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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The question isn't whether a flung sandwich can cause bodily harm. It's whether that flung sandwich did cause bodily harm. They do make that clear in the article. The title simply doesn't reflect that.

Also, like they talked about in the article, the evidence didn't match the officer's testimony. He said that the sandwich exploded all over him and got mustard everywhere. But pictures of the sandwich after it landed showed the wrapper still fully covering the sandwich.

The guy who threw the sandwich probably committed some sort of minor crime, but it wasn't the one he was charged with, and it's hard to believe the prosecution when their star witness seems to be lying his ass off.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

far more minor than even the most innocent member of ice has perpetrated.

[–] pc486@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Sean Dunn was charged with a misdemeanor, which doesn't require injury to the agent. This is the most minor crime possible of federal assault, and the jury acquitted him.

Dunn committed no crime.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I almost saw my opening for the frozen sandwich rail gun. One day, I will change the face of the civil defense industry, but today is not that day.

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it matter? In my city the cops fired tear gas canisters at protesters, calling it "less- than lethal force" but when protesters picked them up and threw them back, they got charged with Assault With a Deadly Weapon.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

That's amazing.

L

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This sounds like a question for Mythbusters

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Picturing launching a sandwich from a pneumatic cannon, in slow mo, With the sabot they encased it in to keep it from disintegrating in the barrel tumbling away in its wake.

[–] phaedrus@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago

I once lost a tooth to a sandwich while chewing it, and the sandwich was pretty much stationary. I'm surprised this cop still has a face, tbh.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I can't beleive how many man (and women) hours are wasted discussing, analyzing, debating, teorizing, calculating, ... all ing's for such a nonsense. All those hours combined would probalby resolve ultimate question to 42.