BRUCEVILLE-EDDY, Texas — The video above was posted on Jan. 28, 2020. You can watch the new video in a link provided below.
The Bruceville-Eddy winery owner who took part in the riot at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. was denied his request for a new detention hearing Monday.
Christopher Grider's attorney filed the motion for a new hearing on Feb. 1 based on new videos and pictures he argued were not available for review prior to the first detention hearing..
Western District of Texas Judge Susan Hightower ordered Grider be taken to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 27 to be arraigned on charges of destruction or damage to government property, knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted area without authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
On Monday, Hightower ruled that because Grider's case was moved to U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia her court no longer had the jurisdiction to order a new hearing.
The ruling states Grider can seek a second detention hearing in the D.C. court.
According to a criminal complaint, Grider was seen in several areas of the Capitol before arriving to the Speaker's Lobby where a woman named Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot. He was also seen holding a black helmet and later handing it to another person who used it to break the glass windows of the doors leading to the House chambers. Video showed him trying to push open the doors and then kick them.
Grider faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted.
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According to the motion for the second hearing, in the new videos "the Defendant is seen walking up to an entrance on the ground level of the Capitol building and walking through an open door along with hundreds of other individuals. While other individuals nearby shattered glass windows, there is no obvious indication that the door which the Defendant walked through was opened by force and there is clearly no forcible entry made by the Defendant."
A separate video, according to the motion, shows Grider "pleading with the officers, telling them, 'There are two cops getting crushed.'"
The motion also included a link to a YouTube video that showed Grider following officers as they are moving away from the doors, outside of which, Babbitt was shot.
Click here to watch the video. Warning: It contains images and language some may find offensive.
Grider's attorney, Brent Mayr, argued the video shows Grider "wanted his voice to be heard and nothing more. He submits that wanting to be heard does not clearly and convincingly equate him to a person who is so dangerous and so violent that there are no condition or combination of conditions of release would reasonably assure the safety of the community."