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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Rachel Leingang and agencies

Man who threw sandwich at US federal agent found not guilty of assault

a man being handcuffed on the street
Federal officers arrest Sean Charles Dunn on 10 August in Washington DC after he allegedly threw a sandwich at a law enforcement official. Photograph: Andrew Leyden/Getty Images

A former Department of Justice employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington DC was found not guilty of assault by a DC jury on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.

Sean Charles Dunn, a former justice department paralegal, became a symbol of the resistance to Trump’s occupation in the nation’s capital when video of him, clad in a pink polo shirt and shorts, throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent, wearing a bulletproof vest, went viral.

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