Earlier this week, felony prices for assaulting a federal officer with a Subway sandwich have been filed towards Sean Charles Dunn. The incident went viral, and let’s be sincere, getting standard off of a stance towards Donald Trump is the larger downside for the administration. So, though within the quick aftermath of the incident, Dunn was taken to D.C. Superior Court docket and launched with out being charged, the federal authorities lashed out with felony prices. (And Dunn misplaced his job as an worldwide affairs specialist within the Justice Division’s felony division.)
The administration is attempting to counter the viral sensation that was Dunn’s preliminary “assault” with a weird — and dystopian — video of their very own documenting Dunn’s arrest.
You want riot gear and 74 troops (sorry, 20) to arrest a man whose weapon of selection is a Subway sandwich? That’s not a show of power — it’s pathetic chest puffery. They despatched fewer guys to take out Bin Laden! And even from the dystopian hype video, you possibly can see Dunn isn’t attempting to withstand arrest. Moreover, Dunn’s lawyer Sabrina Shroff says they have been attempting to barter his voluntary give up when the federal government orchestrated this spectacle. One other enjoyable tidbit from Shroff is that officers wouldn’t enable Dunn to contact her. Sixth Modification? Don’t know her!
This incident lays naked the hypocrisy of all of the early (and empty) rhetoric from the beginning of the Trump II reign about chopping authorities waste. MAGA doesn’t desire a small authorities, they need a authorities that may be bent to their whims. Similar to authoritarians in all places.
Anyway, should you can’t chuckle at tyranny you’d cry, so, take pleasure in.
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