Subway sandwich thrower discovered not responsible in D.C. jury rebuke : NPR

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Andrew Leyden/Getty Photographs Not responsible. That was the discovering of a jury on Thursday within the case of a person charged with assault for throwing his hoagie at a federal officer in Washington, D.C.

The jury's conclusion got here after about seven hours of deliberations. The case of the Subway sandwich has come to represent what number of within the nation's capital really feel in regards to the Trump administration's surge of federal regulation enforcement to town.

A bystander's video captured Sean Charles Dunn in August calling federal officers racists and fascists. He thought they had been about to do an immigration raid at a homosexual nightclub on Latin Night time.

He additionally threw his Subway sandwich at Gregory Lairmore, an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Safety. Lairmore, who was carrying a bulletproof vest, advised jurors the sandwich exploded and he smelled onions and mustard — although he wasn't damage. Dunn was later caught by police and fired from his job on the Justice Division.

The U.S. lawyer's workplace in D.C. initially tried to cost Dunn with felony assault. When a grand jury did not indict him on that cost, the case was downgraded to a misdemeanor cost for assaulting or impeding a federal officer. Prosecutors mentioned Dunn went too far, and folks shouldn't be allowed to throw issues at regulation enforcement.

Dunn argued that he was being singled out due to his criticism of the Trump administration. His legal professionals additionally teased out the absurdity of the scenario, arguing it was a innocent gesture that precipitated no hurt or damage. Lairmore, who was carrying a bulletproof vest, admitted throughout the trial that he acquired gag items from colleagues, together with an opulent sandwich and a patch that claims "Felony Footlong."

"I am relieved and I am wanting ahead to transferring on with my life," Sean Charles Dunn mentioned outdoors the courthouse on Thursday after the jury's verdict.