
*President Donald Trump issued approximately 1,500 pardons and commuted 14 sentences related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members convicted of seditious conspiracy.
A sweeping pardon was granted to all individuals convicted of offenses linked to the Capitol riots, including men who assaulted law enforcement. Among those released was Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader serving a 22-year sentence, who was freed Monday from federal prison and returned to Miami, NBC News reports.
The January 6 attack disrupted the peaceful transfer of power and led to the largest FBI investigation in U.S. history, with over 1,500 arrests and 1,100 convictions. While many received probation for misdemeanors, hundreds were sentenced to prison for violent felonies. At the time of the pardons, most incarcerated individuals had completed their sentences, but the pardons restored rights such as voting and gun ownership for those with felony convictions. The riot left over 140 officers injured and resulted in several deaths.
The proclamation Trump signed on Monday issued “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
Trump’s pardons include many individuals who pleaded guilty and admitted in court that they broke the law.

“Six individuals who assaulted me as I did my job on January 6 … will now walk free,” DC police officer Michael Fanone told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday. “Six individuals who threatened my life and threatened my family members … My family, my children and myself are less safe today because of Donald Trump and his supporters.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Trump’s pardons “an outrageous insult to our justice system.”
“It is shameful that the President has decided to make one of his top priorities the abandonment and betrayal of police officers who put their lives on the line to stop an attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power,” she said in a statement.
“Despite the President’s decision, we must always remember the extraordinary courage and valor of the law enforcement heroes who stood in the breach and ensured that democracy survived on that dark day,” Pelosi added.
Vice President JD Vance previosuly said, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
A day before Turmp’s inauguration, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that “peaceful protesters should be pardoned, but violent criminals should not.”
Trump adviser Jason Miller co-signed this in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper before Trump was inaugurated.
“President Trump has said we’re going to look through each of the cases individually,” Miller said. “We’ve also said that, definitely, we do not support in any way, shape or form, anyone who’s been violent towards law enforcement or things of that nature. But there have been a lot of people who’ve been treated unfairly, so they’re going to look on a case-by-case basis.”
Meanwhile, under Trump’s directive, the Justice Department has started requesting the federal court in Washington, DC, to dismiss ongoing cases with prejudice, preventing the charges from being refiled in the future.
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