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.”
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.
Suck the footlong fascists.
“Public safety operation.”
Way to buy into the bullshit, there, AP.
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.
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.
“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!
This just in: Grand Jury fails to indict a ham sandwich.
It was a salami sandwich, so it’s a case of misidentification.
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!
This is why one of their major targets is due process.
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.
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 itdon’t want to be in it.”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.
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.
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
Oh, they’ll turn on you if you’re white, male, and a former wow supremacist, too
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?
he was ‘eating the 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.
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.
Federal Prosecutors used Felony Indictment against sandwich tosser.
It’s not very effective…
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
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
May the sandwich of justice strike again!
Subway…Subhow…
Lotta great sub sandwich places in Chicago
