Pour vous.
[image or embed]— LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) August 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The DC sandwich guy has been charged with assault for shouting at a CBP officer, throwing a sub into his chest, and then running off.
“I did it. I threw the sandwich,” he said while he was being processed.
[image or embed]— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) August 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Unsurprisingly, the local Washington Post has the best information [gift link]:
… In court documents filed Wednesday, police allege that Sean Charles Dunn approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and began yelling obscenities and calling them “fascists.”
At about 11:05 p.m., according to the federal court filing, Dunn, 37, approached an officer and threw a sandwich at him. He was charged with “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and employees of the United States.”…
“If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you,” Bondi posted on X Thursday. “This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ.”
Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, announced in a video posted on X on Wednesday afternoon that Dunn would be charged with a felony.
Dunn was an international affairs specialist in the criminal division of the Justice Department, according to a person who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel matters. The D.C. resident made an initial appearance before a magistrate judge in federal court Thursday afternoon.
Prosecutors said he was being charged with forcibly assaulting, resisting or impeding a federal officer, which is punishable by up to eight years in prison. Dunn has no criminal history and would not be eligible for the maximum penalty at sentencing if convicted.
Dunn gave only a few brief answers to the magistrate judge’s questions, but smiled as he conferred with his defense attorney, Sabrina Shroff, after the court agreed to release him on his own recognizance for now.
Shroff said that following his arrest on Sunday, Dunn was taken to D.C. Superior Court and then released without being charged. On Wednesday, a federal warrant was issued, charging him with a felony.
In court, Shroff said that she and Dunn worked to facilitate his voluntary surrender Wednesday but it was unclear which prosecutor at the U.S. attorney’s office was responsible for the case.
Shroff said the government sent “20 police officers to his home” to arrest Dunn Wednesday night and did not allow him to call her.
“He did absolutely the most responsible thing by trying to surrender,” said Shroff, who noted that Dunn is an Air Force veteran. The court scheduled a preliminary hearing in the case for Sept. 4…
Video of Dunn’s incident, which took place near the corner of 14th and U streets NW, a popular nightlife area in D.C., shows a man in a pink collared shirt, shorts, crew socks and New Balance running shoes yelling at several law enforcement officers while holding a sandwich. As he turned to walk away, he hurled his hoagie at the chest of one of the officers and then ran off with the officers in pursuit.
The video was posted on Instagram under the account @bigap4l and quickly went viral…
The WaPo‘s chatbot comment summary says “The comments reflect a mix of humor, sarcasm, and criticism regarding the Justice Department’s response to Sean Charles Dunn’s arrest for throwing a sandwich at an officer. Many commenters view the felony charge as an overreaction, especially when compared to the perceived leniency towards January 6th insurrectionists. Some express admiration for Dunn’s actions, seeing them as a form of protest against the current administration, while others criticize the inconsistency in law enforcement priorities. Overall, the comments suggest a general disapproval of the severity of the charges against Dunn.”
Oh my.
Sabrina Shroff, who is formidable, is representing that subway thrower guy.— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The thing about charging him with assault for throwing a sandwich is that it exposes the historic lie of “assaulting an officer.”
[image or embed]— Saeed Jones (@theferocity.bsky.social) August 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Hoagie assault guy, if convicted, will be punished more strongly than J6 folks who beat police officers with poles and other objects and are now walking free (and probably joining CBP)
— Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) August 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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— Paula Marie Young, J.D., LL.M. (@paulamarieyoung.bsky.social) August 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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probably the only sandwich I’d throw at a cop is a Subway one because it’s just the perfect match of disrespect in terms of medium and message
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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If you told me 10 years ago that I’d sympathize with a guy who hit a cop with a sandwich, I’d probably have hit you with a sandwich.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) August 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Maybe @djinnandtonic.bsky.social can make a “A Ham and Cheese from Heaven” or something like that
[image or embed]— Nick (@nickwidzowski.bsky.social) August 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Goodnight footlong sandwich, goodnight moon, goodnight Epstein Files in the White House panic room 🌙✨
— Deirdre Assenza (@deirdreassenza.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Justice for sandwich bro!
— surfer slacker stoner spy (@briansantacruz.bsky.social) August 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
War for Ukraine Day 1,267: Subversion
Kelly
While serving on a grand jury this year I discovered Oregon has a specific felony for spitting on a police officer.
H.E.Wolf
Fascists hate being made to look ridiculous.
hitchhiker
God, I hate Pirro. What an absolute waste of space that woman is.
Jackie
Footlongs are gonna be banned by presidential executive order. Right?
Another Scott
Something something malicious prosecution. Something something jury nullification something something.
(Yeah, IANAL, so recognize there are lots of details that have been elided.)
This is yet another illustration why sensible prosecutors, US Attorneys, Attorneys General, are necessary for us to have a free country. When monsters have access to the tremendous power of the state, any infraction – no matter how objectively small – can have over-the-top severe consequences.
Grr…
Eyes on the prizes.
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Scott.
JCJ
Perhaps everyone should pack sandwiches when going to a protest. Make peanut butter and honey on cheap white bread. Sticky and messy. Might get charged with inciting a dry cleaning bill.
prostratedragon
🎼🎶 I, I, I!
I threw the sandwich.
But I didn’t throw a chocolate shake.🎵
Not as stirring as other versions maybe, but these are our times.
NotMax
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea no longer stands alone in launching a flying sub.
;)
lgerard
Props for it being a salami sandwich
frosty
@prostratedragon: Very nice! Especially tying it into milkshake memes.
Old School
Thank goodness he didn’t come at the officer with a banana.
JCJ
@Old School: Imagine if he put a banana in the tailpipe!
JCJ
Also- kudos to the “Battle for D.C.” artist, but I don’t think Rage Against The Machine will cut an album to pair with their Battle of Los Angeles album
thruppence
Will T-shirts with pictures of subway sandwiches now get you arrested?
Shalimar
Is this the first felony feds have filed in their multi-day occupation? If DC violence is so out of control, why have they not found any of it in 3 days so far?
geg6
Ms. Assenza wins, IMHO. Brilliant.
John Revolta
Damn, the guy damn near outran four or five of these fascist assholes. Another 50 yds and he’d have smoked ’em
Westyny
It was a Subway sandwich. That’s like a nerf sandwich. A foam pool noodle is deadlier.
SpaceUnit
Sandwich throwing is the gravest of crimes.
Keith P.
@Westyny: But what about the vinegar? And “MAYO!” is a battle cry for Venezuelan street gangs, as everyone knows.
BlueGuitarist
Repeating some comments i saw:
Violence baguettes violence
Assault with a deli weapon
Not all gyros wear capes
(Greek pronunciation of gyros = heroes)
SpaceUnit
Joke all you want assholes, but the officer struck by the sandwich will require a lifetime of therapy.
Aziz, light!
Deep State Subs, the newest chain of sandwich shops. Don’t ask them to tell you what’s in the secret sauce.
prostratedragon
He must have known he was about, eh, done around DOJ under the present regime.
@frosty:
🙏🌟
Splitting Image
We can be gyroes, just for one day.
moonbat
Just want to register my disappointment at the degradation of world civil protest in general in the last 30-some odd years. China gets Tank Guy and we get a brave soul chucking a hoagie at goons almost too out of shape to even chase him.
But I’ll take civil protest wherever I can get it. Go, Subway Sandwich Chucker!
VeniceRiley
Everyone go to Subway and order a footlong antifa.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
Am I the only one getting flashbacks to “Meet the Sandvich“? (I bet I’m the only one.)
And I suppose the bright side of this atrocity, such as it is, is that we can clearly the IOKIYAR principle, where a man throwing a sandwich at Republican-sponsored storm troopers is treated as a greater threat than a lynch mob storming the Capitol to stop Democrats from legally assuming power (and killing cops in the process, let’s not forget that).
Aussie Sheila
I realise this is off topic and it relates to a thread below, re other democracies condemning events in the U.S.
I am adamantly opposed to this idea.
1. Like it or not, the US electorate spoke in 2024, including those that didn’t vote. I have seen absolutely no convincing evidence that the election wasn’t free and fair, insofar as US federal elections go.
2. Leaders of other democracies have a duty of care to their peoples and nations. Right now, any burbling about trump risks higher tariffs and god knows what other blowback.
3. US citizens who actually voted for the demented criminal moron won’t thank countries appearing to interfere in their own democratic choice. I know I damn well wouldn’t if the shoe was on the other foot.
4. The most valuable clapback to your unenviable plight is a mass movement of civil disobedience.
At home.
Anything else is simply a suicide note. For all concerned.
Ten Bears
If you must throw something, throw rocks. Soup cans. Cat food
Mayonnaise milkshakes …
Deputinize America
Since John Taney Roberts is burning our fucked up constitution while shitting on the Declaration of Independence, I fully expect a venue transfer to the Northern District of Texas to be moved for and upheld.
Deputinize America
@NotMax:
God, that was beautiful.
On this subject, isn’t the flying sub the same craft as the “plane” from Land of the Giants?
Deputinize America
@Aussie Sheila:
Yup. Peaceful protests won’t cut it.
Basilisc
How naive of Bondi to think the Deep State exerts its influence by throwing salami sandwiches. In fact the true sleeper agents spend years infiltrating every part of the federal bureaucracy, quietly building their influence and knowledge, so that they can one day instigate deadly assaults on real Americans through such media as grilled camembert, prosciutto and olive tapenade.
sab
@Deputinize America: Hopefully Pirro will want to keep jer grubby paws on this case. That’s why he appointed her to DC.
schrodingers_cat
Mass peaceful protests brought down the British Empire in India, The Apartheid Regime in South Africa and Jim Crow in the South. But I see them poohed regularly on BJ.
Aussie Sheila
@schrodingers_cat:
I haven’t seen them poo poohed here at all. However, you are right about the liberation movement in India of course. And about the black liberation movement in the US. About South Africa, I’m not so sure. I was there not long after Mandela was freed.
The vibe very much was ‘free Mandela and free elections, but don’t touch the economic foundations.’
The outcome of that wasn’t ….optimal. Factions of the ANC were corrupt, and the outcome for land reform and redistribution of income was not good.
At all.
Betty Cracker
Bluesky had a fun regional food projectile challenge topic in the wake of the Sandwich Bro incident. Here was my contribution:
Aussie Sheila
@Betty Cracker:
Excellent. Both to taste and heft in a crisis!
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: What a waste of a good crab. Those look delicious.
sab
@Aussie Sheila: Comment #33 is pooh-poohing it. There’s another commenter who does so nightly in almost every thread.
But I do agree strongly agree with your comment above about our current situation being our domestic problem.
Aussie Sheila
@Deputinize America:
I agree. But mass civil disobedience has to be disciplined and organised. Black Americans could do it. I’m not so sure about the capacities of a much broader and more inchoate ‘resistance’ in the US. I’m mindful that the demented criminal moron got 49.9% of the actual votes cast. I understand that leaves a lot more people than the actual 2024 electorate, however in my experience the US working class movement is highly sectorial, lacks even the most basic solidarity and is easily distracted.
It also lacks even a sedimentary political orientation. I understand that the US TU movt rejected organised political affiliation or action in the late 19th, early 20th century.
I respect the decision of course.
But it was an egregious mistake imo.
One that every minority and the working class as a whole can look back on with regret. Especially those that lament the lack of organisational discipline within the US Democratic Party.
schrodingers_cat
@sab: And I find it darkly hilarious that the people who find voting onerous are the ones to lead this so called revolution.
p.a.
I like the thrown sangwedge (local pronounciation) idea; there’s no telling what kind of symbols click. Also too, cheap plastic gold-colored wall curlicues are not aerodynamic.
prostratedragon
@Betty Cracker:
The Chicago dog: the fragmentation grenade of edible missles, with a chemical feature.
sab
@schrodingers_cat: South African apartheid was brought down by internarional efforts, because international economic boycotts were doing serious economic harm to their businesses.
Didn’t Gandhi start out in South Africa and give up there?
schrodingers_cat
@sab: It wasn’t South Africa then. He didn’t give up. Some of his efforts were successful. He became a minor political celebrity and was invited to India by the leader of the moderate faction of the INC (Indian National Congress)
International boycotts helped but without ANC’s organizing muscle it would not have been enough to bring down the apartheid regime.
ANC was inspired by the INC BTW.
Aussie Sheila
@schrodingers_cat:
Who said that non voters are the ones to lead this? I have never heard or read such a thing.
However successful liberation movements succeed to the extent they draw in the heretofore non involved or apathetic. Committed partisans are easy.
Real organising requires the capacity to actually organise people who aren’t immediately partisan.
As Gandhi succeeded in doing, when he galvanised the Indian masses in his ‘salt march’.
I know national liberation movements are different from internal movements against domestic regimes, but the basis of the organising principles remain the same.
schrodingers_cat
@Aussie Sheila: Your response suggests that you didn’t get what I was talking about, at all.
Aussie Sheila
@schrodingers_cat:
Okay. So what did I miss?
Non voters in the US will certainly have to be organised, or at least mobilised in order to defeat the current regime, but as to ‘leading the resistance’?
I have never heard or read such a thing.
But if you can point me to such a thing I would be grateful.
schrodingers_cat
@Aussie Sheila: Sarcasm.
Aussie Sheila
@schrodingers_cat:
Oh, okay. Maybe you need to be a little more precise in your general denunciations.
It’s sometimes difficult to discern general slander from the point.
Ksmiami
The first step is a Free Sandwich Bro movement
lowtechcyclist
No offense to our local gyro, but wouldn’t donuts be the proper thing to throw at cops, given all the old cliches about cops and donuts?
I’d go with Krispy Kreme glazed, since they’re basically air held together with a thin layer of bread and sugar. That way one wouldn’t be wasting a donut that was worth eating. Though there’s an argument for jelly-filled, for that nice, satisfying splat.
different-church-lady
The thing that really pisses me off about Pirro’s comment is the guy very obviously didn’t think anything about this was funny. It was nothing but justified outrage. Pirro’s saying more about herself than him.
different-church-lady
@lowtechcyclist: You go to war with the bakery items you have, not the bakery items you wish you had.
thruppence
@lowtechcyclist: I’d go with Hostess Donettes, sold in packages of five, the powdered sugar ones would leave a satisfying white puff. The downside is that if you don’t throw them, you might have to eat them, and they’re not that good.
Paul in KY
@Aussie Sheila: Oh, we own him. That’s for sure.
Paul in KY
@Deputinize America: That was the land based version.
Paul in KY
@schrodingers_cat: Think the Palestinians (probably in West Bank mostly) should try them. They do work when correctly orchestrated, and be massive.
Paul in KY
@Betty Cracker: Man, those look good. Too nice to chuck at a fascist lickspittle. Go buy or make a nasty sub.
different-church-lady
@Aussie Sheila: “Mr. Hitler was appointed to his post legally, so I’m not sure condemning his actions is appropriate.”