U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s former colleagues at Fox News cheered her August 13 announcement that she was charging a D.C. resident who threw a sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer with felony assault. The network’s hosts claimed that thanks to the “new sheriff in town,” the man “will be held accountable in a court of law.”
But two weeks later, Pirro’s office has reportedly been unable to secure an indictment against the man, a glaring failure which highlights the weaknesses inherent in appointing a Fox commentator to oversee D.C.’s prosecutorial system.
On the evening of August 10 — two days after President Donald Trump announced he was deploying federal law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital to “make D.C. safe again” — police allege local resident Sean C. Dunn called a group of federal agents on patrol “fascists” and threw a wrapped “sub-style” sandwich which struck a Customs and Border Protection officer. The incident was captured in a viral video.
Pirro, a longtime Fox host who has served as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia since Trump appointed her in May, announced in a video posted to social media on August 13 that she had charged the man with “a felony: assault on a police officer.” She added, “We’re going to back the police to the hilt! So there, stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else!”
Dunn’s arrest came less than seven months after the president, in one of his first acts in office, issued clemency “to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the” January 6 insurrection, including “violent offenders who went after the police on Jan. 6 with baseball bats, two-by-fours and bear spray and are serving prison terms, in some cases of more than a decade.”
(Dunn had reportedly tried to turn himself in but the White House apparently really wanted to make a hype video it could post of armed and armored U.S. Marshals apprehending him at his apartment.)
Pirro‘s former Fox colleagues were quick to tout her action.
Fox host Sean Hannity promised on his August 14 broadcast that Dunn “will be held accountable in a court of law by the U.S. attorney, our former colleague, our friend, Judge Jeanine Pirro,” adding that “the subway sandwich assault is just the beginning of what will be weeks of temper tantrums from elites.”
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