D.C. police officer Terence Sutton was convicted by a jury of his peers of second-degree murder, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown in 2020. Karon had a three-month old daughter at the time he was killed, following an unauthorized pursuit by Sutton. After Hylton-Brown was struck by another motorist, the officers extensively covered up the crime, including shutting off their body worn cameras at key moments. President Trump justified the pardon with the false and irrelevant claim that Hylton-Brown was "an illegal."