A man accused of throwing a sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington, D.C., was an employee of the Justice Department, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday.
"I just learned that this defendant worked at the Department of Justice — NO LONGER. Not only is he FIRED, he has been charged with a felony," Bondi said in a post on X.
The accused Subway sandwich slinger, Sean Charles Dunn, worked in the international affairs section of the criminal division at the Justice Department, a DOJ source told NBC News.
An attorney for Dunn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The encounter happened Sunday night, when Dunn began beefing with CBP officers who were patrolling near a Subway sandwich shop on U Street, prosecutors said in a court filing. The officers appear to have been in the area as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to ramp up law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
Dunn, who was brandishing what appeared to be a wrapped footlong sandwich from the fast food staple, "stood within inches" of one of the officers, and yelled “F--- you! You f-----g fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city,” the filing said.
A now-viral video shows the suspect then throwing the sandwich at the chest of the officer, who appeared to be wearing bullet proof vest.
Dunn then "attempted to flee on foot" but was quickly apprehended, the filing said.
It also said Dunn acknowledged what he'd done to a D.C. police officer while his arrest was being processed. “I did it. I threw a sandwich,” the filing quotes him as saying.
It’s unclear what kind of sandwich he was carrying. It was described simply as a “sub-style sandwich” in the court filing.
Dunn was hit with the felony charge on Wednesday.
"If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you," Bondi said in her social media post.
She also called Dunn "an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ."
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said in a video statement posted on X Wednesday that the suspect thought the Subway strike "was funny."
“Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged him with a felony: assault on a police officer. And we’re going to back the police to the hilt. So there, stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else,” Pirro said.
