Still mourning the shooting spree that claimed a 9-year-old girl's life, Arizona is bracing for the trial of another accused child-killer: a female Minuteman. Terry Greene Sterling reports.
Early on the morning of May 30, 2009, Raul Flores heard a knock at the door of his Arivaca, Arizona, home. When he opened it, he found a man and a woman claiming to be law-enforcement officers in search of fugitives. Minutes later, the man shot Flores to death. Then, authorities say, he pumped three bullets into Flores' wife, Gina Gonzalez, who survived but played dead. "Why did you shoot my mom?" Gonzalez's 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia Flores, asked the gunman, according to prosecutors. Those were her last words. The man put a gun to her head, fired off two rounds, and killed her.
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The chilling murders devastated residents of tiny Arivaca. Now,...
Early on the morning of May 30, 2009, Raul Flores heard a knock at the door of his Arivaca, Arizona, home. When he opened it, he found a man and a woman claiming to be law-enforcement officers in search of fugitives. Minutes later, the man shot Flores to death. Then, authorities say, he pumped three bullets into Flores' wife, Gina Gonzalez, who survived but played dead. "Why did you shoot my mom?" Gonzalez's 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia Flores, asked the gunman, according to prosecutors. Those were her last words. The man put a gun to her head, fired off two rounds, and killed her.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Why Obama Won't Touch Gun Control
The chilling murders devastated residents of tiny Arivaca. Now,...
- 1/21/2011
- by Terry Greene Sterling
- The Daily Beast
Camino Bluffs Pictures
PARK CITY -- The undercurrent of fear, paranoia and hostility brewing in the country comes home to roost in "Farmingville", Catherine Tambini and Carlos Sandoval's disturbing documentary about xenophobia in suburbia.
A normally conservative and staid working-class community on Long Island, Farmingville becomes galvanized around the issue of illegal aliens from Mexico who have settled in town looking for work as day laborers. The strength of the film is its presentation of a complex national issue as it rears its ugly head on a local level. The POV Production will make provocative television with a good chance for afterlife in the classroom.
The events of 2000-2001 depicted in the film, including the brutal beating of two immigrants, are especially timely in light of recent efforts to forge a new national immigration policy, one that will no doubt be unpopular to the majority of Farmingville residents.
One local faction, led by Margaret Bianculli-Dyber, a burly New York high school teacher, argues that deportation is the best policy. National activists like the heinous Glenn Spencer, from a group called American Patrol, flock to Farmingville to throw fuel on the fire. They imagine the immigrants coming to reconquer and take over the country, and together they sing "God Bless America".
Saner voices try to prevail with the creation of a job center where the newcomers can congregate and wait for work. But this measure is ultimately defeated.
Tambini and Sandoval lived in the community for a year and present the story with great immediacy. The film could have benefited from some deeper analysis of why these people feel their way of life is so threatened. But any way you look at it, it's a sobering view of where this country could be headed.
PARK CITY -- The undercurrent of fear, paranoia and hostility brewing in the country comes home to roost in "Farmingville", Catherine Tambini and Carlos Sandoval's disturbing documentary about xenophobia in suburbia.
A normally conservative and staid working-class community on Long Island, Farmingville becomes galvanized around the issue of illegal aliens from Mexico who have settled in town looking for work as day laborers. The strength of the film is its presentation of a complex national issue as it rears its ugly head on a local level. The POV Production will make provocative television with a good chance for afterlife in the classroom.
The events of 2000-2001 depicted in the film, including the brutal beating of two immigrants, are especially timely in light of recent efforts to forge a new national immigration policy, one that will no doubt be unpopular to the majority of Farmingville residents.
One local faction, led by Margaret Bianculli-Dyber, a burly New York high school teacher, argues that deportation is the best policy. National activists like the heinous Glenn Spencer, from a group called American Patrol, flock to Farmingville to throw fuel on the fire. They imagine the immigrants coming to reconquer and take over the country, and together they sing "God Bless America".
Saner voices try to prevail with the creation of a job center where the newcomers can congregate and wait for work. But this measure is ultimately defeated.
Tambini and Sandoval lived in the community for a year and present the story with great immediacy. The film could have benefited from some deeper analysis of why these people feel their way of life is so threatened. But any way you look at it, it's a sobering view of where this country could be headed.
Camino Bluffs Pictures
PARK CITY -- The undercurrent of fear, paranoia and hostility brewing in the country comes home to roost in "Farmingville", Catherine Tambini and Carlos Sandoval's disturbing documentary about xenophobia in suburbia.
A normally conservative and staid working-class community on Long Island, Farmingville becomes galvanized around the issue of illegal aliens from Mexico who have settled in town looking for work as day laborers. The strength of the film is its presentation of a complex national issue as it rears its ugly head on a local level. The POV Production will make provocative television with a good chance for afterlife in the classroom.
The events of 2000-2001 depicted in the film, including the brutal beating of two immigrants, are especially timely in light of recent efforts to forge a new national immigration policy, one that will no doubt be unpopular to the majority of Farmingville residents.
One local faction, led by Margaret Bianculli-Dyber, a burly New York high school teacher, argues that deportation is the best policy. National activists like the heinous Glenn Spencer, from a group called American Patrol, flock to Farmingville to throw fuel on the fire. They imagine the immigrants coming to reconquer and take over the country, and together they sing "God Bless America".
Saner voices try to prevail with the creation of a job center where the newcomers can congregate and wait for work. But this measure is ultimately defeated.
Tambini and Sandoval lived in the community for a year and present the story with great immediacy. The film could have benefited from some deeper analysis of why these people feel their way of life is so threatened. But any way you look at it, it's a sobering view of where this country could be headed.
PARK CITY -- The undercurrent of fear, paranoia and hostility brewing in the country comes home to roost in "Farmingville", Catherine Tambini and Carlos Sandoval's disturbing documentary about xenophobia in suburbia.
A normally conservative and staid working-class community on Long Island, Farmingville becomes galvanized around the issue of illegal aliens from Mexico who have settled in town looking for work as day laborers. The strength of the film is its presentation of a complex national issue as it rears its ugly head on a local level. The POV Production will make provocative television with a good chance for afterlife in the classroom.
The events of 2000-2001 depicted in the film, including the brutal beating of two immigrants, are especially timely in light of recent efforts to forge a new national immigration policy, one that will no doubt be unpopular to the majority of Farmingville residents.
One local faction, led by Margaret Bianculli-Dyber, a burly New York high school teacher, argues that deportation is the best policy. National activists like the heinous Glenn Spencer, from a group called American Patrol, flock to Farmingville to throw fuel on the fire. They imagine the immigrants coming to reconquer and take over the country, and together they sing "God Bless America".
Saner voices try to prevail with the creation of a job center where the newcomers can congregate and wait for work. But this measure is ultimately defeated.
Tambini and Sandoval lived in the community for a year and present the story with great immediacy. The film could have benefited from some deeper analysis of why these people feel their way of life is so threatened. But any way you look at it, it's a sobering view of where this country could be headed.
- 1/21/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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