Capitol riot: Updated list of arrests in New York State (photos)
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 25, 2021
This video still released by the FBI allegedly shows Utica native Jeffrey Sabol, wearing a helmet in red box, at the U.S. Capitol riot. Sabol, a Colorado geophysicist, is accused of dragging a police officer down the Capitol steps to be beaten on Jan. 6, 2021.
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More than 175 people have been arrested for their roles in the U.S. Capitol insurrection that left five people dead and more than 50 police officers injured.
Arrests include at least 15 people from New York state, with charges ranging from disorderly conduct and violent entry to assaulting police officers. A witness told the FBI that a Rochester man allegedly said they intended to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence.
Photos taken at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 showed a bearded man, later identified as Robert Keith Packer of Virginia, wearing a sweatshirt with the words “Camp Auschwitz” above a skull and crossbones. Under it: “Work Brings Freedom.” News reports said the back of the sweatshirt read “Staff.”
Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville chanted “Jews will not replace us,” carrying lighted tiki torches at a 2017 rally whose aim was to unite disparate right-wing extremist factions, many of which were represented in D.C. Despite all of this, the Proud Boys insist they have Jewish members, and their figurehead, Donald Trump, plumbly denies claims of antisemitism, pointing to Jewish members of his own family.
The Republican Party has sent the vanguard of a noisy new generation of racists, antisemitism appeasers and insurrection-enablers into Congress. And a deluded Ivanka Trump thinks the GOP’s dark future belongs to her