President Donald Trump suggested two Washington, D.C., police officers would be released from prison after they were convicted of killing a 20-year-old man during an unauthorized police chase.
Trump has been harshly criticized for pardoning Jan. 6 defendants who assaulted police officers but said Tuesday that planned pardons of D.C. police Terence Sutton and Andrew Zabavsky indicate his true stance in support of law enforcement.
“They arrested the two officers (Sutton and Zabavsky) and put them in jail for going after a criminal. A rough criminal, by the way,” Trump said in a preview of the order. “And I’m actually releasing [them]. I am the friend of police, more than any president that’s ever been in this office.”
The case in question occurred in October 2020, near the peak of that year’s Black Lives Matter protest movement. The incident began when Sutton…
