Posted on 01/24/2021 8:34:34 AM PST by TigerClaws
WYLIE, Texas — A Texas man identified as one of the Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier this month is accused of threatening to shoot his children if they turned him in to federal authorities.
Guy Wesley Reffitt, 48, of Wylie, is charged with obstruction of justice for the alleged threats. He is also charged with knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
As of Thursday, he was being held at the jail in Fannin County, Texas.
According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, FBI agents interviewed Reffitt’s wife and children at their suburban Dallas home on Jan. 15, when he was arrested for the unlawful entry warrant. GPS data from his cellphone placed Reffitt near the Capitol building the night of the riot.
Video from the scene, including footage shot by Reuters, shows a man identified by agents as Reffitt being pepper-sprayed by a Capitol police officer “at or past the police line protecting the building,” the court records state. The footage appears to show Reffitt standing on the Capitol steps as he flushes his eyes with a bottle of water.
Reffitt’s wife identified him as a member of the far-right 3 Percenters militia group, the court documents indicate. She described him as “super passionate” and prone to extreme statements. “Militia extremists sometimes call themselves 3 Percenters (‘III%ers’ or ‘threepers’) based on the myth that only 3% of American colonists took up arms against the British during the American Revolution,” a footnote in the complaint states. “Some III%ers regard the present-day U.S. government as analogous to British authorities during the Revolution in terms of infringements on civil liberties.”
‘You know what happens to traitors’
Reffitt’s son, who is an adult but lives with his parents, told investigators he was there Jan. 8 when his father and another man returned home from Washington.
Reffitt told his son and other family members that he was at the Capitol when the insurrection took place. Reffitt, who federal investigators identified in footage from the melee, said that he’d gone, armed, to Washington to “protect the country.”
“We stormed the Capitol,” Reffitt, who wore a helmet fitted with a GoPro camera, told his family, according to his son. He said he’d captured some of the activities on the camera he wore.
Trump supporters are shown Jan. 6, 2021, climbing the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
Trump supporters are shown Jan. 6, 2021, climbing the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) The son said he saw his father bring an AR-15 rifle and a Smith & Wesson pistol from the vehicle into the house the day he came home. The guns were seized during a Jan. 15 search of the Reffitt home. On Jan. 11, Reffitt said in front of his children, which included his juvenile daughter, that he had to “erase everything” because the FBI was now watching him, the complaint states.
“Reffitt further told son that if son crossed the line and reported Reffitt to the police, putting the family in jeopardy, Reffitt would have no option but to do (his) duty for (his) country and ‘do what he had to do,’” according to the document.
Are you threatening us?” his son asked. “Don’t put words in my mouth,” Reffitt responded. The son believed that his father had been threatening his life.
Also shows why you should NEVER talk to law enforcement. Say nothing. Ask for your lawyer. Always. They are there to lie and entrap.
So now its against the law to threaten your kids? My mom and dad could have spent their entire lives in prison for that.
The man was not threatening CHILDREN!
What a misleading headline.
His son was an adult, not a child, and the guy did not threatened more than one minor child.
Journalists are liars.
I like how this story uses the term “the insurrection”. They have no idea what an insurrection is.
Also the “myth” that only three percent of colonists took part in the revolution?
The son is a liar as well and made too many assumptions.
Kicking him out of the house and writing him out of the will are also actions he could have taken, but they don't make for as sensational headlines.
Nice kids. Some other kid I read about had his father cremated against his wishes after he died and flushed his ashes down the toilet because his dad was a Trump supporter. You have to wonder where we went so wrong that kids grow up hating their country so badly that they will turn on their own family.
Snitches get stitches, son, or they at least have to move out of the basement and find their own place to live.
Is it a “myth” that only 3% of the colonists actually picked up arms? Seems hard to label a myth. Many More supported it obviously, but how many actually picked up arms (and how do you define “picked up arms”?)
It does not appear that his son turned him in, but rather he turned himself in by filming his actions.
A guy in Texas had two guns? Well, something sure was up.
Are you threatening us?” his son asked. “Don’t put words in my mouth,” Reffitt responded. The son believed that his father had been threatening his life.
I we sure this article is not just a joke?
And why are we not told the name of the adult son living at home who wears the mark of the squealer?
According to this he didn’t actually enter the Capitol.
He was on the steps and got pepper sprayed in the face.
https://www.scribd.com/document/491622614/Guy-Wesley-Reffitt-Federal-Criminal-Complaint
By that standard, anyone at the MLK speech at the Lincoln Memorial could be arrested for just exercising free speech rights.
The “traitors get shot” wasn’t an actual and immediate threat.
Note two other guys from Texas are being held until trial without bond. Murderers get bond.
This is after a year of BLM and Antifa thugs causing two billion dollars worth of damage and destroying hundreds of small businesses. The rare times they were arrested the Soros-funded DAs dropped the charges shortly thereafter or Kamala and her buddies bailed them out to riot more.
“Reffitt told his son and other family members that he was at the Capitol when the insurrection took place”
Im sure those are the man exact words.
Was he threatening his children, or advising them that he himself would likely be shot, and his children would feel guilty if their actions resulted in his death?
3% of the colonists defeated the entire British army and navy and all the mercenaries hired to help them?
They were some badass mutha’s fer sher!
It’s good to play the game on your home turf.
God bless the red states.
Not exactly.
French fleet ‘defeated’ the English fleet to prevent Cornwallis from escaping Yorktown.
French army provided the money and siege engines.
Wow.
Meh, Factual histery. Who needs it?!?!
[[You have to wonder where we went so wrong that kids grow up hating their country so badly that they will turn on their own family.]]
Brainwashing and Indoctrination in public school is what happened
The law includes “on the grounds”. No need to even be on the outside steps. Guilty on the grass. Who knew that before now? Is this really the USA?
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