A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during U.S. President Donald Trump's law enforcement surge in Washington was found not guilty of assault on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.

A viral video of the sandwich tossing made Sean Charles Dunn a symbol of resistance to Trump's deployment of federal agents to combat crime in the nation's capital. His misdemeanor acquittal is another setback for prosecutors, who have faced a backlash for how they have handled criminal cases resulting from the law enforcement surge.

Prosecutors had told jurors that Dunn broke the law when he threw his submarine sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent on the night of Aug. 10.

One of Dunn's lawyers urged the jury to acqui

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