Washington — U.S. Capitol Police chief Thomas Manger said he's concerned by the sweeping pardons President Trump issued Monday night to those convicted or facing charges of assaulting police officers after the Capitol riot four years ago.

Even Republicans who once said violent rioters should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law declined to criticize the presidential clemency for violent offenders, saying it was time to move on.

Sen. Andy Kim and other Democrats sharply criticized former President Donald Trump's expansive pardon of Jan. 6 rioters. Even some Republicans say he went too far.

Michael Tyler Roberts: Roberts, of Knoxville, was sentenced in December to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to the felony charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. The DOJ says Roberts assaulted a line of police officers in a tunnel entrance to the Capitol.

By Bo Erickson, Andrew Goudsward and Deborah Gembara WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol four years ago began to leave prison on Tuesday after the newly installed president issued sweeping pardons,

Former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who lost consciousness and suffered a heart attack after a rioter shocked him with a stun gun, appeared taken aback to learn from an Associated Press reporter that those who assaulted police officers are among the pardon recipients.

On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 1,500-plus of his supporters charged in the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Federal prosecutors move to dismiss felony charges against a Rhode Islander accused of beating Capitol Police officers with a table leg during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. He will remain in state prison on unrelated violent crimes.

That’s how the brother of Brian Sicknick, the U.S. Capitol police officer from New Jersey who died after the Jan. 6 attack, described President Donald Trump ’s decision Monday to pardon more than 1,500 people charged with crimes in the riot.

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.