A DC grand jury declined to indict sandwich guy!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Piro literally failed to get an indictment on a sandwich

Link to tweet

[sop]

1. "Piro literally failed to get an indictment on a sandwich"

Well done!

[Liberal In Texas]

8. Yes. I hope it was a ham sandwich.

[sheshe2]

13. Bologna.

Because that is what the charges were full of.

[BoRaGard]

2. Why do republicons hate American sandwiches?

[steelyboo]

20. The Gestapo probably wants it illegal

because they are afraid it might ricochet off the ICE asshole, land on a homeless guy and accidentally feed the hungry. They can't have that shit going on while they are in charge!

[moniss]

32. Excellent point. nt

[Prairie Gates]

3. It was a ridiculous charge

He should get a $55 summons for disorderly conduct.

Felony assault on a federal agent? Pirro is a laughable drunk.

[travelingthrulife]

9. You can't pretend ICE officers are being assaulted unless you file assault charges.

I am guessing 99.9% of those charges are bogus.

[Justice matters.]

16. Her stupid-clown show costs taxpayers a lot more.

But hey, (fake sensational) news at 6 get more attention and perhaps more ads revenue...

[not fooled]

34. Although she prolly wasn't the decision maker

Word came from the fascists above her to go after this guy, I'll bet.

The only decisions she makes on her own are "red or white?"

[Solly Mack]

4. Yes!

We can be Hero sandwiches.

[thesquanderer]

22. Yes, we can be heroes, just for one day. (n/t)

[Solly Mack]

37. Yes

[oasis]

5. Heh, heh

[surfered]

6. This

[underpants]

53. Yeah. Yeah.

[Emile]

7. That federal agent is a Fragile Ass Snowflake! 😂

[Dr. T]

11. The federal agents were just

following President Snowflake's lead.

Hey MAGAts, are you sure you want your children to be just like Snowflake Donny? Do you want them to cry and have a text tantrum when someone says something mean about them?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Turns out you can't indict a ham sandwich.

Link to tweet

[yardwork]

56. Love it!

[malaise]

12. Good

Rec

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. She'll have to drink two boxes of wine to drown her sorrows

[Tetrachloride]

17. The Earl of Sandwich

[Mr.WeRP]

18. The Flag Burning Veteran was not charged

And several protesters who’ve been charged with crimes against ICE have also been released after prosecutors failed to get grand jury indictments, sometimes multiple times.

From the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/us/politics/trump-sandwich-assault-indictment-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

On Monday, for instance, prosecutors refiled a felony assault charge as a misdemeanor in the case of a woman who was accused of injuring an F.B.I. agent during a protest last month against immigration officials at the local jail in Washington.

The charges were reduced against the woman, Sidney Lori Reid, after prosecutors failed not just once but three times to obtain an indictment in the case.

That same day, at the request of prosecutors, a federal magistrate judge dismissed all charges against a man who was arrested at a Trader Joe’s grocery store last week for what the police said was possession of two handguns in his bag.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Subway is now featuring a new "$5 Footlong Felony."

Link to tweet

[wolfie001]

40. lol!!!

[Endlessmike56]

21. The Indictment Nazi

No indictment for you!

[WestMichRad]

23. "Can't we indict this guy on something...

… that will make him eligible for deportation?”

(barely)

[gfarber]

24. Sandwich Resistance

In D.C., a sandwich took flight,
A footlong launched deep in the night.
With mayo and bread,
It struck feds with dread—
Now it’s memed as resistance with bite.

A rebel in pink took a stand,
With a hoagie gripped firm in his hand.
He hurled lunch with flair,
Caused federal scare—
Now he's “armed” and the law's in demand.

He launched a bold hoagie with flair,
Prompting feds to respond with a stare.
Now murals proclaim
His sandwich-toss fame—
A deli revolt fills the air!

[moniss]

30. Burma Shave. nt

[Aviation Pro]

25. Many boxes of wine will be emptied today

Count on it.

[Klarkashton]

26. He lost his job and will be hounded by those bastards

One way or another forever.

[2na fisherman]

28. A boost to his career?

I hope one of the prestigious big law firms fighting against this regime will hire him on their legal team to direct his passionate assistance as a paralegal on the field of battles against Trump policies in court. He would make a highly motivated employee in this new career path.

[twodogsbarking]

27. I remember hot dog vendors throwing hot dogs at the ball park. Then the money would be handed from person to person to

the vendor. As a child this was a treat.

[moniss]

29. Lettuce rejoice!! nt

[IronLionZion]

31. A real hero

They can indict a ham sandwich but not a guy who throws a sub sandwich.

DC is covered in Banksy style sub thrower guy parody images these days if anyone wants a chuckle. They are posters not real graffiti.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/08/18/sandwich-guy-has-become-dcs-hero/

[llmart]

33. And THIS is how we fight!

One sandwich at a time.

You too can be a hero.

[orangecrush]

35. Open and shut bun

[barbtries]

36. thanks for the laugh.

bless his heart, and i mean that in the kindest possible way.

gawd this administration wastes money.

[OldBaldy1701E]

38. HAHAHA!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. Trump's Carnival of prosecutors failed to get an indictment against sandwich throwing man.

Link to tweet

[lame54]

41. Myth Busted

[LetMyPeopleVote]

42. Grand jury declines to indict man who threw a sandwich at federal officer in D.C.

The former Justice Department employee, who threw a sub at federal officers in Washington and came to be known as "Sandwich Guy," wasn't indicted on a federal felony charge.

Grand jury declines to indict man who threw a sandwich at federal officer in D.C.

The former Justice Department attorney who threw a sub at federal officers in Washington, and came to be known as "Sandwich Guy," was not indicted on a federal felony charge.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

— Raymond Norman (@raymondnorman.bsky.social) 2025-08-27T16:08:26.164Z

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/grand-jury-declines-indict-sandwich-guy-threw-sub-dc-federal-officer-rcna227464

WASHINGTON — You could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, the saying goes, but, in Washington, a federal grand jury just declined to indict a man for throwing a salami sub.

The grand jury did not return an indictment against a former Justice Department employee who was seen on camera throwing a hoagie at the chest of one of the federal officers President Donald Trump has deployed in the nation’s capital, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The grand jury’s decision not to indict Sean Dunn is another sign of pushback from Washington, D.C., residents over Trump's deployment of the National Guard and other federal law enforcement agencies in the city, who have put a particular focus on immigration enforcement. The New York Times was first to report the news.......

It's not the first time federal prosecutors have had trouble getting a Washington-based grand jury to indict a resident who opposed the new law enforcement presence in D.C. Federal prosecutors failed to obtain an indictment of a woman who was arrested for allegedly assaulting an FBI special agent at an immigration-related protest, the Times reported.

It is highly unusual for grand juries not to indict, given that the standard is probable cause rather than beyond a reasonable doubt as it would be at trial, and because grand jurors typically hear only from prosecutors.

[jmowreader]

43. He's been re-indicted for inappropriate use of force

"Mr. Dunn, you were supposed to throw a brick. What good is throwing a sandwich going to do?"

[Captain Zero]

47. I got money on still no indictment

Grand Jury is pissed about this whiney ass shit.

[Warpy]

44. I said from the beginning that the only thing this rated

was the presentation of a bill to the sandwich thrower for professionally cleaning that uniform.

I do wish all attacks against LEOs were this non lethal.

[Martin68]

45. Attacked by a sandwich. Meanwhile, adult rifles are killing children and you're issuing prayers.

[Mad Linguist]

46. A Hero is Born

That Po' Boy was a real Hero!

He never should have been charged with a crime. Assault and battery? No, salty and buttery!

A hardworking man like that is a real hustle and Grinder!

At the end of the day, he was free to take the Subway home.

[DFW]

54. Force-feeding law enforcement is only a misdemeanor

In most states, I think.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

55. Welcome to DU

[otchmoson]

48. Teachable moment

I applaud the grand jury . . . but this needs to be a teachable moment. The ENTIRE pool of potential jurors need to read and understand the power of JURY NULLIFICATION. Lawyers and judges intentionally do not speak of this power. I would like to see a Democratic Underground lawyer explain to all of us the ins-and-outs of jury nullification in a powerful and succinct resistance moment.

[ToxMarz]

49. Snowflakes with a badge, a mask, a gun

and an autocratic mission are the most dangerous snowflakes.

[JohnnyRingo]

50. They over charged him. Usually a rookie mistake.

It's like hoping a grand jury would have given the nod to an attempted murder charge.
Clearly the GJ didn't feel a felony was warranted in this case. I'll be surprised if Trump doesn't sign an XO giving him the right to bypass the process when he sees fit.

[keroro gunsou]

51. law and order was wrong

a DA cannot indict a ham or any other sandwich, nor can a grand jury it seems

[GreenWave]

52. What did the SUB-stitute jurors think?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

57. Deadline: Legal Blog-It matters why the grand jury in D.C. declined to indict sandwich thrower Sean Dunn

There are different ways of reading the stunning action by a Washington grand jury amid Trump’s federal crackdown on the nation’s capital.

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https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/dc-sandwich-thrower-grand-jury-indictment-decline-matters-rcna227748

We know that a grand jury in Washington refused to indict sandwich thrower Sean Dunn. But we don’t necessarily know why.

It’s a stunning result with serious implications no matter what motivated the rejection. Yet, what those implications are, exactly, could depend on the rationale for refusing to approve a felony charge against the man who became a folk hero in D.C. amid the Trump administration’s federal crackdown in the nation’s capital......

But something bigger may have been at play: jury nullification. That’s when jurors believe that prosecutors have proved the technical elements of the case but, nonetheless, the jury renders a moral objection by way of a not guilty verdict (or in the case of a grand jury, a “no true bill”).

To put the question one way: Did grand jurors think the government did a bad job, or a bad thing?.....

Importantly, we have more than Dunn’s case to go on in analyzing this phenomenon. There’s the even more shocking recent failure of D.C. prosecutors to get an indictment against Sidney Reid a whopping three times. She was initially charged under the same federal assault statute as Dunn. After striking out in the grand jury, prosecutors reduced her case to a misdemeanor, which doesn’t require grand jury approval.

Let’s assume for a moment that grand jurors in both the Dunn and Reid cases just thought there wasn’t enough proof to charge them with felonies. The known facts of both cases certainly allow for that possibility. Through that lens, the message to prosecutors is that they need to more carefully evaluate the quality of cases they bring.

But if the message is that the people of D.C. are declining to approve charges despite the evidence presented to them, that’s something that should worry prosecutors even more.

I am personally voting that both cases are jury nullification and Piro needs to worry if she takes these cases to trial.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

58. After failing to get felony indictment, feds charge DC sandwich thrower with a misdemeanor

Piro loses again. This lady cannot indict a ham sandwich for a felony and so is going for a misdemeanor (where she does not have to go to a grand jury)

Link to tweet

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/after-failing-felony-indictment-feds-charge-dc-sandwich/story

Federal prosecutors have charged the man accused of throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol agent in Washington, D.C., earlier this month with a misdemeanor after a grand jury refused to indict him on a more serious felony assault charge on Wednesday, according to court records filed Thursday.

Sean Dunn has now been charged through a criminal information, which did not require sign-off by a D.C. grand jury.

Prosecutors failed to convince a grand jury to charge Dunn with a felony, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday......

The incident came amid heightened tensions over federal law enforcement presence in the District after President Donald Trump deployed federal law enforcement agents and National Guard troops to Washington declaring a public safety emergency and putting the Metropolitan Police Department under partial federal oversight.

Dunn's attorney and the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

59. Deadline: Legal Blog-Grand jury rejects yet another felony indictment in Trump's D.C. crackdown

In at least three cases so far, grand jurors have refused to approve felony charges against people the administration said assaulted law enforcement.

Strike four … Trump’s unqualified DOJ may please him, but they’re losing like nobody’s ever seen before in front of the Grand Jury.

Grand jury rejects yet another felony indictment in Trump's D.C. crackdown www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-08-31T20:16:33.324Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-dc-crackdown-grand-jury-reject-felony-indictment-rcna228104

Whatever is happening, it’s not normal. That’s true of much else these days, but this latest stark chapter goes to the heart of the justice system. While it’s well understood that trial juries wield significant power, grand juries can shape, curb or kill cases at their inception. Most cases easily move past the grand jury stage. But grand jurors in D.C. aren’t acting as a rubber stamp.

We already knew about the whopping triple failure to indict Sidney Reid, as well as the failure to do the same against sandwich thrower Sean Dunn. Both cases are proceeding as misdemeanors instead of felonies after grand juries rejected more serious charges of assaulting law enforcement.

Now, grand jurors have declined to approve another indictment in a case charged under that same assault statute. This one involves Alvin Summers, whose case prosecutors actually moved to dismiss (though “without prejudice,” meaning they could try again later, a distinction that dominated the saga surrounding New York City Mayor Eric Adams). Seeking a permanent dismissal on Thursday, Summers’ lawyers wrote that the officer’s testimony “was rejected by the grand jury, presumably after reviewing the body-worn camera video.”....

That previously led me to wonder, in examining the Reid and Dunn cases, whether grand jurors simply thought prosecutors couldn’t satisfy the relatively low evidentiary burden at this preliminary stage of a case, or whether grand jurors were making more profound statements of nullification, the latter referring to situations in which jurors believe prosecutors have proved their cases but nonetheless reject them because they find the prosecutions or what they represent offensive.

The implications of either scenario are striking. And remember, this is just what we know about what has happened so far. This incredible story is still being written, but it’s one that can’t be ignored amid everything else that’s abnormal in these times.