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25 Feb, 10 tweets, 4 min read
Video has surfaced of Riley Williams, a 22-year-old from Pennsylvania who is facing charges for her part in the US Capitol riot, making a Nazi salute.

New investigation from @iwriteok bellingcat.com/news/americas/…
@IwriteOK Williams ex-partner has alleged to the FBI that she stole Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the Capitol riot, something she denies.

While Williams has not been charged with that offence, she is facing multiple charges including aiding/abetting others to “embezzle, steal, purloin.”
@IwriteOK Yet several days after Williams was charged in mid-January, an antifascist activist reached out to Bellingcat with a video they believed showed her pledging allegiance to Adolf Hitler.
@IwriteOK The video shows a woman with a skullmask, hat and sunglasses covering her face.

She dances, before making a straight arm salute and a voice narrates the words “Heil Hitler”
@IwriteOK Other items visible in the video include a book on the Waffen SS.
@IwriteOK While the person in the video’s face is covered, Bellingcat has been able to establish it is Williams by piecing together a variety of clues detailed in court documents, social posts and images she uploaded online.
@IwriteOK Bellingcat reached out to Williams lawyer before publication but did not receive a response.
@IwriteOK However NBC News, who Bellingcat shared its findings with, did receive a reply from Williams lawyer.
@IwriteOK After initially denying it was Williams in the video, he said that it was meant as a joke meant to mack and oppose the beliefs of “Wignats,” a group he said were “like Nazis”
@IwriteOK Read the full story here: bellingcat.com/news/americas/…

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