Posted on 01/22/2025 8:30:29 PM PST by Morgana
President Donald Trump gave full pardons to former Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers convicted in connection to the death of Karon Hylton-Brown, 20, who was fatally struck while being chased by one of the officers in 2020.
Trump, on Wednesday night, announced full and unconditional pardons for former officer Terence Sutton and Andrew Zabavsky, who was a lieutenant for the metropolitan police.
“I HEREBY DESIGNATE, direct, and empower, the Pardon Attorney, as my representative, to sign a grant of clemency to the person named herein. The Pardon Attorney shall declare that her action is the act of the President, being performed at my direction,” Trump declared in both pardons.
In a release published by then-President Joe Biden’s Justice Department in September 2024, prosecutors said on the night of October 23, 2020, Sutton pursued Hylton-Brown, who was operating a moped, in a vehicular chase after Hylton-Brown refused to stop for Sutton. WUSA reported the chase deviated from MPD policy.
Toward the end of the chase, Sutton followed Hylton-Brown down a narrow alley and turned off his lights and siren, prosecutors said. Sutton accelerated, and Hylton-Brown was struck by a third vehicle, which was not part of the chase, when he drove onto a street at the end of the alley, per the release.
Sutton was found guilty of second-degree murder. He and Zabavsky were both convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstructing justice for what jurors found was a conspiracy “to hide from MPD officials the circumstances of the traffic crash leading to Mr. Hylton-Brown’s death,” the Biden Justice Department release said. Sutton was sentenced to 66 months in prison in September 2024, while Zabavsky received a 48-month sentence.
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Don’t think I’ve ever heard of it
I figure before this week is over Trump Pardons will have the libs biting through their pacifiers just to keep calm.
Even Biden’s SS officers.
Yup.
A carriage of injustice akin to the canonization of St. George of Fentanyl.
It’s St. Floyd of Fentanyl.
Jeez, get it right.
Haven’t heard a word. Wonder how many more stories we’re going to hear as Trump shows his support for first responders.
Before all this and when DC had decent democrap mayors, one could go downtown at night. Now they are down there for a game, a dinner, entertainment, or event and get the eff back to VA or MD.
And it was that piece of lying Biden dogsqueeze, little matty “Run Like A Little Girl” graves, who put the hammer down on these officers.
Even four decades ago the DC Metro PD Sixth District was known as “the District of Death”.
But now it has metastasized.
Do you think he’ll pardon Derek Chauvin? That might set off a real firestorm.
I dont think that would be a wise move, at least right now and i think it will be very bad optics and open up the wounds of the rioting and chaos. 2020 was a bad year for trump ( and hence the entire USA) and he shouldnt do anything to go back to that time.
He’s innocent and shouldn’t spend another day in prison.
i hear, i hear.
there are a lot of cases where there have been state convictions.
then on top of those the DOJ convicts them of civil rights charges.
It makes sense to go through these extra civil rights charges, many will be inappropriate excess.
Trump can pardon for those over charges for civil rights charges.
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