Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Washington man who hurled a sandwich at a Border Patrol officer in protest of President Donald Trump's troop deployment went on trial Tuesday for a misdemeanor charge.
The trial centers on an incident in August when Sean Charles Dunn, 37, threw a sandwich at the officer and shouted obscenities at other federal agents over their presence in the nation's capital.
Videos of the incident went viral, and Dunn became something of a folk hero to opponents of Trump's deployment of federal agents to combat what the president described as rampant crime.
A federal grand jury declined to indict Dunn on a felony, but prosecutors later filed a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a federal agent, which carries a potential penalty of one year in jail, fines and probation.
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