Denying it does not make it false. This was 2009, and the Tea Party DID exist. Are you trying to justify this, or just try to say these people were not what they actually were?
Mrs Gonzalez told the court that her husband woke her up just before 1am on May 30 and said that the police were at the door.
The couple went to the front room - where Brisenia had spent the night on the sofa to be near her new dog - and spotted two people outside.
Both were in camouflage. Mrs Gonzalez said one was a heavy-set woman while the other was a man whose face was blackened with greasepaint. He was armed with a rifle and pistol.
The mother-of-one told the court the pair had demanded to be let in, claiming the family were harbouring a fugitive.
They then burst into the house. The man told Mr Flores: 'Don't take this personal, but this bullet has your name on it.'
 Accused: Shawna Forde is one of three people charged with two counts of first-degree murder over the shooting of Brisenia Flores and her father
He then opened fire, hitting Mrs Gonzalez in the shoulder and leg.
Her husband was hit multiple times before the gunman turned to her daughter.
She described hearing the murderer reload his weapon as he ignored Brisenia's pleas for mercy and then open fire.
The gunman and his accomplice left but as Mrs Gonzalez called 911, she heard him returning.
Desperately wounded, she dragged herself through the house to find her husband's gun and exchanged fire with her assailant, who police say is Jason Bush.
He was injured and fled the scene.
Forde was arrested shortly after the shooting. She had Mrs Gonzalez's wedding ring and other jewellery, according to police.
Investigators said that she was originally a member of the anti-illegal immigrant Minuteman Project but left to form a more extreme breakaway group.
Members claim that it is their civil duty to protect the Mexican border with weapons as the authorities are unable to do so.
Forde allegedly funded her by group by robbing the houses of suspected drug dealers. When she reportedly proposed one such raid to two potential accomplices, they phoned the FBI - who did nothing because they believed the suggestion was too ludicrous to be true.
Prosecutor Kellie Johnson said: 'Not only will the state prove to you that Shawna Forde was in that house that night, barking orders and telling people what to do, the state will prove that Shawna Forde organised and planned this offence.'
Forde's lawyer Eric Larsen told the court that she was not at the house and that much of the evidence was circumstantial
Forde denies murder. The trial continues. If convicted, she faces the death penalty. |
