Jeanine Pirro, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, announced Wednesday that the man seen on video throwing a sandwich at an officer in Washington DC on Sunday has been charged with a felony.
In the video the man, later identified as Sean Dunn, 37, berated federal agents before throwing the sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer, then ran into the street as officers chased him.
The incident took place as federal agents were patrolling the city just one day before Trump’s official announcement that the federal government is taking over DC police and deploying the National Guard.
On Wednesday, Pirro announced that Dunn has been charged with assaulting a federal officer.
“President Trump has vowed to make D.C. safe and beautiful again,” Pirro said. “And the president’s message to the criminals was, if you spit, we hit. Well, we didn’t quite do that the other night when an individual went up to one of the federal law enforcement officers and started jumping up and down, screaming at him, berating him, yelling at him, and then he took a Subway sandwich…..and threw it at the officer,” the former Fox News host said.
“He thought it was funny. Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today because we charged him with a felony, assault on a police officer,” Pirro.
If convicted, Dunn faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison, or up to eight years if it involves “physical contact” or the intent to commit another felony, according to the New York Times.
