The decision to reject the Trump administration’s charges points to scepticism about the president’s heavy-handed approach.
A federal grand jury in the United States has declined to indict a man for throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent who was on patrol as part of President Donald Trump’s deployment of force in Washington, DC.
The grand jury had been weighing the case of Sean Charles Dunn, a former employee at the Department of Justice (DOJ) who was charged with felony assault for the viral sandwich toss.
But Wednesday’s decision to decline Dunn’s indictment was a stark rebuke to the Trump administration.
Indictments are usually a technicality in the prosecutorial process. There is a saying in the US legal system that a good prosecutor can convince a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich”.
