Federal prosecutors have failed to indict a man who was seen on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in the nation’s capital.

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.”

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    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.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gavin-newsom-trump-hand-bruise-b2815067.html

    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      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.

      • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        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.

        • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
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          9 days ago

          You’re not wrong but that also means he could ride off of, “Help me complete Trump’s legacy,” for a bit and he’s backed by Thiel. That may be all the time they need to move quickly.