Customs and Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore told the jury the snack “exploded all over him” and he “could smell the onions and mustard” on his uniform.
Neither side disputes that Sean Dunn, 37, did in fact lob obscenities and a deli-style sandwich at officers deployed by President Donald Trump to patrol the nation’s capital in August. But Mr Dunn’s lawyer argues it was not a criminal act.
The incident was captured on video and went viral, making Mr Dunn a symbol of opposition in Washington DC to Trump.
Government prosecutors initially tried to secure felony charges against Mr Dunn, but a grand jury declined to indict him. Prosecutors have instead charged him with a lower-level misdemeanour assault.
They missed the best part:
Defense attorney Sabrina Shroff raised questions about Lairmore’s testimony during her cross examination, The Washington Post reported. She showed the courtroom a photo of the sandwich on the ground, almost entirely in its wrapper, after it struck the CBP agent, according to the Post.
“In fact that sandwich hasn’t exploded at all,” Shroff reportedly said.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5589032-sandwich-throws-cbp-agent/
There was a second sandwich. Thrown from the grassy knoll. A second sandwich!
Oh man I believe you missed the opening paragraph, which is also very funny.
A US imigration agent has testified he could feel through his ballistic vest the impact of a sandwich hurled at him by a Washington DC protester, who has gone on trial for assault.
I will be honest and say I don’t want to have a sandwich thrown at me, but that description is funny.
Dunn was subjected to excessive force after the thrown sandwhich, which clearly remained in its wrapper and did not “explode”, and while illiegal, caused the officer no actual injury at all. The officer did not ‘feel it through his ballistic vest’. Thats malicious lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKQqzdeIWZs
sounds like time served covers the incident, and an investigation should be opened into how Dunn was treated. Citizens should not be physically abused by TSA/ICE mallcops and they are unprofessional idiots who way out of control.
