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Piro literally failed to get an indictment on a sandwich
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sop
(16,097 posts)Well done!
Liberal In Texas
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sheshe2
(93,872 posts)
Because that is what the charges were full of.
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BoRaGard
(7,586 posts)
steelyboo
(645 posts)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
(8,100 posts)Prairie Gates
(6,300 posts)He should get a $55 summons for disorderly conduct.
Felony assault on a federal agent? Pirro is a laughable drunk.
travelingthrulife
(3,291 posts)I am guessing 99.9% of those charges are bogus.
Justice matters.
(8,894 posts)But hey, (fake sensational) news at 6 get more attention and perhaps more ads revenue... 
not fooled
(6,471 posts)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
(95,738 posts)We can be Hero sandwiches.
thesquanderer
(12,773 posts)Solly Mack
(95,738 posts)
oasis
(52,910 posts) 
surfered
(9,308 posts)
underpants
(193,096 posts)
Emile
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Dr. T
(411 posts)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
(169,983 posts)yardwork
(68,068 posts)
malaise
(289,232 posts)Rec
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(128,811 posts)
Tetrachloride
(8,995 posts)Mr.WeRP
(950 posts)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
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
(169,983 posts)
wolfie001
(6,192 posts)
Endlessmike56
(32 posts)No indictment for you!
WestMichRad
(2,630 posts)… that will make him eligible for deportation?”
(barely)
gfarber
(100 posts)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
(8,100 posts)
Aviation Pro
(14,782 posts)Count on it.
Klarkashton
(4,058 posts)One way or another forever.
2na fisherman
(96 posts)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
(15,880 posts)the vendor. As a child this was a treat.
moniss
(8,100 posts)
IronLionZion
(49,919 posts)
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
(16,840 posts)One sandwich at a time.
You too can be a hero.
orangecrush
(26,752 posts)
barbtries
(30,771 posts)bless his heart, and i mean that in the kindest possible way.
gawd this administration wastes money.
OldBaldy1701E
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LetMyPeopleVote
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lame54
(38,421 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(169,983 posts)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.
— Raymond Norman (@raymondnorman.bsky.social) 2025-08-27T16:08:26.164Z
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...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/grand-jury-declines-indict-sandwich-guy-threw-sub-dc-federal-officer-rcna227464
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
(52,671 posts)"Mr. Dunn, you were supposed to throw a brick. What good is throwing a sandwich going to do?"
Captain Zero
(8,441 posts)Grand Jury is pissed about this whiney ass shit.
Warpy
(113,927 posts)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
(26,485 posts)Mad Linguist
(4 posts)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
(58,955 posts)In most states, I think.
LetMyPeopleVote
(169,983 posts)otchmoson
(217 posts)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
(2,564 posts)and an autocratic mission are the most dangerous snowflakes.
JohnnyRingo
(20,164 posts)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
(2,287 posts)a DA cannot indict a ham or any other sandwich, nor can a grand jury it seems
GreenWave
(11,639 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(169,983 posts)There are different ways of reading the stunning action by a Washington grand jury amid Trump’s federal crackdown on the nation’s capital.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/dc-sandwich-thrower-grand-jury-indictment-decline-matters-rcna227748
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
(169,983 posts)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
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
(169,983 posts)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.
— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-08-31T20:16:33.324Z
Grand jury rejects yet another felony indictment in Trump's D.C. crackdown www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-dc-crackdown-grand-jury-reject-felony-indictment-rcna228104
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.