A jury in Washington, D.C. has acquitted Sean Dunn, the man who was accused of assaulting a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officer by throwing a “sub-style sandwich” at him .
The case was handled by the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a former Fox News host and staunch ally of President Donald Trump. Her office had originally sought to have Dunn charged with felony assault, but after a federal grand jury rejected that idea , prosecutors aimed to charge him with a misdemeanor.
Although typically a rare occurrence, several cases in Washington D.C. have been rejected by grand juries , seen as being overreaches on the part of Trump’s Justice Department.
Dunn, who became known as the “D.C. Sandwich Guy,” became somewhat of a local folk hero following news of the sandwich th

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