Shooting at Mexicans: Chilling Video Exposed
The Intelligence Report has obtained a chilling video that Robert Crooks, the leader of the nativist extremist group , recently E-mailed to several other prominent nativist leaders, including Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the original Minuteman Project. In the E-mail, Crooks suggests that Gilchrist is a weakling who can 鈥淭alk the Talk鈥� but not 鈥淲alk the Walk."
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鈥淭his video shows how to keep a 鈥楬ome Depot鈥� parking lot empty,鈥� Crooks (right) wrote in his sneering July 26 E-mail, titled 鈥淗omeland Defence.鈥� Gilchrist, whose organization had earlier provided Crooks' group with supplies, responded by banning Crooks from contact with his own group.
Filmed through a night-vision scope, the four-minute video shows two or three men standing on a hill that appears to be on the Mexican side of the border, beyond a barbed-wire fence. 鈥淎ll right, come on across, motherf------,鈥� a man says off camera in a quiet voice. 鈥淵eah, go that way. I dare you to go that way. That鈥檚 my f------听trail, b----!鈥�
Then, after muttering about the distant figures being 鈥渃ockroaches,鈥� the man shouts out loud, 鈥淗ey putos [鈥渇------鈥漖, one, two, three!鈥� Next comes the distinct sound of a shotgun shell being chambered, followed by a sudden flash of light and the sound of a shotgun blast. The direction of the gunfire is unclear.
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The Mountain Minutemen is one of several armed Minutemen spinoffs now active on the U.S.-Mexico border in the rugged desert between Campo, Calif. and Jacumba, Calif. Crooks has a reputation as a particularly hard-line nativist, and his group is believed to be tiny.
When the camera pans back to the hilltop, the men are gone. 鈥淎nd that鈥檚 how you get rid of Mexicans,鈥� the narrator says with a laugh, before concluding with an apology for the shaky camera work. 鈥淪orry folks, it鈥檚 kind of hard to shoot a shotgun and a video at the same time.鈥�
In an E-mail to Hatewatch, Crooks (below) said he did not film the video, did not post it to a video-sharing site, and is not the narrator. He did not confirm or deny forwarding it to Gilchrist.
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