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An unlikely folk hero has emerged in Washington this week. Sean Dunn, a blond 37-year-old in a pink button-down and New Balance sneakers, was captured on video Sunday night screaming at some of the federal agents who have begun patrolling the city on Donald Trump’s orders. “Fuck you, fascists!” he yelled. “Shame!”

After following the group across the street, he got right up in the face of a Customs and Border Protection agent and engaged in some vigorous taunting. Then, just as Dunn was turning to leave, he seemed to think better of it. He whipped back around, wound up, and threw his footlong Subway sub at the agent, hitting him square in the chest.

In the days since, as Dunn drew felony charges for assaulting a federal officer and was fired from his job at the Department of Justice, the video has been passed around on social media and group texts across the District of Columbia with unbridled glee. Dunn’s “assault with a deli weapon,” as one Redditor dubbed it, has been celebrated as evidence of the city’s indomitable spirit and as a rousing call to........

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