Posted on 08/28/2025 8:56:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A kinder, gentler judicial system has emerged again in Washington, D.C., now that leftists are facing criminal charges over President Donald Trump’s move to curb crime in the city. The same system that put Paulette Harlow, a frail 77-year-old grandmother, in federal prison for blocking and praying in front of the door of a Washington abortion facility can’t find a thing wrong with a belligerent man whacking a law enforcement officer in the chest with a foot-long Subway sandwich and attempting to flee on foot.
Sean Charles Dunn, the disgraced hoagie hurler, was charged this month with a felony for “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and employees of the United States.” Video apparently shows him screaming, swearing, disturbing the peace, making physical contact with law enforcement, and creating a public danger — because things often escalate during a chase.
But prosecutors in the Department of Justice (DOJ) could not convince a grand jury in D.C. to indict Dunn. Unable to conceal its snark, The New York Times called it “a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent.”
As The Federalist previously reported, Dunn lost his job over the incident. Incredibly, he was an international affairs specialist at the DOJ, hired in 2022 under former President Joe Biden to serve in the Office of International Affairs, where he worked with “sensitive law enforcement matters that could impact the foreign relations and strategic interests of the United States.”
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Shocking! /s
Next they’ll arrest bacon lovers like in the UK
they just need to re-indict as a misdemeanor
a sandwich is not a dangerous weapon
Sausage lovers OK.
attacking a federal agent is a grave offence, as is fleeing
many J6’ers got years and decades in prison for no more than walking into a building and praying
That’s a serious tragedy. POTUS should pardon them if convicted federally.
The poofter deserved his charge. The Prosecutors did nothing wrong there. The problem is that DC democratic communists will never convict a fellow communist or Trump resister.
Sodom on the Potomac is on one of the gayest cities in America with a higher percentage of trannies than San Fran.
The bottom line, blind justice is completely dead in America now. We are expected to live up to the most strict extremist interpretation of the law. They can murder, torch buildings, pull down statues, assault the police, lay siege to a Federal building... and the courts turn them loose lightly or often simply drop charges.
It is a very bad thing for a country when people decide that they have no honest access to the courts.
He still lost his job so it still cost him.
That was my first thought as well. The local population that fills the jury pool is so tainted with left wingers they may not be able to indict anyone. It would be interesting to look at the people who sat on this case.
he already did
It might be time to significantly increase the fines for this type of thing.
It might be time to significantly increase the fines for this type of thing.
Won’t make a bit of difference. DC is 95% democrat-communist, and 42% black. They simply will not convict him no matter what the charge.
Also, the law does not require it to be a deadly weapon. That would have been a different, higher charge.
A battery on a police officer is more than just the risk that one officer faced. It is an attack on the community and rule of law.
If he would have thrown a sandwich and hit a judge, he would get a law level felony instantly.
The poofter was a federal lawyer and knew these concepts VERY clearly.
He was an international affairs specialist in the Justice Department’s criminal division. If someone in a proceeding lied to him, threw something at him and hit him, etc.... HE would have lead the charge to have it be a felony.
Countless grandparents got felony charges from J6 for walking in politely like tourists.
Your defense of this is not justified.
And all of America’s political trials (never thought I’d need THAT term) happen in DC or New York.
Think there is the slightest chance of convicting Bolton? Comey? Hillary?
All they need is one democrat on the jury and all the judges are hard left in that circuit. Over a third are foreigners.
DC cases need to be de assigned a random lotto. Every now and then we should see a case like Bolton or Comey assigned to the Midland Texas federal court.
The obvious end result is that people will take law into their own hands.
Which is what they want, they want something that can be labeled an “insurrection”.
90% Dem voters
Because the idiots tried to pin a felony on him. They should have charged him with misdemeanor assault and battery, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, and littering ... gotten a bench trial ... and put him away for a couple of months.
Instead, they overcharged ... he got no-billed (correctly) ... and now he's out on the street. Unemployed.
“blind justice is completely dead in America now”
It does seem to be but no—there’s still hope.
I have a weird sense of humor. Hoagie hurler made me start thinking of other terms that might be used. Sub slinger. Lunch launcher.
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