The 18-year-old sat in his bedroom, searching for info on the FBI tip line. His father’s texts before Jan. 6 had grown menacing. “We’re about to rise up.”
WASHINGTON—Two weeks before Jackson Reffitt’s father traveled to Washington and took part in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, the 18-year-old sat in his bedroom in his parents’ Wylie, Texas, home and searched his phone for information about the FBI’s tip line.
His father, Guy Reffitt, had sent what appeared to be increasingly menacing messages about lawmakers to a family group chat. “Too many lines have been crossed. Too many years this happened. We are about to rise up,” the father had written.
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