The Justice Department has fired employee Sean Charles Dunn after video showed him throwing a submarine sandwich at the chest of an law enforcement officer as a gesture of defiance against President Trump’s entirely legal executive take-over of crime control in the District of Columbia. He hurled the sandwich at the officer’s chest and tried to run away. When Dunn was apprehended, he told police: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.”
FBI Director Kash Patel announced that Dunn had indeed been “charged with felony assault on a federal officer.” Attorney General Pam Bondi noted on social media that “if you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you.” And he was fired.
The arrest, the charge and the employment action were all appropriate, but the Axis news media decided to weigh in as a fan of interfering with law enforcement and subjecting officers to thrown items, although doing so, whatever the missile, is pure assault and also battery (if the thrown item connects with its target).
Rolling Stone epitomized this indefensible attitude, writing, “Sandwich or loogie, in the end the administration is not so much interested in preserving law and order, but in making an example of those who manage to embarrass them.” The “loogie” refers to RS’s insinuation that it was also unjust to prosecuted Emily Gabriella Sommer, who pleaded guilty to three counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding a federal officer or employee after she spat on former U.S. Attorney Ed Martin.
Here’s Rolling Stone’s weak grasp of analogies: “Meanwhile, the man who yelled “kill ’em” at rioters attacking police on Jan. 6 remains a ‘valued member of the Justice Department.'” See, guys, yelling things isn’t generally a crime: you know that free speech thingy? Sticks and stones, and all that? The publication goes on to complain that “The Trump administration also pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters, some of whom beat and battled with cops as they stormed the Capitol in an attempt to block the certification of Trump’s 2020 electoral loss.” But all of those rioters were arrested and most of them prosecuted, with many serving more time in jail before they were pardoned than Dunn will ever serve; I doubt he will serve any prison time at all. Being ethically inert, Rolling Stone thinks it can justify an attack on a law enforcement officer because others may have gotten away with the same crime in the past.
I think I’ll mail the magazine the Ethics Alarms Rationalization list.
Ethics Alarms 
“Charged with assault with a deli weapon” “He had a loaded bun” –Scott Adams.
I think that joke is SUBpar but does show a RYE sense of humor. Honk! Honk! Wocka! Wocka! 😀
Lettuce also agree that sandwiched between that is the fact that he tried to break bread with law enforcement.
He has definitely landed himself in a pickle.🥒
He just can’t seem to cut the mustard. He might be best off offering a mayo culpa.
I think that sort of battery that causes no physical harm, and never had the potential to, should top out a at a misdemeanor, even if it is against a police officer.
That is not, however, how the law currently reads. I find it odd that Leftists would dare to bring up Jan 6th in this context. That was, after all, the incident where Biden’s DOJ went on an all-out manhunt to track down everyone who walked past where a barrier used to be and onto Capitol grounds, in order to charge them with anything that could be made to stick and a few things that couldn’t.
Obviously, two wrongs don’t make a right. But it’s also true, as game theory teaches us, that the only strategy that reins in bad actors in “repeating” or ongoing games is tit-for-tat. They need to know what it is to be on the receiving end of politicized prosecution. They need to know, down to their bones, that they can’t count on their cronies controlling the levers of power.
If he should get a prison sentence, Jared “the Subway Guy”, who’s serving in a Fed in Colorado might need a cellmate.