NOT GUILTY! Why the “Sandwich Guy” Verdict Matters
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sarah Longwell, big news from the District of Columbia. A jury of his peers has acquitted the sandwich man in a trial that took three days and much time of federal prosecutors. Do you remember the expression when we were kids? Somebody would say, oh, you don't have to make a federal case out of it. Yeah. Do you remember that? Like the dismissive way. It's been like, come on. Get off your high horse. So, uh, you know, Judge Janine Piro, who is, I guess, |
| 0:27.2 | like a high ranking member of the Justice Department now, made a literal federal case out of |
| 0:32.1 | the guy throwing a sandwich and, uh, at a cop. And when she couldn't get a grand jury to indict him on like her federal charges, |
| 0:41.5 | she dropped it down to misdemeanor, was able to get a misdemeanor, got the officer up there |
| 0:45.7 | talking about how he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. |
| 0:49.6 | And he could say there were onions and mustard everywhere. |
| 0:53.5 | And the jury looked at this and said, get the fuck out of here. |
| 0:56.8 | It's a great day for America. |
| 0:58.3 | Great. |
| 0:58.9 | It's a great day for sandwiches all across America. |
| 1:01.9 | Again, I just want to be clear on my position here, which is you shouldn't throw things at law enforcement officials. |
| 1:07.9 | That being said, these guys are such big babies. |
| 1:12.8 | And if they were trying to make a... |
| 1:14.0 | But they're warrior war fighters. |
| 1:15.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.5 | And I think the reason he got acquitted is because, A, they were like, I'm sorry, you |
| 1:22.1 | smelled mustard. |
| 1:23.2 | They were, they also were like, but the sandwich remained wrapped. |
| 1:26.1 | Like, like, it came down to the actual, they actually had to debate this. |
| 1:30.9 | They actually had to look at the evidence. |
| 1:32.4 | The evidence was the sandwich remained contained in the paper. |
| 1:36.1 | And it's wrapper. |
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