WASHINGTON (DC News Now) -- The DC Police Union expressed its disappointment and dismay over President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons granted to those convicted of assaulting police officers during the Capitol riots in 2021. As part of the slew of executive orders signed during his first day in office, Trump pardoned over 1,500 people charged for their involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection. The union representing 3,600 officers, detectives and sergeants in the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) released a statement Tuesday criticizing the move. "[O]ur stance is clear - anyone who assaults a law enforcement officer should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, without exception," the DC Police Union stated, in part. Crowd gathers outside DC jail following pardon of January 6 inmates The union also said it was working with the White House and Trump to address "two glaring miscarriages of justice" involving MPD Officer Terrance Sutton and Lt. Andrew Zabavsky. The two were, according to the union, wrongly convicted of murder after being "targeted by corrupt prosecutors who weaponized the legal system against them." Sutton and Zabavsky were convicted for their involvement in an unauthorized chase that ended in a fatal crash and subsequent cover-up back in 2020. On Oct. 23, 2020, Sutton drove an undercover police car and chased 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, who was driving a moped on a sidewalk. Zabavsky was in a marked police vehicle. The chase lasted nearly three minutes, during which Sutton eventually turned off his vehicle's emergency lights and sirens and accelerated before an uninvolved car hit Hylton-Brown, the Associated Press reported. He died from his injuries. Maryland Attorney General: Trump’s executive order on transgender rights ‘threatens people’s lives’ Sutton was convicted of second-degree murder, conspiracy to obstruct and obstruction of justice in 2022 and sentenced to over five years in prison. Zabavsky was found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct and obstruction of justice and sentenced to two years in prison. In its statement Tuesday, the DC Police Union said it believes the pardon process can and should be used to correct "such egregious errors." The union added it is "hopeful that the same measure of justice that was extended to the recent January 6 pardons will also be applied to right these wrongs." DC Police Union Statement.