Where protest movements take hold, symbols of resistance soon follow.
In Washington, since the Trump administration has taken over the city’s police force and ordered the National Guard to patrol the streets, that symbol has taken the form of a person who flung a footlong sub.
His name, colloquially, is “Sandwich Guy.”
Sandwich Guy’s real name is Sean Charles Dunn, a D.C. resident and former Department of Justice employee who was captured on video hurling a footlong at a federal officer and now faces a felony charge. A video of the incident, posted on Instagram under the account @bigap4l, quickly went viral.
It shows Dunn (prior to the lob heard ’round the District) pointing and shouting at officers crossing an intersection in a popular nightlife area. “F--- you, fascists,” he yelled,