Robert Packer, ‘Camp Auschwitz’ Guy, Pleads Guilty in Jan. 6

The Virginia man who wore a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol has pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor.

Robert Keith Packer, 57, was photographed sporting the black hoodie, which additionally bore a picture of a human cranium and the phrases “Work Brings Freedom,” as he joined the mob of Donald Trump supporters who overran police and breached the constructing in an try to cease Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win within the 2020 presidential election.

Packer was additionally seen within the group of people that proudly seemed to be displaying a shard of the damaged nameplate from Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s workplace.

He pleaded responsible Wednesday to a single depend of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol constructing. The cost carries a possible six month jail sentence and a most attainable tremendous of $5,000.

Packer’s hoodie makes a mockery of Nazi Germany’s systematic homicide of at the least 11 million individuals, 6 million of them European Jews. Auschwitz grew to become the most important of a whole bunch of focus camps the Nazis established in Europe within the Nineteen Thirties and Forties. An indication hung over the entry to Auschwitz learn “Arbeit Macht Frei,” which is German for “Work Units You Free.”

As Legislation&Crime beforehand reported, Packer was allegedly a part of the group that moved towards the workplace of Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who’s Jewish.

As a part of his settlement, Packer agreed to cooperate with the federal authorities.

“Mr. Packer has agreed to speak with the FBI in regards to the occasions of that day and permit the FBI to peruse any social media accounts he might need,” Assistant U.S. Legal professional Mona Furst instructed U.S. District Decide Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, on the listening to.

On the listening to, Furst outlined Packer’s actions on the Capitol that day. Prosecutors say Packer drove from his residence in Newport Information, Virginia, to be able to attend Trump’s so-called “Cease the Steal” rally. He then joined the pro-Trump mob and entered the Capitol constructing itself, regardless of seeing damaged home windows and tear fuel being deployed by police.

Furst mentioned that Packer was within the Capitol constructing for round 20 minutes. He was current when a crowd of rioters breached a police line, and was a part of the group that broke aside and took Pelosi’s nameplate. He additionally went to Statuary Corridor.

“On the time the defendant entered the constructing, he knew that he didn’t have permission to enter the constructing,” Furst mentioned.

The parading and picketing cost has grow to be the predominant cost to which at the least Jan. 6 defendants have pleaded responsible. Sentences have ranged from probation to the utmost six months’ incarceration. Defendants that obtained the six-month jail sentence obtained credit score for time served; up to now, the longest jail time period for a defendant not beforehand detained was three months behind bars.

Packer had additionally been charged with disorderly conduct and knowingly getting into or remaining in any restricted constructing or grounds with out authority. These costs will presumably be dropped at Packer’s sentencing listening to, set for April 7.

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