Capitol siege last Wednesday, has been arrested. More than 850 people have been arrested, and hundreds are still awaiting trials. Robert Keith Packer, the man law enforcement spotted wearing a Camp Auschwitz hooded sweatshirt during the U.S. Packer joins the more than 350 Capitol riot defendants who have been convicted for participating in the attack. Packer, the Virginia man who stormed the U.S. More than a million people – mostly Jews – were murdered in the Nazi extermination camp during the Second World War. Packer, 57, of Newport News, Virginia, pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment. FILE - This photo provided by Western Tidewater Regional Jail shows Robert Keith Packer of Newport News, Va., on Jan. “He posted his belief on his clothing that day.” “Mr Packer showed the world who he was on Jan 6 by both his deeds and his actions,” Assistant US Attorney Mona Furst said in court on Thursday. When asked by investigators why he wore a sweatshirt commemorating the infamous Nazi death camp, he told them he wore it because he was "cold." The sweatshirt had the word "STAFF" written along the back, and the words "Work Means Freedom" under a skull logo on the front referencing the sign at the entrance to the death camp.ĭuring the sentencing hearing, Assistant US Attorney Mona Furst showed a photo of Packer wearing a shirt with the SS logo - referencing the Nazi's elite bodyguards and security force - under his Auschwitz sweater.
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