Jeffrey Phillips is manager for Adam Kokesh, a corporal in the United States Marine Corps and a veteran of the Iraq War who posted a controversial YouTube video of himself loading a shotgun in Freedom Plaza in the District of Columbia in open defiance of DC law. In the 23-second video, titled "Open Carry March on DC a Success," as the Capitol looms in the distance, Kokesh loads the shotgun while addressing the camera. On the evening of July 9 a U.S. Park Police SWAT team raided Kokesh's house in Herndon, Virginia, executing a search warrant for the shotgun and raw footage from the July 4 video. Kokesh was taken to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center and charged with two felonies.