Customs and Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore told the jury the snack “exploded all over him” and he “could smell the onions and mustard” on his uniform.

Neither side disputes that Sean Dunn, 37, did in fact lob obscenities and a deli-style sandwich at officers deployed by President Donald Trump to patrol the nation’s capital in August. But Mr Dunn’s lawyer argues it was not a criminal act.

The incident was captured on video and went viral, making Mr Dunn a symbol of opposition in Washington DC to Trump.

Government prosecutors initially tried to secure felony charges against Mr Dunn, but a grand jury declined to indict him. Prosecutors have instead charged him with a lower-level misdemeanour assault.

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    Oh man I believe you missed the opening paragraph, which is also very funny.

    A US imigration agent has testified he could feel through his ballistic vest the impact of a sandwich hurled at him by a Washington DC protester, who has gone on trial for assault.

    I will be honest and say I don’t want to have a sandwich thrown at me, but that description is funny.

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      The fascists need to hurry up and spend millions of dollars to develop and distribute sandwich-proof vests to replace all of their military grade bullet-proof armor.

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      If he felt a sandwich through his vest, we need to look more into who threw it.

      Not for punishment, but because we need to protect what might be our first confirmed metahuman. Don’t need no anti-mutant bastards trying to take them out before they can learn to harness their sandwich-launching powers for even greater purpose.

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      Vest piercing sandwiches are a top secret CIA weapon. I read about them in some papers that I found in Trumps bathroom.