The D.C. Sandwich-Thrower Might Walk
D.C. has ciabatta problems, but the sandwich-thrower ain’t one.
Published 3 months ago in Ftw
Sean Dunn, the man who threw a Subway sandwich at federal agents in Washington, D.C. a couple of weeks ago, might be getting off. According to The New York Times, federal prosecutors failed to secure an indictment against Dunn for the crime of hucking a hoagie at federal police.
Prosecutors called the failure to indict Dunn a “sharp rebuke by ordinary citizens,” after the Department of Justice staged a dramatic arrest video that included nearly two-dozen SWAT officers and Border Patrol agents in tactical gear.
Dunn was facing felony charges for his attack with a deli weapon; however, serving real jail time is now the yeast of his worries.
The Times described the grand jury’s decision as a ‘sharp rebuke by ordinary citizens’ after the Trump administration tried to charge Sean Charles Dunn with felony assault against a federal officer — a crime that carries a maximum sentence of 8 years in prison — for throwing a… pic.twitter.com/g7Vx1nlDZX
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