Making DC Safe Again?

On Thursday, the White House Twitter account posted a video showing an arrest in the West End neighborhood of Washington, DC. In the video, what looked to be two dozen federal agents, some carrying shields, entered an apartment building as though they were searching for a terrorist who was on the lam. The door opens, and a thin white guy is placed into handcuffs.

“Nighttime Routine: Operation Make D.C. Safe Again Edition,” the video was captioned.

It seemed fairly obvious that the video was of Sean Dunn, who threw a subway sandwich at federal agents earlier in the week (or was alluding to him). Dunn, who was originally arrested at the scene of the “crime,” was rearrested Wednesday evening, when 20 federal agents showed up at his home. What are the odds two similar raids, scooping up two white guys in a nice part of town, would occur in the same week?

Nevertheless, the White House would not reply to journalists who asked (and many people on social media told me I was wrong believing he was in the video!). So I did the only reasonable thing possible: I looked up Dunn‘s address and walked over to his home.

In the video of the raid, you can see the entrance to the apartment building, which is an exact match for the one Dunn lives in.

When I asked people who lived in the building if they could tell me if the interior of the elevators had a woodgrain paneling, they immediately asked if it was about the White House video, and told me it was their building for sure.

So there we have it — either the feds really raided him, and then secretly filmed a reenactment in the exact locations the real arrest occurred, or they simply filmed the real arrest.

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