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.

President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown,

Brown, led to days of protests in 2020, not long after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who oversaw President Trump’s federal election subversion case, wrote in court filings that his sweeping pardons for those charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021,

Police and others denounced President Trump's pardons and commutations for those who took part in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. One of those released, Enrique Tarrio, head of the far-right Proud Boys,