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Jan. 15, 2021
WASHINGTON – U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi cited on Friday the open display of antisemitic symbols at the Capitol riots as part of the motivation for launching a formal review into last week s violence. So many disgusting images, but one figure of a man and a shirt with Auschwitz on it: Work equals freedom, Pelosi said in a press conference from the Capitol. In January one year ago, I had the privilege of bringing a delegation to Yad Vashem in Israel to join heads of state – I came as the head of this Congress – to observe the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Pelosi continued.
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Rioters who participated in last week s insurgence at the U.S. Capitol continue to be charged for their involvement in the deadly riots. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
HAMPTON ROADS, VA A Hampton Roads man who was photographed wearing a sweatshirt with the words Camp Auschwitz while at last week s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was scheduled to make his first court appearance in Norfolk on Wednesday on charges related to the riot, reports indicated.
Robert Keith Packer, 56, was arrested by federal authorities and was turned over to U.S. marshals, according to media reports. Parker has been charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, the report stated.
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Virginia man who took part in the storming of the U.S. Capitol wearing a sweatshirt that said Camp Auschwitz is among a number of people arrested by the FBI over the assault, multiple media outlets reported on Tuesday. Robert Keith Parker appeared in a virtual hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of unlawful entry and violent entry and disorderly conduct. Details of his arrest were still under seal at the time of his court appearance and he was released on his own recognizance. Media outlets reported that Parker was the man shown in many photographs of last Wednesday s assault on the Capitol wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the words Camp Auschwitz . Auschwitz was the Nazi death camp where about 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed in gas chambers or by other means during World War Two. The sweatshirt also bore a skull and cross bones and the words Work Brings Freedom - echoing th
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