Ex-DOJ sandwich slinger learns fate after throwing sub at Border Patrol agent

An ex-Department of Justice employee was acquitted of assaulting a federal employee after he chucked a Subway sandwich at an agent who testified the hoagie “exploded all over” him, leaving him smelling “onions and mustard.”

Sean Charles Dunn, 37, was found not guilty of a misdemeanor assault charge by a jury in Washington, DC, federal court Thursday after he was captured slinging the sub at Customs and Border Patrol Agent Gregory Lairmore in a viral video on Aug. 10. 

Dunn hugged his lawyers after the verdict was read.

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“I’m relieved, and I’m looking forward to moving on with my life,” he later told reporters.

Dunn’s lawyers argued at trial that the sandwich-tossing incident was blown out of proportion by the feds and that it was a “harmless gesture” by Dunn, who was protesting President Trump’s surge of federal troops in the nation’s capital.

“It was a harmless gesture at the end of him exercising his right to speak out,” defense attorney Julia Gatto argued in opening statements. “He is overwhelmingly not guilty.”

The panelists heard Lairmoire testify he could feel the hoagie’s impact “through my ballistic vest.”

“It kind of exploded all over,” the agent told the jury. “You could smell the onions and the mustard.”

Lairmore also found onions strewn on his police radio, and his shirt was stained yellow from mustard, he claimed.

The incident became a joke with Lairmore and his co-workers, who gifted him a “felony footlong” patch and a plush sandwich, which the agent displayed “on top of my shelf in the office,” he told jurors.

Dunn, an international affairs specialist in the DOJ’s criminal division, was fired following the incident. He became a symbol of opposition to Trump’s use of federal agents to combat domestic crime.

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Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced his arrest and said Dunn was “an example of the Deep State.”

The feds failed to secure a grand jury indictment on a felony assault count against Dunn, before they downgraded the charge to a misdemeanor. 

His lawyers sought to have the charges tossed out on the grounds that he was targeted for protected political speech.

The night of the incident, Dunn walked up to a group of CBP agents standing outside a club during a “Latin Night.” Dunn called the agents “fascists,” “racists” and chanted “shame” at them before he launched the sandwich that landed on Larmoire’s chest. 

“Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” Dunn cried, according to authorities.

He then tried to flee, but was ultimately arrested.

With Post wires