Her dumb little PR video, stamping her feet and making her pose 
Every professional prosecutor had to have been cringing at the complete amateurism and lack of basic adult judgement.
Should have charged him with littering.
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Littering doesn’t really capture the full horror of the feel of a sandwich against a ballistic vest or the smell of onions and mustard in the evening.
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With a littering charge the guy could have ended up on the Group W bench.
In the strict sense of the legal definition I don’t think that misdemeanor assault was the wrong charge. People shouldn’t go around throwing stuff, however benign, at cops.
And if you accept that, than yes: this was nullification
Ok…I see. Fair point.
At anybody. Cops aren’t special.
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Was there a good way to present it? 
That sandwich was a huge hurdle to overcome. If it had been anything hard, the may have gotten a conviction, but remember, assault does not require any physical contact let alone harm. They might have had a better chance of getting a conviction if nothing at all was thrown.
Of course it was. By the letter of the law, he assaulted the officer and interfered with him performing his duty … both are clearly criminal offenses. The Jury let him off because they saw it for what it was … Political Kabuki theater.
