Rifit’s defense attorneys argued for his release, treating his words about the violence as mere rhetoric.
Farooqi decided to keep Rifit in jail.
The judge’s decision sparked outrage among family members at the court’s conference call line. Refitt’s wife, daughter and daughter-in-law’s boyfriend had gathered for a hearing on the line, the daughter’s boyfriend also testified in court on Monday.
“[It] Not an easy thing to say, but I think the law is needed in this case. … This is clearly a heavy burden on your family, “Farooqi said at Monday’s hearing.
Riffit traveled to Washington in the early days of January with guns in his car, according to a filing filed in the Judiciary Department court.
After the attack, he returned home to Texas – where he was met by his 16-year-old daughter and 18-year-old son, who rejected pro-Trump politics. The trio argued, Rifit told his daughter he would shoot her through her cell phone if she posted about him on social media, according to court records and her testimony at the hearing Monday. He eventually told his daughter and son that they would be traitors if they turned him over, and “shot the traitor,” his daughter testified.
The court hearing was at least the third time Rafit’s family members had given details about it to authorities.
The daughter also testified before a grand jury about her father, according to Monday’s proceedings.
“She’s not a violent person. She just talks. She talks a lot. … She’s just a drama queen.” “I don’t think he was scared. He’s annoying in a way.”
In the days following the attack, Guy Refitt was tapped to speak inside his home, and according to the filing in court, the plaintiff now has audio recordings. At home, Refit talked about the video he took on Jan. 6, she was devastated and defended her part in the storms, and he promised it wouldn’t be done.
The judge said he believed Rafit could still be dangerous to the community, especially with the weapons he possessed, his statements about future violence and the additional messages he sent to other Trump supporters who supported the uprising against the American regime. Farooqi also noted that a silencer was owned for a refit gun, which was found in his home.
The plaintiff said Raffitt and three other percentages traveled to Washington in early January when he was accompanied by an AR-15 rifle and a pistol, prosecutors said. Prosecutors say Refit, armed with body armor, carried pistol and plastic cuff controls as he advanced to the police line protecting the capital. When investigators later searched his home and found his weapons, Refitt first told him that the gun’s silence was a “fuel filter.”
According to the Justice Department’s court filing, Refit also sent messages earlier in the day about “marching with the heat,” and after the season, others turned their attention to the mainstream media and technology companies, according to the Justice Department’s court filings.
The plaintiff says he also charged three other percentages over an application conveying the message to recapture Capitol.
Prosecutors say the Three Percent extremist group has tried to align itself with members who believe it was a small armed group of American revolutionaries who fought against the British in the Revolutionary War. It is one of the handful of extremist groups active during the Trump era that federal investigators have dug into as they try to gain a better understanding of planning and coordination before the Capitol riots.
Prosecutors also said at Monday’s hearing that the leader of the Three Percentages was questioned and later arrested, but did not give further details or names.
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