Sean Dunn, the man who became known as Washington, D.C.'s "Sandwich Guy," was found not guilty of assault by a Washington, D.C. jury Thursday — and onlookers erupted with mockery.
Dunn had been accused of assault after he threw a Subway sandwich at a federal agent during the President Donald Trump-led occupation of the city.
The case grew increasingly difficult for the Justice Department, which failed to garner the support of a grand jury to indict Dunn on felony assault charges. Ultimately, they dropped the charges to a lower-level misdemeanor — and they still couldn't get a conviction.
Speaking to MSNBC after the verdict, legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that Dunn's lawyers were very smart about pointing out the incident became a joke among federal agents. At one point, the victim had a plush sandwich displayed at his desk and a "felony footlong" patch on his lunchbox.
National security analyst Marcy Wheeler pointed to Dunn's lawyer, saying, "Sabrina Shroff is a hero."
Dunn was celebrated by legal analysts like Bradley P. Moss, who cheered, "What do we want? Onions and mustard! When do we want it? Now!"
"After the U.S. government refused to give the jury in the sandwich trial any lunch -- not even a few slices of baloney -- they reached a verdict," lawyer and writer David R. Lurie wrote.
"Give me your wheat bread, your onions and mustard, your sandwich meat …. Yearning to be tossed," punned Moss in a later post.
"I love DC and DC juries so so so so much," Slate's legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern wrote on Bluesky. "Sorry not sorry, we are the best."
"All hail the Sandwich Guy! Justice has been served with a side of chips," cheered legal analyst Jen Taub.
"The grand jury refused to indict on felony charges so DOJ brought a misdemeanor. The trial jury acquitted—note: that means that every single person on the jury voted for acquittal. There wasn’t even a single vote to convict," former prosecutor Joyce Vance said.
"People yakking about Pirro, and other far reaching implications of the Dunn verdict are, in sandwich terms, baloney. The jury acquitted Dunn via a not guilty vote. That's it. Period. All the clackers imprinting their own thoughts on it are bogus," lawyer Bill Moore quipped.
"The taxpayers deserve to know how much this colossal waste of time & resources cost us. That includes Jeanne “Liquid Lunch” Pirro’s salary. Trump seems to think we’ll happily pay for everything. Tariffs, legal fees, golf trips, this, housing staff on military bases. Endless waste," said artist and editor Scott Cohen.
