by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Most Americans have vivid recollections of the awful rioting at our nation's Capitol on January 6th, 2021, a scene of mass carnage and destruction that Donald Trump, as President, seemed to be encouraging and failed to send in the National Guard to quell. One-hundred-and-seventy-four police officers were injured in that melee, and four later died by suicide. As soon as Trump came back into office four years later, one of his very first acts was to pardon all of the rioters from January 6th, an act which did not align well with his stated "back the blue" philosophy.
Now that Trump is back in charge and the law enforcement apparatus is more firmly under his control, he has once again assumed the mantle of being aggressively pro-law enforcement.
On August 23rd Sean Charles Dunn, a lawyer with the Justice Department, was taking part in a public protest in Washington, DC, where he reportedly was shouting obscenities at members of Trump's highly-prized Customs and Border Protection Unit and calling them as "fascists." While the protest was occurring, Dunn threw his lunch, a hoagie (submarine style) sandwich, at a CBP officer and struck the man in the chest. No injuries were reported. The attorney openly admitted while at the scene that he was the one who threw the sandwich.
Later that day the hoagie hurler learned that a warrant had been issued for his arreest, and he was in the process of securing an attorney to turn himself in when twenty - count 'em - twenty law enforcement officials came to Dunn's apartment and arrested him. The officers also conveniently brought along a cameraman to film the production. Mr. Dunn was arrested and charged with a felony, and the Justice Department fired him upon his arrest. He spent one night in jail and was released the next morning.
Yesterday Dunn's arrest on a felony charge went before a grand jury and they failed to indict. The Justice Department quickly regrouped and charged the man with a misdemeanor based on information that will be heard before a judge. The hoagie hurler has yet to make a pleas on the misdemeanor charge which could result in a maximum of one year in jail.
Protest signs are now going up in Washington, DC, wich show the outline of a man preparing to launch a submarine sandwich like a football pass.
Donald Trump would not deploy the National Guard to the nation's Capitol in 2021. Now, four years later, he has sent them in and they are reportedly picking up trash. Maybe if Trump had served in uniform himself, he might have a better understanding of the proper role of both our nation's military as well as its law enforcement
Just sayin' . . .
(Also, if it takes twenty law enforcement officers and a cameraman to arrest a lawyer who may or may not be armed with a sandwich, how many would it take to break up a bar fight? The First Infantry Division, perhaps?)
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