Crime & Safety
VA Man Who Wore 'Camp Auschwitz' Sweatshirt In Capitol Attack Pleads Guilty
A Virginia man who wore a "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has pleaded guilty, the AP reported.
WASHINGTON, DC — A Virginia man who wore a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty on Wednesday to parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building, The Associated Press reported.
Photographs of Robert Keith Packer, 57, of Newport News wearing the sweatshirt were seen worldwide after the Jan. 6 attack. Packer's sweatshirt also had the phrase “Work Brings Freedom," a translation of the German words above the entrance gate to Auschwitz, the concentration camp in Poland where Nazis killed more than 1 million men, women and children.
The misdemeanor charge against Packer carries a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols is scheduled to sentence him on April 7.
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