By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal prosecutors on Thursday dropped their effort to bring a felony charge against a man who was arrested for throwing a sub sandwich at a federal law enforcement agent carrying out President Donald Trump’s crackdown on Washington, D.C., after a grand jury declined to indict him.

Prosecutors charged former Justice Department employee Sean Dunn with a misdemeanor assault against a federal law enforcement officer. Misdemeanors are lesser charges than felonies and do not require grand jury approval.

It marked the second time this week that a Washington, D.C., grand jury had rebuffed the Justice Department’s attempt to bring felony charges against people protesting Trump’s crackdown, following a separate case in which federal p

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