FBI and Border Patrol agents speak with Sean Charles Dunn, the man suspected of attacking law enforcement with a sandwich along the U Street corridor during a federal law enforcement operation in Washington, D.C., on August 10, 2025.
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A federal jury in Washington, D.C., on Thursday acquitted former Justice Department employee Sean Dunn of assaulting a federal agent who threw him a Subway sandwich in August.
Dunn’s acquittal was the latest rebuke to the Justice Department in the case.
Prosecutors under U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro had previously failed to get a D.C. grand jury to indict Dunn on a felony assault charge.
Pirro’s office later filed misdemeanor charges against him, which went to trial this week.
Dunn was charged on Aug. 10 with throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection station along Washington’s U Street nightlife corridor. The officer and other federal officials were dispatched by President Donald Trump in response to what the president described as rampant crime in the nation’s capital.
“Damn you! You fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” Dunn allegedly yelled at a group of federal agents and threw a sandwich at one of them.
A person walks past an artwork depicting former Justice Department official Sean Charles Dunn on the wall of a restaurant in Washington’s Adams Morgan neighborhood on August 17, 2025.
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