On a day of controversial moves, President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon all of the Jan. 6. defendants, including those who assaulted police officers, might have been his most contentious executive order.
It’s a sensitive issue in the law enforcement community, much of which supported Trump in the election. We contacted local police unions and got no responses, but former prosecutors and former police officers had a lot to say about the pardons.
Jan. 6, 2021, was a day of chaos, a day of violence directed squarely at the police officers who were guarding the United States Capitol Building.
“It’s just mind-boggling, you can hear the cops crying in pain, you can see everything that went on there and now it’s like it doesn’t matter,” said former Miami Police major David Magnusson.
Senators reacted to an executive order by President Trump that pardoned over 1,500 people charged with crimes in connection with the attack on the Capitol …