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We already pointed out this audio recording of the 911 call placed by the lone survivor of that botched home-invasion robbery carried out by Shawna Forde and her gang of Minutemen. But further listening reveals a number of details about the crime.

It begins simply:

"Somebody just came in and shot my daughter and my husband."

The dispatcher begins asking questions and obviously dispatches deputies to respond. As she's asking about the killers, the victim cries out:

"They're coming back in! They're coming back in!"

An exchange of gunfire ensues. When the woman comes back on the line, she explains:

"They told us that somebody had, um, escaped jail or something and they wanted to come in and look at my house or something. And they just shot my husband. And they shot my daughter and they shot me."

"... Oh my God, I can't believe they killed my family."

She explains that the killers walked up cold-bloodedly to her daughter, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores, as she cowered and cried, and shot her two or three times anyway.

Later in the call she tells the dispatcher that the shooting began when her husband became suspicious of the invaders and asked them about their guns.

We also learn that the shooters were two men -- both tall, one white with a painted face, the other Latino -- and a "shorter fat woman."

That very much describes the gang that was arrested this week.

Scott North and Jackson Holz have more details on the tape.

Vivir Latino points out that there's been a disturbing theme in some of the coverage -- suggesting that perhaps the family somehow had it coming:

Something that tends to happen when the media covers these types of horrors, is double victimization. In an effort to answer the question why, subtleties, like how immigration has been racialized and how Latinos, painted as immigrants, are criminalized and dehumanized, get swept under the rug.

It certainly does raise the question: Why are the media paying so little attention to this story? Are they still wedded to their favorite narrative, that the Minutemen are just some big "neighborhood watch"?

As we said, that's some neighborhood watch.

I guess they're too busy covering that all-important David Letterman protest.

Tags: 911, forde, Minutemen, Robbery, Shawna Forde

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Federal law enforcement should also round up Gilchrist and the other "Minutemen" scumbags and give them an opportunity to implicate themselves through harsh inquiry.

It's about time the Minutemen be classified as a domestic terror group or whatever and all their guns and weapons should be confiscated.

I'll even go in for questioning if I have to for my involvement back in 2005. I never owned or touched a fire arm and mostly did stuff in the Gilchrist campaign. I did a couple single day visits to the Jacumba Gap section of the border and one overnight thing at Campo. But that's about it. If that means I need to go in for questioning or whatever, so be it. If I have to go to jail to make peace with the indigenous, so be it.

SAN DIEGO -- A jury ordered San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk to pay $135,000 as part of a defamation lawsuit filed by a woman who monitored the group's activities, 10News reported.

Joanne Yoon monitored the activities of the Minutemen at day labor sites where the group frequently protested and has captured many incidents on tape.

"The Minutemen have been very verbally aggressive; it was getting physically aggressive and it was getting really scary," said Yoon.