"A D.C. jury acquitted Sean Dunn of assaulting an officer on Thursday, delivering another embarrassing setback to the Trump administration's effort to punish Washingtonians who oppose its crackdown on the city. Dunn-aka Sandwich Guy-became a folk hero in August after hurling a sub at an officer to protest President Donald Trump's deployment of federal forces in the District's streets. His acquittal comes on the heels of many similar humiliations for the administration:"
"Mark Joseph Stern: This has given me more hope than almost anything that has happened over the last 10 months. As a Washingtonian, it made me want to stand up and cheer. The acquittal shows that this was extraordinary federal overreach and a vindictive prosecution. To see 12 Washingtonians bravely stand up to that-it was one of the greatest acts of resistance to the regime that you could imagine."
"Dahlia Lithwick: This is one of those things that looks lighthearted, but it's a big, huge deal. The guy who yeeted a sub at a federal agent is, in fact, not going to be guilty of anything. Mark Joseph Stern: This has given me more hope than almost anything that has happened over the last 10 months. As a Washingtonian, it made me want to stand up and cheer."
The D.C. jury acquitted Sean Dunn of assaulting an officer after he threw a sandwich at a federal agent. Dunn became known as Sandwich Guy after hurling the sub in protest of President Donald Trump's deployment of federal forces in the District. The acquittal follows a pattern of D.C. grand juries and criminal juries refusing to indict or convict protesters on inflated charges of violence. The verdict reflects juror skepticism toward aggressive federal prosecutions and represents a form of local resistance that can be expressed through individual jury verdicts.
Read at Slate Magazine
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]