An Army reservist who looted the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot was widely known as a white supremacist who made anti-Semitic comments while serving at a New Jersey naval facility, prosecutors revealed late Friday.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who was a security contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle and aware of secret-level intelligence, was arrested in January and described at the time as an “ open white supremacist ” and Nazi sympathizer. However, prosecutors on Friday laid out details in a court of law from interviews with 44 of his colleagues who underscored the breadth of his bigoted beliefs.
“A naval petty officer stated that the defendant was constantly talking about Jewish people and recalled that the defendant said, ‘Hitler should have done the job,'” the prosecutors wrote in the statement, which was intended to argue for Hale’s continued detention. -Cusanelli awaiting trial.
One interviewee stated that Hale-Cusanelli had “extremist or radical views on the Jewish people, minorities and women,” and another said he hated Jews on a daily basis.
Prosecutors also explained details of the contents of his personal phone, which they said contained anti-Semitic and racist content as part of his “ fantasy of taking part in another civil war. ”
Hale-Cusanelli’s lawyer argued that he deserved a provisional release and that he was not a white supremacist, but prosecutors dismissed that argument and pointed to the wealth of comments he made to colleagues and on his phone.
The latest filing underscores the involvement of white supremacists in the January 6 uprising, which unsuccessfully attempted to halt the certification of the electoral college results of the 2020 presidential election.
Several far-right groups are known to have participated in the uprising, and a video shows several rioters making racist remarks. A Confederate flag was also seen over the Capitol when insurgents broke through the building.
Hale-Cusanelli’s involvement also highlights the task for policymakers trying to eradicate white supremacy from the armed forces.
Minister of Defence Lloyd Austin
Lloyd Austin Tucker Carlson hits back to ‘awakened generals’ after criticism of National Guard mission in Capitol expected to cost 1 million Japanese prime minister, expected to be Biden’s first foreign visit to White House MORE last month, military chiefs and civilian secretaries of the armed forces rallied to step up the internal struggle against white supremacy in the military and issued a 60-day “withdrawal warrant” for each branch to strengthen existing regulations.