While it is of course illegal to throw anything at anyone this should be treated as civil disobedience or an act causing negligible societal harm and be dismissed.
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Technically, it was a “meat sandwich” thrown at “point-blank range” only to “explode” all over.
*actual language from the trial. Probably the hottest action meal-team 6 ever got.
To be fair, this dude singlehandedly carried out a submarine attack.
The DoJ is on the hunt, for bread October.
A ballistic missile is a type of missile that follows a ballistic trajectory and is powered only during a relatively brief initial period—most of the flight is unpowered.
It's practically an act of war if you think about it.
Hoagie handgrenade.
If corporations are people, then sandwiches are speech.
The US Attorney prosecuting misdemeanors as a priority now? How much more desperate is this adminstation trying to appear?
It's not about the act itself, but about what it represents: resistance to the new regime. He needs to be made an example of just for that.
It’s only a misdemeanor because the injuries sustained were only categorized as boo-boos. If they had been ouchies, we would be looking at felony charges.
You don't understand, he could smell the mustard! He probably hates mustard!
Don forget about the onions!!
Only monsters don't like- oh, right
It was French's mustard, clearly an illegal immigrant sandwich. This Dunn guy was aiding an illegal alien's assault of an officer.
They tried for felony charges. Multiple times. The grand juries (plural) refused to indict.
Thank god they were wearing vest, they could have died!
Sweaty.
“What is the charge? Throwing a meal? A succulent cold-cut meal?”
"This is democracy manifest!"
I love that this meme will never die.
“…and you, sir- are you waiting to receive my limp sandwich?”
For those who thought this guy was past this...
A grand jury refused to indict Dunn on a felony assault count, part of a pattern of pushback against the Justice Department’s prosecution of surge-related criminal cases. After the rare rebuke from the grand jury, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office charged Dunn instead with a misdemeanor.
They need for this to be a crime, otherwise it sets a precedent of what can be legally done to a federal agent without legally sanctioned retaliation.
You have to yell "food fight!" before you do something like that
Assault with a deli weapon.
Clearly Trump is trying to make an example of him. A jury trial for a single misdemeanor? Either way, there’s good odds he’ll be financially ruined by the lawyer bill. A trial is a minimum of $15k to start.
This will become an exemplar for We The People to self police going forward.
If he hasn't crowd funded his legal expenses it's because he's actively choosing not to. He could be grifting this so hard.
Is it a grift if you need the money for the stated purpose?
No, I mean he could raise way more than his defense will cost. He's kind of one of the mythic figures of the resistance.
When the early revolution is recorded to history, we'll remember such luminaries as the Portland Frog, Polka Dot Lady, and Sandwich Guy.
A jury trial for a single misdemeanor?
That's your right. The defendant can choose whether to have a jury or bench trial.
Clearly in this case you want the jury. You want them to look at the ridiculousness of the case and throw it the fuck out regardless of the legality.
Felony Footlong
I feel like this should just be a fine. Seems like a waste of resources.
Shouldn't even be a fine, it was a fucking sandwich.
that sandwich had a REALLY HARD CRUST dude!
Producer Amy Pascal threw a sandwich at producer Kevin Feige over a disagreement about bringing Spiderman into the MCU
Please go to jury. I want to know if jury nullification will happen.
The trial already started... That's the point of the article. The first paragraph mentions the jury...
And in the near future those things will always be both.