“He did it. He threw the sandwich.”

That’s how the defense counsel for Sean Dunn, the man who threw a sub-style sandwich at a Border Patrol officer in Washington, D.C., this summer began the federal trial against him Tuesday morning. Advertisement

The United States government, Dunn’s attorney Julia Gatto told the jury, “turned that moment, a thrown sandwich, into a criminal case. A federal criminal case charging a federal criminal offense.”

The case serves as a certain symbol in the backlash the Trump administration’s deployment of federal troops this summer in D.C. faced from residents. The sandwich-throwing incident also became a moment of resistance in the city, with spray painted posters popping up around the Capitol in the wake of the alleged assault.

On Tuesday, the Border Patro

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