First Capitol riot trial: Son takes stand to testify against his father

WASHINGTON — When Jackson Reffitt goes on the witness stand to testify against his father, it won’t be without trepidation.

“It might be my fault that I talked to authorities, but, I don’t want to think that. He’s an adult and he made his own decisions,” Jackson, now 19, said.

He’s been estranged from his family for more than a year since alerting the authorities to his father, 49-year-old Guy Wesley Reffitt, and his alleged participation in the Capitol riot. What’s more, Jackson told them, when his father returned home he warned him and his sister that if they cooperated with police, they would “be traitors, and traitors get shot.”

“What he was doing, he thought was right. But in the end, what he was doing was not right for him or his family or the country, even,” Jackson said.

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