Overview
- Jurors found Dunn not guilty after roughly seven hours of deliberations over two days following a three-day trial.
- Prosecutors had charged minor assault and obstruction tied to an August incident in which Dunn threw a sandwich at a CBP officer in a busy D.C. neighborhood.
- The panel reviewed cellphone and body-camera footage, and evidence included Dunn’s post-arrest statement acknowledging he threw the sandwich.
- The government argued the act impeded law enforcement, while the defense cast it as a harmless, symbolic protest protected by the First Amendment.
- Dunn lost his Justice Department job after the episode, which later drew a high-profile police response and a White House-produced video, and the image of the toss became a rallying emblem for protesters citing President Trump’s mass arrest directives.