard for fascism lately, i can’t stand the AP
Bwahahaha. Did the officer even say thank you for the sandwich?
“Public safety operation.”
Way to buy into the bullshit, there, AP.
So is the sandwich okay?
It was long, but the meating went well.
HA!
No, of course it’s not. It got on the ground. The story is funny, but it still annoys me a little, man wasted a perfectly good sandwich :(
government wasted the expense of court time
a perfectly good sandwich
It was from Subway, though.
Ughhh, I change my mind. Throw the pedo sandwiches to your heart’s content. Unless you have to buy them. But then you have to waste actually good sandwiches…
Story of Arch Duke Frans Ferdinand’s life.
It was shot 36 times from close range and sent to El Salvador.
For a-salt and buttery.
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.
i have heard serving on a grand jury is painful, because its such a long lenght of time, thats why people try to avoid it all cost.
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
This is all hilarious of course, but that sandwich thrower would probably be dead if he wasn’t white.
You’re right for now. I think they’ll stop caring by Christmas, as long as they oppose the administration, they’re a threat.
“We”
That includes a lot of us here
Good.
Federal Prosecutors used Felony Indictment against sandwich tosser.
It’s not very effective…
