A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt over a Nazi-themed shirt was sentenced on Thursday to 75 days of imprisonment.

Robert Keith Packer, 57, declined to address U.S. District Judge Carl
Nichols before he sentenced him during hearing held by video conference.
The judge noted the “incredibly offensive” message on Packer’s
sweatshirt before imposing the sentence.

“It seems to me that he wore that sweatshirt for a reason. We don’t know what the reason was because Mr. Packer hasn’t told us,” Nichols said.

Photographs of Packer wearing the sweatshirt went viral after the Jan.
6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. When FBI agents asked him why he wore
it, he “fatuously” replied, “Because I was cold,” a federal prosecutor said in a court filing.

Packer’s sweatshirt depicted an image of a human skull above the words “Camp Auschwitz.” The word “Staff” was on the back. It also bore the phrase “Work Brings Freedom,” a rough translation of the German words
above the entrance gate to Auschwitz, the concentration camp in occupied
Poland where Nazis killed more than 1 million men, women and children.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst said she learned on Wednesday that
Packer also wore an “SS” T-shirt — a reference to the Nazi Party paramilitary organization founded by Adolf Hitler — under his sweatshirt
on Jan. 6. Packer “attacked the very government that gave him the
freedom to express those beliefs, no matter how abhorrent or evil they
may be” when he joined the mob supporting then-President Donald Trump,
the prosecutor said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/15/rioter-camp-auschwitz-sweatshirt-jail-term-00057110

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On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 6:44:38 PM UTC-7, kmiller wrote:

A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt over a Nazi-themed shirt was sentenced on Thursday to 75 days of imprisonment.

Robert Keith Packer, 57, declined to address U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols before he sentenced him during hearing held by video conference.
The judge noted the “incredibly offensive” message on Packer’s sweatshirt before imposing the sentence.

“It seems to me that he wore that sweatshirt for a reason. We don’t know what the reason was because Mr. Packer hasn’t told us,” Nichols said.

Photographs of Packer wearing the sweatshirt went viral after the Jan.
6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. When FBI agents asked him why he wore
it, he “fatuously” replied, “Because I was cold,” a federal prosecutor
said in a court filing.

Packer’s sweatshirt depicted an image of a human skull above the words “Camp Auschwitz.” The word “Staff” was on the back. It also bore the phrase “Work Brings Freedom,” a rough translation of the German words above the entrance gate to Auschwitz, the concentration camp in occupied Poland where Nazis killed more than 1 million men, women and children.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst said she learned on Wednesday that
Packer also wore an “SS” T-shirt — a reference to the Nazi Party paramilitary organization founded by Adolf Hitler — under his sweatshirt on Jan. 6. Packer “attacked the very government that gave him the
freedom to express those beliefs, no matter how abhorrent or evil they
may be” when he joined the mob supporting then-President Donald Trump,
the prosecutor said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/15/rioter-camp-auschwitz-sweatshirt-jail-term-00057110

Jedge Carl is a weak suck liberal! He should have thrown the book at that wormey, germey, Nazi!

Anne Frank Jr.

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One more scumbag headed to jail:

'Truly cowardly and despicable' | Capitol rioter who blind-side tackled
officer sentenced to 6.5 years in prison

Ralph Celentano III, of New York, was convicted of two felonies and
multiple misdemeanors for attacking police on Jan. 6.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/truly-cowardly-and-despicable-capitol-rioter-who-blind-side-tackled-officer-sentenced-to-65-years-in-prison-ralph-celentano/65-736e5661-54c1-4aa9-859c-24b633ae0370

Good riddance!

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kmiller wrote:

One more scumbag headed to jail:

'Truly cowardly and despicable' | Capitol rioter who blind-side
tackled officer sentenced to 6.5 years in prison

Ralph Celentano III, of New York, was convicted of two felonies and
multiple misdemeanors for attacking police on Jan. 6.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/truly-cowardly-and-despicable-capitol-rioter-who-blind-side-tackled-officer-sentenced-to-65-years-in-prison-ralph-celentano/65-736e5661-54c1-4aa9-859c-24b633ae0370

Good riddance!

What've you got against Italians? Where's the DEI?

--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

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