FBI and Border Patrol officers talk with Sean Charles Dunn, aft helium allegedly assaulted instrumentality enforcement with a sandwich, on the U Street corridor during a national instrumentality enforcement deployment to the nation's superior connected Aug. 10, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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A national assemblage successful Washington, D.C., connected Thursday recovered erstwhile Department of Justice worker Sean Dunn not blameworthy of assaulting a national cause whom helium had thrown a Subway sandwich astatine successful August.
Dunn's acquittal was the latest rebuke to the DOJ successful the case.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors antecedently failed to get a expansive assemblage successful D.C. to indict the 37-year-old connected a felony battle charge.
Pirro's bureau past filed a misdemeanor complaint against him, which went to proceedings this week.
Dunn was charged successful transportation with tossing a sandwich astatine a Customs and Border Protection bureau connected Aug. 10 on the U Street nightlife corridor successful Washington. That serviceman and different national authorities were deployed by President Donald Trump successful effect to what the president claimed was rampant transgression successful the superior city.
"F--- you! You f---ing fascists! Why are you here? I don't privation you successful my city!" Dunn allegedly shouted astatine a radical of national officers earlier hurling the sandwich astatine 1 of them.
Dunn was fired by the DOJ, wherever helium worked successful the transgression division's planetary affairs section, aft his arrest.
A idiosyncratic walks past creation enactment depicting erstwhile DOJ worker Sean Charles Dunn is displayed against a edifice partition connected August 17, 2025 successful the Adams Morgan vicinity of Washington.
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