WASHINGTON—Sean Dunn was acquitted of misdemeanor assault charges on Nov. 6, after he threw a Subway sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol officer this summer.
His defense team never disputed the sandwich toss, but disputed that it rose to the level of an “assault.”
“He did it. He threw the sandwich,” Dunn’s attorney Julia Gatto said in her opening statement.
But she said that this wasn’t an act of violence, just Dunn emphatically expressing his anger at the enhanced police presence in the city.
“It was a harmless gesture at the end of the exercising of his right to speak out,” she told the jurors. The jury agreed….