The trial for Sean Dunn, famously often called the “Sandwich Guy” who threw a sub at a federal agent in Washington, D.C., is totally underway and there’s some comedy gold happening within the courtroom.
Border Patrol Agent Gregory Lairmore took the stand Tuesday, almost three months after being nailed with a hoagie within the chest.
“It smelled of onions and mustard,” Lairmore mentioned on the stand, claiming he obtained a whiff after it “exploded” throughout his bulletproof vest.
The assistant U.S. attorneys prosecuting the case added to the hilarity with their court-submitted declare that “the defendant is being prosecuted for the obvious reason that he was recorded throwing a sandwich at a federal officer at point-blank range.”
Dunn, a 37-year-old Air Power veteran, was a welcome instance of humor within the face of the violent drive getting used on protesters throughout the nation. However he additionally exemplifies the Trump administration’s over-the-top authorized assaults on opposing voices.
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In August, Dunn was a Justice Division paralegal and simply considered one of many pissed off protesters who took to the streets of the nation’s capital after President Donald Trump despatched in Border Patrol brokers and the Nationwide Guard in response to what he labeled as a chaotic, unruly metropolis affected by crime and homelessness.
After the police carried out a 20-man operation to raid Dunn’s house and arrest him, the Division of Justice sought federal assault fees with a most sentence of eight years in jail, which is a hefty worth for lobbing a sub.
Which, once you consider it, feeds into the argument that the Trump administration is finishing up cruelty for cruelty’s sake in opposition to anybody who resists his autocratic strikes.
Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh is going through her personal federal indictment for allegedly slowing down an ICE officer’s automobile by sitting peacefully on the bottom.
Then there was Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia College alumni and authorized U.S. resident who was thrown right into a Louisiana ICE detention facility hundreds of miles away from his spouse and new child baby due to his activism and advocacy for Palestine.
However the protesters’ arrests, notably Dunn’s and Abughazaleh’s, merely body a bigger image of the cruelty being carried out in opposition to immigrants within the U.S.
Trump’s second time period has seen pregnant ladies manhandled, day laborers ambushed outdoors of Residence Depots, and immigrant households cowering of their properties in worry of ICE and Border Patrol’s wrath. And for these taken into custody, the alleged inhumane circumstances of their services alone have been motive for protest as nicely.
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Then once more, when you ask Trump and his lackeys, it’s the novel, frog-suit sporting leftists protesting within the streets that deserve the accusations of violence.
And whereas Dunn’s trial remains to be underway, the Justice Division’s ham-handed try to color a sandwich as a prison-worthy weapon solely provides to the Trump administration’s pile of bologna.
