More than 1,500 pardons were issued to those involved with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol.

President Trump pardoned men who violently attacked police officers on Jan. 6 along with nearly 1,600 other people who had been charged in connection with the riot. But his grant of clemency did not erase the video evidence of their crimes.

A former police officer who was beaten during the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol said on Wednesday (January 22) that sweeping pardons granted by President Donald Trump show "the rule of law in this country just went out the window.