Dunn attempted to flee on foot before being apprehended, documents and video of the incident shows.
He later returned and threw the sandwich.
Lairmore said he “could feel it through his ballistic vest” and it “exploded all over” him after the Subway stack hit him.
After his arrest, Dunn was fired from his job as a paralegal in the Justice Department.
According to a Justice Department source, Dunn worked at the Office of International Affairs within the department’s Criminal Division as a paralegal.
A sandwich “exploded all over him” following a D.C, according to testimony given by a Customs and Border Patrol agent in federal court on Tuesday. During an angry tirade against President Trump’s federal policing crackdown and National Guard deployment in the nation’s capital this summer, a man threw a sub-style sandwich at him.
After facing a single misdemeanor assault charge, Sean Dunn has emerged as a symbol of opposition to Mr. Trump’s DdotC. on the first day of his criminal trial, sat in a packed courtroom while witnesses, jurors, and even onlookers tried to maintain a straight face.
“He did it, he threw the sandwich,” Julia Gatto, Dunn’s lawyer, stated in her opening remarks to a DdotC. their client has “very strong feelings” about the federal takeover of D by the Trump administration, the jury added. A.
An “harmless gesture that did not, could not, cause injury” is how Gatto described the viral sub-toss. “,”.
Agent Gregory Lairmore of the Customs and Border Patrol, who was struck by the footlong sub, testified Tuesday about his encounter with Dunn, who is seen screaming at the agent and other officers nearby on the video of the incident before hurling the wrapped sandwich at the officer’s chest. According to incident footage and documents, Dunn tried to escape on foot before being caught.
Dunn shouted, “F*** you! You f***ing fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city,” before crossing the street, according to the charging documents. When he came back, he tossed the sandwich.
Dunn was “red-faced” and “enraged” at one point by the police presence at a busy intersection in Northwest Washington, D.C., according to Lairmore, who claims he captured the majority of Dunn’s rage before catching the sandwich in his ballistic vest. C.
Another witness described Lairmore’s explanation of the “baseball pitch” of a sub throw to the laughter of the room.
When the Subway stack struck him, Lairmore claimed he “could feel it through his ballistic vest” and it “exploded all over” him. Later that evening, he had an onion string hanging by his police radio, and he claimed to “could smell the onions and mustard” on his uniform. He said his shirt was stained by the mustard from the fast food.
Following the incident, Dunn’s lawyers questioned Lairmore about two gag presents that his coworkers had given him: a stuffed submarine sandwich and a “felony footlong” patch that Lairmore claimed to have placed on his lunchbox.
They also asked Lairmore why there were only a bystander’s video on Instagram that showed the sandwich largely undamaged and no pictures of the sandwich after it was thrown or of stains on his shirt. “The Metropolitan Police Department in D.C,” Lairmore said. assumed control of the inquiry following Dunn’s arrest, and according to Lairmore, the sandwich looked at least “bent and out of shape” in its wrapper.
Dunn was charged with federal misdemeanor assault for allegedly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, and interfering with a federal officer after federal prosecutors were unable to obtain a felony indictment from a grand jury in Washington immediately following the incident.
Dunn’s employment as a paralegal in the Justice Department was terminated following his arrest. Dunn was employed as a paralegal in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs, according to a Justice Department source.
Attorney General Pam Bondi referred to Dunn as “an example of the Deep State we have been up against” in a post on X announcing his dismissal. “.
