President Donald Trump has pardoned two D.C. police officers who were convicted for their roles in the death of a Black man during a pursuit in the tense period of unrest that followed the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

Trump’s pardon of Officer Terence Sutton and Lt. Andrew Zabavsky on Wednesday came two days after he pardoned nearly everyone convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, including people who assaulted D.C. and Capitol police officers.

The president had said earlier in the week that he planned to issue the pardons for the two officers.

“They arrested the two officers to put them in jail for going after a criminal, a rough criminal, by the way,” the president told reporters Tuesday. “I am the friend of police more than any president that has ever been.”

The DC Police Union had been lobbying Trump to pardon the officers and condemned the conviction of Sutton in particular in a post on X. “Officer Sutton was wrongly charged by corrupt prosecutors for doing his job,” it said. “This action rights an incredible wrong that not only harmed Officer Sutton, but also crippled the ability for the department to function.”

Sutton and Zabavsky were in pursuit in two separate cars of Karon Hylton-Brown, who was riding a rental moped without a helmet at the time, in October 2020 in Northwest D.C. when the 20-year-old crashed into an SUV and was killed. Prosecutors said the pursuit was reckless and the officers, both white, covered up what had happened at a time when the city was still tense following civil justice protests that erupted over the killing by police of Floyd in Minneapolis.

The two officers were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice. Sutton was additionally convicted of second-degree murder in Hylton-Brown’s death.

Sutton was sentenced to 5 ½ years in prison and Zabavsky received four years but both remained free on appeal.