No one wanted these agents partolling DC. DC's Mayor Muriel Bowser said, “This is a time where community needs to jump in and we all need to, to do what we can in our space, in our lane, to protect our city and to protect our autonomy, to protect our Home Rule, and get to the other side of this guy, and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to this authoritarian push.” DC Federal Judge Zia M. Faruqui said, “The Sixth Amendment doesn’t get thrown out the window because the government has decided to make a show of arresting people.” A Washington Post-Scar School poll released last week found that 80% of DC residents opposed Trump’s actions.
So when Dunn threw his sandwich at the agent, everybody absolutely understood his anger and frustration. But he was immediately arrested and charged with a felony.
A felony. For throwing a sandwich.
Attorney General Pam Bondi also fired him the next day.
For throwing a fucking sandwich.
A. Fucking. Sandwich.
A grand jury said these charges were a load of bullshit and correctly refused to indict Dunn.
The situation was entirely absurd from top to bottom, and it shouldn't surprise anyone that a great many jokes were made at the expense of Trump, Bondi, and the federal agents wasting taxpayer dollars on the streets of DC. While smaller incidents tend to only generate online memes and quick one-liners on late night talk shows, there has been a greater foray of commentary carrying into the physical world. People are eager to show EVERYBODY, not just those online or watching TV, that everything Trump does or is even associated with is worthy of mockery. He's a petty, narcisistic bully whose only power is surrounding himself with racist sychophants. Everyone needs to see that at every opportunity, and thus we're seeing an increasing use of graffiti to express these sentiments.
All of this has been preface to this image...
Those are four sheets of paper pasted up next to one another on the wall. Each one represents a discrete moment in time. The first "panel" is the man preparing to throw a sandwich, the second and third panels show the trajectory and arc of the throw, and the final panel shows it landing. That's not four sandwiches; that's one sandwich at four moments in time. It conveys the message quickly and easily, and I daresay there are few people who would see this and not understand the basic message, even if they didn't know Miller specifically or if they hadn't heard about Dunn's story. I think it's a great, subversive use of the medium and I would love to see more graffit artists leverage this type of approach.
Particularly when it comes to pointing out to everyone, regardless of what kind of news bubble they might be in, just how hideous, destructive, and cruel-for-the-sake-being-cruel this fucking administration is.
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Good news: they couldn’t get a grand jury to stick a felony on him, so now he's been charged with a misdemeanor. I won't be surprised if he pleas to some community service! No jury would convict him, in part because of the feds reaction and their lies about it already.
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