Overview
- A Washington jury found Dunn not guilty after roughly seven hours of deliberations over two days following a three-day proceeding.
- Dunn was charged with minor assault and obstruction for throwing a sandwich at a CBP officer during an August incident on Washington’s U Street.
- Jurors reviewed cellphone and body-camera footage that showed the toss and his post-arrest remark, “I did it, I threw a sandwich.”
- Prosecutors said the act was an unlawful physical attack, while the defense portrayed it as a harmless protest gesture protected by the First Amendment.
- The episode cost Dunn his Justice Department job and turned him into a protest symbol as authorities mounted a heavy raid on his home and the White House posted a produced video of the action.