Customs and Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore told the jury the snack “exploded all over him” and he “could smell the onions and mustard” on his uniform.
Neither side disputes that Sean Dunn, 37, did in fact lob obscenities and a deli-style sandwich at officers deployed by President Donald Trump to patrol the nation’s capital in August. But Mr Dunn’s lawyer argues it was not a criminal act.
The incident was captured on video and went viral, making Mr Dunn a symbol of opposition in Washington DC to Trump.
Government prosecutors initially tried to secure felony charges against Mr Dunn, but a grand jury declined to indict him. Prosecutors have instead charged him with a lower-level misdemeanour assault.
This is so fucking funny. I didn’t change the headline or body one character, this is BBC’s shining moment.
Video of incident from The Guardian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qODu0y6UVeI
They missed the best part:
Defense attorney Sabrina Shroff raised questions about Lairmore’s testimony during her cross examination, The Washington Post reported. She showed the courtroom a photo of the sandwich on the ground, almost entirely in its wrapper, after it struck the CBP agent, according to the Post.
“In fact that sandwich hasn’t exploded at all,” Shroff reportedly said.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5589032-sandwich-throws-cbp-agent/
There was a second sandwich. Thrown from the grassy knoll. A second sandwich!
Has to be, or that sub gained mustard in mid air , mind you. It would have to be a magic sub.
Now that’s hilarious, holy crap
A lawyer has to live for those moments.
Oh man I believe you missed the opening paragraph, which is also very funny.
A US imigration agent has testified he could feel through his ballistic vest the impact of a sandwich hurled at him by a Washington DC protester, who has gone on trial for assault.
I will be honest and say I don’t want to have a sandwich thrown at me, but that description is funny.
The fascists need to hurry up and spend millions of dollars to develop and distribute sandwich-proof vests to replace all of their military grade bullet-proof armor.
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Sandwiches are now illegal, there are only Freedom Flatpockets
Oh sure, then we’ll be safe from sub-style sandwiches, but what about the club sandwich? It’s got four triangles! Or god forbid the Manwich.
Oh shit, I did miss that. That poor guy, he got poked slightly.
He was forced to feel a sandwich while doing a fascism, the humanity!!!
This really is BBC’s shining moment, this is a brilliant article
If he felt a sandwich through his vest, we need to look more into who threw it.
Not for punishment, but because we need to protect what might be our first confirmed metahuman. Don’t need no anti-mutant bastards trying to take them out before they can learn to harness their sandwich-launching powers for even greater purpose.
Of course he felt it. He’d feel it if I gently poked his vest with my pinky. It’s not an Iron Man suit.
*gasp*! Terrorisms!!1!
Vest piercing sandwiches are a top secret CIA weapon. I read about them in some papers that I found in Trumps bathroom.
This is gonna be more fuel for Why veterans hate ICE.
“I could feel it through my ballistic vest,” he said of the sandwich’s impact, adding that an onion string hung from his police radio and mustard stained his shirt.
Not the dreaded onion string!!!
Working on my contract for mustard proof vests. Hint: they are yellow.
patent pending
Those protestors were terrible! Instead of mustard gas they used Dijon!
Dunn was subjected to excessive force after the thrown sandwhich, which clearly remained in its wrapper and did not “explode”, and while illiegal, caused the officer no actual injury at all. The officer did not ‘feel it through his ballistic vest’. Thats malicious lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKQqzdeIWZs
sounds like time served covers the incident, and an investigation should be opened into how Dunn was treated. Citizens should not be physically abused by TSA/ICE mallcops and they are unprofessional idiots who way out of control.
could smell the onions and mustard
Oh damn, now they’ll claim he was attacked with mustard gas…
“No matter who you are, you can’t just go around throwing stuff at people because you’re mad,” Mr Parron said, according to the New York Times.
Lmao it’s like a preschool argument
I hope a sample of the mustard was collected for the National Mustard Museum!
Tactical banh mi
Ballistic torta
It would be great if it had been a hot dog or some sort of controversial sandwich-like item so we could finally establish case law around these items.
if it had been a hot dog
gay rape!
Open-faced war crime.
Nuclear sub
Teachers have endured more assault from children.
I’m a sandwich artist, so please explain how a sandwich explodes. Not a meltdown. Explodes.
It was item C4 on the menu.
*golf clap*
“the ordinance was packed into a 6-inch she- covers mic -Excuse me, a 4 and a half-inch shell.”
What a beautiful meme. Thanks for reminding me to have a rewatch.
And this is why they’re not “meeting ICE enrollments” because THIS is the type of “man” that’s in ICE
They are terrified
Did he die
Yeah, by mustard overdose.
Gregory Lairmore is a cunt
The Cunt for Bread October.
