Republican U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned two police officers in Washington who were convicted in the 2020 murder of a 20-year-old Black man named Karon Hylton-Brown, the White House said.

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President Donald Trump pardoned two Washington, D.C., police officers on Wednesday in a show of support for law enforcement after his sweeping grant of clemency to Jan. 6 rioters. Trump signaled that he would pardon Terence Sutton and Andrew Zabavskybe as he faced harsh criticism for pardoning defendants who assaulted officers in the Capitol attack,

Police unions and the chief of the Capitol Police condemned Trump's pardons of the violent felons who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.

President Donald Trump 's mass pardon of Jan. 6 rioters, many of whom assaulted police officers defending the U.S. Capitol, has provoked a furious response from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) on Tuesday.

The largest police union in the U.S. has slammed President Donald Trump for his pardoning of individuals “convicted of killing or assaulting law enforcement officers.” The Fraternal Order of Police issued the statement alongside the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday after,