Left: Jan. 6 rioter Richard Ackerman identified in photos provided by Justice Department with red square. Right: Justice Department photo exhibit shows a text message sent by Ackerman where he celebrates stealing a police officer’s helmet as a “war trophy.”
In exchange for the dismissal of other charges including assault, a New Hampshire man who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 — and who federal prosecutors say is part of a neo-Nazi group — has pleaded guilty to obstructing police and stealing one officer’s helmet as his self-proclaimed “war trophy.”
The guilty plea was announced by the Justice Department on Thursday and according to the plea agreement, Richard Ackerman, 22, has admitted to traveling to Washington, D.C., from his home state on Jan. 6 and then joining a mass of rioters fighting with police before he picked up a water bottle and hurled it at officers mired inside the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace Tunnel.
