NBC News reports:
A Jan. 6 rioter who wore a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt inside the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 75 days in prison on Thursday, matching what the government had requested. Robert Keith Packer was arrested the week after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and pleaded guilty a year later. Packer’s sister, Kimberly Rice, tried to appeal to the judge on her brother’s behalf, writing a letter in which she describes him as the “best brother with a huge heart and gentle soul.”
“Over the last year and half the media has portrayed and described a person who he is NOT and NEVER has been. His day to day living over the last year and half has been so altered and a major struggle for him, living in fear because of the news media slandering his name and making him out to be some monster that he absolutely is not, losing his long tenure job, death threats to him and and so on,” she wrote. She claimed he was being demonized “all over a sweatshirt — yes, a sweatshirt.”
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Robert Packer wore a “CAMP AUSCHWITZ STAFF” sweatshirt on Jan. 6.
He told the FBI he wore it “because I was cold,” and his sister told a judge you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.
So let’s rip off the proverbial cover jacket, shall we?
Ah, there’s a SS shirt underneath. pic.twitter.com/OGqWzZc8aL
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 14, 2022
A Schutzstaffel shirt, next to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Add it to the list. https://t.co/0tubrHISQg
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 14, 2022
The sister of Robert Packer — the Jan. 6 rioter wearing a “CAMP AUSCHWITZ” sweatshirt when he stormed the U.S. Capitol — is asking a judge to show leniency, writing that it is “easy to judge a book by it’s cover.”
She concedes his sweatshirt “could be considered in poor taste.” pic.twitter.com/zAaUAfKBAz
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 10, 2022