Ex-DOJ worker who hurled sandwich at federal officer found not guilty

A erstwhile Department of Justice idiosyncratic connected proceedings for throwing a sandwich astatine a national serviceman successful Washington, D.C., earlier this twelvemonth was recovered not guilty on Thursday.

Sean Dunn struck a U.S. Customs and Border Protection cause (CBP) successful the thorax with a sandwich successful August. He was facing charges of assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating and interfering with a national officer.

Jurors deliberated for astir 7 hours earlier reaching a verdict. After it was read, Dunn hugged his lawyers successful the courtroom. 

"I judge that I was protecting the rights of immigrants. And fto america not hide that the Great Seal of the United States says, E Pluribus Unum," Dunn said aft the verdict was read. "That means, from many, one, each beingness matters, nary substance wherever you came from, nary substance however you got here, nary substance however you identify, you person the close to unrecorded a beingness that is free."

MAN CHARGED WITH FELONY AFTER ALLEGEDLY WHACKING FEDERAL AGENT WITH SANDWICH AMID TRUMP’S DC CRIME CRACKDOWN

Sean Dunn was accused of tossing a Subway sandwich astatine a national cause successful Washington, D.C. (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia)

During the trial, Dunn’s ineligible squad insisted helium threw the sandwich successful protestation of President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard successful Washington, D.C., and it was not a convulsive attack.

Video of the incidental rapidly went viral, with Dunn being heralded arsenic a leader by residents passim the metropolis who besides opposed Trump’s determination to inhabit the nation’s superior with national agents.

Dunn’s lawyers did not quality that Dunn threw the sandwich astatine a CBP serviceman extracurricular a nightclub, though they insisted it was done arsenic an "exclamation point" to explicit his antagonistic feelings astir the National Guard’s deployment wrong the nation’s capital.

FBI and Border Patrol officers talk with Sean Charles Dunn aft helium allegedly assaulted instrumentality enforcement with a sandwich Aug. 10, 2025, successful Washington, D.C.  (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

"It was a harmless motion astatine the extremity of him exercising his close to talk out," defence lawyer Julia Gatto said during the trial. "He is overwhelmingly not guilty."

FORMER DOJ WORKER WHO HURLED SANDWICH AT FEDERAL OFFICER CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR

Prosecutors argued that Dunn’s governmental expressions don’t marque him immune from prosecution for assaulting the agent.

FBI and Border Patrol officers apprehension Sean Charles Dunn aft helium allegedly assaulted instrumentality enforcement with a sandwich successful Washington, D.C., Aug. 10, 2025. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images )

Dunn was employed astatine the Justice Department arsenic an planetary affairs specializer successful its transgression part astatine the clip of the incident.

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After Dunn’s arrest, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced his firing successful a societal media station that referred to him arsenic "an illustration of the Deep State."

Fox News Digital’s Julia Bonavita, Greg Norman and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.