The Trump administration has brought criminal charges against at least 851 people accused of attacking or impeding federal officers, only to abandon them at an unusually high rate. That compares to 8% of all federal criminal cases that typically end in dismissal, according to records compiled by the Federal Judicial Center. Reuters gathered the records of every person charged with assaulting or impeding federal officers between January 2025 and March, then followed what happened to those prosecutions. And they famously brought charges against a Washington man who threw a sandwich that bounced off an immigration agent’s body armor. In most cases, prosecutors provided no reason for dropping charges, other than saying that it was “in the interests of justice.”