Overview

• Prosecutors sought a felony assault indictment, but jurors declined, resulting in a single misdemeanor count of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers.
• A bystander video and police affidavit say Sean Charles Dunn threw a sub-style sandwich at a CBP agent on Aug. 10 after shouting at officers.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi fired Dunn, a 37-year-old international affairs specialist in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, following his arrest.
• The White House posted footage of his arrest filmed by an embedded social media team, drawing more than 2 million views as the sandwich image spread as a protest symbol.
• Grand juries have refused to return felony indictments at least eight times since Trump’s policing surge in Washington, as more than 2,000 people have been arrested and prosecutors have sought dismissal in eight cases.