Male in ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt throughout Capitol riot arrested, regulation enforcement official states

A rioter who stormed the US Capitol final week carrying a sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase “Camp Auschwitz” was arrested Wednesday early morning in Virginia, in accordance to a law enforcement official.

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The rioter who stormed the US Capitol Wednesday donning a sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase “Camp Auschwitz”, recognized as Robert Keith Packer of Virginia, was arrested Wednesday morning in Virginia, in accordance to a regulation enforcement official.

CNN was initial to report that the guy in the sweatshirt was determined as Robert Keith Packer of Virginia. A legislation enforcement formal instructed CNN that Packer was picked up in Newport Information, Virginia.

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An picture of Packer inside of the Capitol, whose sweatshirt bore the name of the Nazi concentration camp where by about 1.1 million people were being killed all through Globe War II, has evoked shock and disbelief on social media. The bottom of his shirt stated, “Do the job brings liberty,” which is the tough translation of the phrase “Arbeit macht frei” that was on the concentration camp’s gates.

Packer has a criminal historical past including three convictions for driving under the influence and a felony conviction for forging general public data, in accordance to Virginia court docket information. He was billed in 2016 for allegedly trespassing. The situation was later on dismissed.

Packer was amongst the mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters who unlawfully broke into the US Capitol building on January 6 as Congress was in the course of action of counting the Electoral Faculty votes and certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s acquire.

Wrongly persuaded the election was stolen from Trump, the rioters fought with law enforcement officers and attacked users of the media, smashed windows, vandalized and ransacked offices, and stole federal residence.

5 people today — like US Capitol law enforcement officer Brian Sicknick — have died, and lots of a lot more had been injured, as a end result of the insurrection. One girl was shot and killed by Capitol Police as the crowd breached the constructing and three other folks suffered clinical emergencies that proved fatal.

Washington, DC, police produced 61 arrests that day even though lots of a lot more have been arrested in the days because then, with at the very least 20 facing federal fees.

On Tuesday, the Justice Section reported it has charged about 70 situations and opened much more than 170 circumstance files — “with the quantities expected to mature into the hundreds” — in its federal investigation.

This story has been updated with further track record data.