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Summary
- Full and Unconditional Pardon of Andrew Zabavsky and Terence Sutton, two DC officers convicted of covering up their actions, which led to the death of 20 year old Karon Hylton-Brown in Oct 2020
Executive Grants of Clemency for Andrew Zabavsky and Terence Sutton
- Full and Unconditional Pardon of Andrew Zabavsky
- DC police officer who was convicted of conspiracy to obstruct and obstruction of justice
- Full and Unconditional Pardon of Terence Sutton
- DC police officer who was convicted of second degree murder, conspiracy to obstruct, and obstruction of justice
- Oct 23, 2020, officers saw 20 year old Karon Hylton-Brown driving a moped without a helmet on a sidewalk
- He did not comply with their order to stop so they could question him, so they pursued him on a chase though the streets of the area at, which was deemed at the trial “unreasonable speeds”
- Sutton, who was driving, followed Hylton-Brown into a narrow alley, turned off his car’s emergency lights and siren, and accelerated behind the moped
- When he reached the street at the end of the alley Mr. Hylton-Brown was struck by an uninvolved motorist
- He was unconscious, but still alive at that time
- The two officers decided to cover up what Sutton did to prevent further investigation
- They did not preserve the scene, and let the other driver leave within 20 minutes
- They both turned off their body cameras, and then also left the scene
- Did not designate any other officers to supervise the scene when they left
- Compromised the scene by driving their police car directly over the crash site
- Neither officer contacted MPD’s Major Crash Unit (MCU) or its Internal Affairs Division (IAD)
- Misled their commanding officer about the nature of the incident by substantially downplaying its seriousness, denying that a police chase had even occurred, and omitting any mention of Hylton-Brown’s critical injuries
- Zabavsky falsely implied to commanding officer that Mr. Hylton-Brown had been a drunk driver
- Both officers hid their direct involvement in the incident, thereby avoiding the assignment of other, uninvolved MPD officials to investigate what had happened
- Sutton drafted a police report that memorialized a false narrative of the incident:
- Gave the impression that no police pursuit had occurred
- Stated that officers had lost sight of Hylton-Brown and were engaged in a “canvass” of him in the area until shortly before the crash
- Stated that the officers were wholly uninvolved with the fatal collision in any way
- Also described Hylton Brown’s observable injuries only as “superficial abrasions on [his] left eyebrow line.”
- There was video evidence that contradicted everything in that report
- Hylton-Brown died of severe head trauma two days later