


"Ripping them out by their hair - every f***ing one of them." "We're taking the Capitol before the day is over," Reffitt said on the video. Cheery greetings shared with fellow protesters soon gave way to dark language. The government lingered on footage that Reffitt captured using a 360-degree camera attached to his helmet on Jan. 6 riot defendant was 'tip of this mob's spear,' prosecutor tells jury Of his actions that day, Reffitt said, "I didn't make it in. "Your father was there when an epic historical thing happened in this country," he said. One recording presented Guy Reffitt, on the evening he returned from the trip, narrating to his family video footage of the crowd.

He said the decision to turn his father in to authorities and share evidence against him was difficult, but was what he called, with some emotion, the "best-case scenario." "I felt pretty gross and I felt pretty uncomfortable for even thinking about doing something like this, but I knew that it would help immensely," Jackson testified Thursday about his decision to record his father last year. To build their case, authorities are using Guy Reffitt's own words against him, in the form of text messages, video that Reffitt captured himself amid the chaos in Washington last year and recordings that Jackson Reffitt made of his father on a cellphone when he returned home a few days later. Guy Reffitt faces five criminal charges, including weapons offenses and obstruction for allegedly threatening Jackson and his younger sister, Peyton, to keep quiet after the Capitol siege.
