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“He did it. He threw the sandwich.”

That’s how the defense counsel for Sean Dunn, the man who threw a sub-style sandwich at a Border Patrol officer in Washington, DC, this summer began the federal trial against him Tuesday morning.

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[-] klemptor@startrek.website 11 points 4 weeks ago

I cannot believe we're wasting taxpayer dollars on a ballistic hoagie attack.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 9 points 4 weeks ago
[-] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 points 4 weeks ago

This is so good it should be illegal.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago
[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I'm sure we all know the phrase that a prosecutor could get a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich". It took prosecutors THREE Grand Juries to finally get an indictment for someone throwing that sandwich.

It's all a complete waste of time and taxpayer funds, and in any other point in history these prosecutors would have been fired immediately for incompetence at even considering an indictment in the first place, not even considering the possibility that they would try for three attempts.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Actually, it's even stupider than that I'm pretty sure, two grand juries refused to give them an indictment for a felony charge, so they brought a way less severe misdemeanor charge because you don't have to get a grand jury to sign off on those, and that's what we're wasting this time on

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

They never got the indictment. The prosecutor had to downgrade the charges from a felony to a misdemeanor, which doesn’t have to go before a grand jury.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I didn't even realize that, last I had heard was them putting it before the third jury, and then that there was going to be a trial.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I hope a news outlet has the boldness to run this story after one showing DHS brutality, including the taxpayer costs, and before one about SNAP, healthcare and the shutdown. This administration is well past the point of pissing on Americans while telling them it's raining.

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago

ballistic hoagie attack

Band name

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

"ballistic submarine missile" was right there

[-] derry@midwest.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

Dear Lord don't you know this will lead to ICBMs! Intercontinental ballistic meatballs are nothing to be trifled with. Next they'll add mozzarella to them

[-] milkisklim@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

If it makes you feel any better, because of the shutdown, we aren't spending money on this. \s

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