or
lunch??
Earlier
this
week,
felony
charges
for
assaulting
a
federal
officer
with
a
Subway
sandwich were
filed
against
Sean
Charles
Dunn.
The
incident
went
viral,
and
let’s
be
honest,
getting
popular
off
of
a
stance
against
Donald
Trump
is
the
bigger
problem
for
the
administration.
So,
even
though
in
the
immediate
aftermath
of
the
incident,
Dunn
was
taken
to
D.C.
Superior
Court
and
released
without
being
charged,
the
federal
government
lashed
out
with
felony
charges.
(And
Dunn
lost
his
job
as
an international
affairs
specialist
in
the
Justice
Department’s
criminal
division.)
The
administration
is
trying
to
counter
the
viral
sensation
that
was
Dunn’s
initial
“attack”
with
a
bizarre
—
and
dystopian
—
video
of
their
own
documenting
Dunn’s
arrest.
You
need
riot
gear
and
74
troops
(sorry,
20)
to
arrest
a
guy
whose
weapon
of
choice
is
a
Subway
sandwich?
That’s
not
a
display
of
strength
—
it’s
pathetic
chest
puffery.
They
sent
fewer
guys
to
take
out
Bin
Laden!
And
even
from
the
dystopian
hype
video,
you
can
see
Dunn
isn’t
trying
to
resist
arrest.
Additionally,
Dunn’s
lawyer
Sabrina
Shroff
says
they
were
trying
to
negotiate
his
voluntary
surrender
when
the
government
orchestrated
this
spectacle.
Another
fun
tidbit
from
Shroff
is
that
officers
would
not
allow
Dunn
to
contact
her.
Sixth
Amendment?
Don’t
know
her!
This
incident
lays
bare
the
hypocrisy
of
all
the
early
(and
empty)
rhetoric
from
the
start
of
the
Trump
II
reign
about
cutting
government
waste.
MAGA
doesn’t
want
a
small
government,
they
want
a
government
that
can
be
bent
to
their
whims.
Just
like
authoritarians
everywhere.
Anyway,
if
you
can’t
laugh
at
tyranny
you’d
cry,
so,
enjoy.
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
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of
The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of
Thinking
Like
A
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