DOJ employee fired and charged with felony for throwing sandwich at DC law enforcement officer

Published August 14, 2025 10:01am ET



Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, charged 37-year-old Sean Charles Dunn, a Justice Department employee, with felony assault on a law enforcement officer on Wednesday after he tossed a sandwich at an officer’s chest last Sunday.

Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed on Thursday that Dunn has since been fired from the DOJ. She called the incident “an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months.”

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