When President Donald Trump pardoned the entire docket of Jan. 6, 2021, suspects on Monday, four of them from New Jersey were in prison. Among them were Julian Khater, who unleashed bear spray at U.S. Capitol police officers, including South River native Brian Sicknick, who died the next day after suffering strokes. He was 42.

Many Republicans on Capitol Hill do not agree with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and commute sentences for more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the

Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of the more than 1,500 people convicted in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

President Donald Trump defended the pardons he issued to January 6 participants in his first interview since returning to the presidency. "They were very minor incidents, and it was time," Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview held at the Oval Office.

The Capitol Police union and other law enforcement groups sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s pardons for his supporters who attacked the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, a move that cut against years of pro-police messaging from Republican members of Congress.

A former top prosecutor from the D.C. U.S. attorney's office called Trump's pardons for those charged in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol "disturbing."