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Left: A tribunal grounds identifies this arsenic the infinitesimal Sean Dunn threw the sandwich. Right: Then-Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, right, speaks during her swearing successful ceremony, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, successful Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci).
Recently confirmed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro reportedly suffered different stroke successful her efforts to stiffly punish individuals who are accused of attacking patrolling national instrumentality enforcement successful the nation's capital, arsenic her bureau again failed to person a expansive assemblage to indict successful a felony battle case.
This time, the jokes among the ineligible commentariat practically wrote themselves, arsenic the apical authoritative failed to indict successful a lawsuit involving a sandwich.
The statement of facts successful the lawsuit alleged that 37-year-old Sean C. Dunn, connected the nighttime of Aug. 10, got successful the look of a Customs and Border Patrol cause patrolling 14th Street NW and shouted "F— you! You f—ing fascists! Why are you here? I don't privation you successful my city!"
Minutes later, arsenic video recorded astatine the country captured, the fishy identified arsenic Dunn hurled what was reported to beryllium a sandwich from Subway astatine the agent.
The feds alleged Dunn was caught "winding his limb backmost and forcefully throwing" the sub, past moving away.
Once helium was arrested, helium allegedly told a D.C. Metro Transit Police officer: "I did it. I threw a sandwich." In the aftermath, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed that Dunn was a DOJ employee and that helium was fired.
Beyond losing his occupation arsenic a paralegal successful the DOJ Criminal Division's Office of International Affairs, Dunn was charged with assaulting, resisting, oregon impeding definite officers and employees of the United States.
Crucially, however, the New York Times has reported that connected Tuesday a expansive assemblage declined to indict Dunn. The tribunal docket does not yet bespeak this, and Dunn's lawyer reportedly would not remark connected the development.
But if, successful information and arsenic reported, the expansive assemblage did not indict, it whitethorn look to galore to beryllium not conscionable beryllium a nonaccomplishment of Pirro's office, but of Bondi, who backed the felony complaint publically arsenic an evident connection to immoderate different "Deep State" actors wrong her DOJ who would lash retired astatine instrumentality enforcement.
"If you interaction immoderate instrumentality enforcement officer, we volition travel aft you. I conscionable learned that this suspect worked astatine the Department of Justice — NO LONGER. Not lone is helium FIRED, helium has been charged with a felony," Bondi posted connected Aug. 14. "This is an illustration of the Deep State we person been up against for 7 months arsenic we enactment to refocus DOJ. You volition NOT enactment successful this medication portion disrespecting our authorities and instrumentality enforcement."
Docket enactment successful astatine slightest 1 different lawsuit this week serves an illustration of what to expect adjacent successful Dunn's case, however.
As precocious arsenic Monday, Pirro had to record documents notifying the U.S. District Court successful D.C. that her bureau had failed for the 3rd clip to unafraid a expansive assemblage indictment against 44-year-old Sydney Lori Reid, who connected July 22 was accused of assaulting, resisting oregon impeding an FBI cause and "inflicted bodily injury," successful violation of 18 USC § 111(a)(1), portion that cause and different serviceman attempted to "transfer […] 2 known pack members suspected to beryllium portion of the 18th Street Gang into FBI" and ICE custody extracurricular of the D.C. Central Detention Facility.
The statute, utilized successful many Jan. 6 cases, notes that if successful the people idiosyncratic commits this transgression and "inflicts bodily injury" they "shall beryllium fined nether this rubric oregon imprisoned not much than 20 years, oregon both."
The initial connection of facts successful the lawsuit included of photograph of the FBI agent's manus pursuing the alleged confrontation with Reid.
Court grounds of wounded Sydney Lori Reid allegedly inflicted upon an FBI agent.
Yet 3 expansive juries returned "no existent bill," Pirro acknowledged, starring her bureau to pursue a misdemeanor violation of the statute instead.
The aged gag is that immoderate bully authoritative could get a assemblage to indict a ham sandwich. Do you cognize however severely you person to beryllium overcharging thing for a expansive assemblage to cull charges 3 times successful a row? What an embarrassment. https://t.co/Lby1MbxgTF
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) August 25, 2025
It is not common for national prosecutors to neglect to unafraid expansive assemblage indictments, fto unsocial repeatedly, which ineligible experts wide pointed retired by notation to the quip attributed to erstwhile New York Supreme Court Chief Justice Sol Wachtler — that prosecutors could "get a expansive assemblage to indict a ham sandwich" if they truthful desired.
Emphasizing the one-sided quality of expansive assemblage proceedings and the request for national prosecutors lone to conscionable the probable origin standard, ineligible commentators marveled astatine "thoroughly embarrassing" quality that Pirro's bureau failed to indict Dunn for hurling a sandwich.
Most national prosecutors tin indict a ham sandwich.
Trump's DOJ is truthful incompetent it can't indict the feline who threw one. pic.twitter.com/uxvSMb5esu
— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) August 27, 2025
Prosecutors couldn't adjacent person a expansive assemblage to indict a feline who threw a ham sandwich. A thoroughly embarrassing and well-deserved decision fixed that the medication rolled retired his apprehension similar they had conscionable captured El Chapo. https://t.co/HRhagSskeR
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) August 27, 2025
They accidental prosecutors could get a expansive assemblage to indict a ham sandwich…
but seemingly not the feline who threw a ham sandwich.
At slightest Trump's hack prosecutors can't. pic.twitter.com/tltxbVmSz3
— Jed Shugerman (@jedshug) August 27, 2025
Must not person been a ham sandwich https://t.co/M2XAnUWDtN
— Jonathan H. Adler (@jadler1969) August 27, 2025
The aged saying is that a expansive assemblage volition indict a ham sandwich. But someway this 1 didn't indict the DOJ lawyer who threw sandwich astatine national agent. https://t.co/CndlPYUGu4
— Ed Whelan (@EdWhelanEPPC) August 27, 2025
So seemingly you can't indict a ham sandwich? https://t.co/CQ1QXxPS2m
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) August 27, 2025
Sure, prosecutors tin get a expansive assemblage to indict a ham sandwich, but they cannot get 1 to indict the antheral who threw it—at slightest not nether the enactment of Attorney Judge Pirro. pic.twitter.com/R6VBQmMpLG
— Patrick Jaicomo (@pjaicomo) August 27, 2025
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