""No matter who you are, you can't just go around throwing stuff at people because you're mad," Assistant U.S. Attorney John Parron told jurors on Tuesday at the start of Dunn's trial on a misdemeanor assault charge."
""It was a harmless gesture at the end of him exercising his right to speak out," Gatto said. "He is overwhelmingly not guilty.""
""He did it. He threw the sandwich," Gatto told jurors. "And now the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has turned that moment - a thrown sandwich - into a criminal case, a federal criminal case charging a federal offense.""
""You could smell the onions and the mustard," he recalled."
Sean Charles Dunn threw a submarine-style sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent outside a nightclub on Aug. 10 as a political protest against President Donald Trump's law-enforcement surge in Washington, D.C. A bystander's cellphone video of the confrontation went viral and murals depicting Dunn mid-throw appeared across the city. A grand jury declined to indict him on a felony assault count, and prosecutors charged him with a misdemeanor. Defense counsel characterized the act as a harmless expressive gesture and pleaded not guilty. The CBP agent testified the sandwich struck his chest, exploded on impact and that he could smell onions and mustard through his vest. Jurors must decide whether the act constitutes a federal crime.
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