Reffitt is not charged with illegally entering Capitol. On cross-examination, Reffitt's lawyer repeatedly asked Kerkhoff whether she had seen his client enter the Capitol building, like hundreds of others. Nothing seemed to stop the mob advancing toward the officers, she said.įearing that the officers would be overtaken, Kerkhoff made an urgent call for help – "We need backup!" – according to a radio transmission played for the jury. Kerkhoff estimated that she fired 40 to 50 projectiles, aiming at Reffitt's chest, shins and thighs. "My concern is that they would get to members of Congress." "They didn’t seem to take effect," Kerkhoff told the jury, and Reffitt waved the crowd on. Kerkhoff, who has left the Capitol Police, said Reffitt disregarded repeated commands to stop, prompting her and two other officers to launch a barrage of nonlethal projectiles. Narrating a video showing an angry crowd advancing up an outside stairway of the Capitol, officer Shauni Kerkhoff identified Reffitt, wearing a blue coat and black tactical helmet, as leading a flag-waving mob.
The government's first witness – a Capitol Police officer – contradicted the defense lawyer's account. "I just want to see Pelosi’s head hitting every f- stair on the way out," Reffitt allegedly boasted in another message. "We’re taking the Capitol before the day is over," Nestler said, referring to messages the defendant allegedly sent to associates. Attorney Jeffrey Nestler said Guy Wesley Reffitt, a member of the paramilitary Three Percenters, plunged into the crowd with a handgun holstered to his waist, planning remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. 6, 2021, casting a Texas man as the "tip of this mob's spear" when rioters sought to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
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WASHINGTON – Federal prosecutors on Wednesday opened the first jury trial to emerge from the sprawling investigation of the Capitol assault on Jan.
Two of Reffitt's teenage children are expected to be called as prosecution witnesses."The defendant was the tip of this mob’s spear," one federal prosecutor said.Guy Wesley Reffitt has pleaded not guilty to all counts.
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