Matson Browning is a 25-year law enforcement veteran who worked undercover along with his wife inside the Skinhead movement in Arizona solving multiple murders.
During this interview, Browning talks about one Skinhead named “JT” and the “Hunting Trips” they used to go on.
Browning: I’m trying to phrase what JT was. JT was a piece of garbage. Literally a piece of garbage. I say that with all due respect, he’s passed away. He killed himself after he killed a family of five. But he literally was the stereotypical racist, radicalized, white power skinhead, that’s JT Ready.
He was military trained, he was in the military. Got court-martialed, came to Arizona, radicalized himself in the doctrine of hate, but what JT did is he took that and formed a lot of different things and is a great example. Because as he grew older, he also grew older in the white power movement.
He started as a skinhead, then he moved into the political party, and then he went into the border groups. And then he went into the National Socialist movement. And then he created his own border group. And then he ran for Sheriff.
But before Sheriff he hooked up with the Republican party in Arizona and was buddies with a Senator, who was another piece of garbage.
But what JT would do - man the guy was so full of hate — he took his border people, and they would go down to the border and call it “Special Ops.” And they would go down — and we’re not just talking camping on the border, these guys — remember JT as military trained — they’d load up their ARs, they’d load up their shotguns, load up their handguns. Tach out, so they had their vests, camo everything on just like you would think the full military garb would be.
And then they’d go down to border and sit and wait. They’d literally hunt — just like you would hunt a deer or a coyote or anything else — and they’d wait for illegal immigrants to come across the border, and they’d shoot at ‘em. And if they didn’t hit them or kill them, the immigrants who are carrying the bags of marijuana or meth or anything that the coyotes are making them carry, the cartels. They would drop the bags and run back or scatter, and then JT and his crew would go pick up the bags of drugs, and sell the drugs, and then turn half the drugs into the border patrol and say “hey, look what we did for you” while they kept the other half and sold them to fund their movement.
So yeah, “Piece of Garbage.”
Here’s a local ABC report on JT’s murder-suicide.
Mark Pitcavage of the ADL: He represented in Arizona the nexus between two movements, the White Supremacist movement and the extreme wing of the anti-immigration movement. Especially the border vigilante groups. And he was someone who could move between these two spheres very easily. That’s where he made his mark in Arizona, unfortunately.
I would argue there really isn’t much difference between those two worlds other than the fact that the supremacists are open and honest about how they feel and what they’re doing and the rest of them are only pretending and lying to themselves.
Here’s an interview with JT Ready by Vice.
Vice News knew that he had connections to Neo-Nazis and knew had made some outrageous statements and they did ask him about that — but he just slickly ignored the question and kept on going with his PR.
Yeah, he was a real American hero — fighting the good fight, annihilating families.
May 3, 2012; -- Anti-immigration militia leader J.T. Ready killed his girlfriend three others during a violent domestic argument as someone in the home called 911, Arizona police said today.
Police in Gilbert, Ariz., were joined by FBI agents and members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in sorting through the carnage of the Wednesday killings.
Military-grade weapons and ammunition along with two barrels of chemicals found in the backyard have been removed from Ready's home.
"Right now we believe it's a domestic violence related situation," Sgt. Bill Balafas of the Gilbert, Ariz. Police Department told ABCNews.com.
An argument ensued inside the home J.T. Ready shared with his girlfriend Wednesday afternoon, police said.
"There was a 911 call regarding that argument. In the midst of that call, a shooting occurred. Mr. Ready shot and killed all four victims and then killed himself," Balafas said, adding that this will have to be confirmed through the medical examiner's report and forensics tests. No motive was given.
Three generations were among the dead. Ready's live-in girlfriend of two years, Lisa Mederos, 47, was killed, along with her daughter Amber Mederos, 23, and granddaughter Lilly, 1.
The body of Amber Mederos' boyfriend, Jim Hiott, 24, a veteran who served in Afghanistan, was found outside of the house near where Ready is believed to have killed himself, police said.
This case has all the classic hallmarks of a deeply disturbed individual who also happens to be highly armed. That combination can lead a minor domestic argument into a bloody massacre — this happens so often people like this are called Family Annihilators.
“The family annihilator is usually the senior man of the house, who is depressed, paranoid, intoxicated or a combination of these. He kills each member of the family who is present, sometimes including pets. He may commit suicide after killing the others, or may force the police to kill him.” – Forensic Psychiatrist P.E. Dietz (1986)
Familicide is defined as one family member who murders other members of their family, commonly taking the lives of all. It is most often used to describe cases where a parent, usually the father, kills his wife and children and then himself. These cases are horrifying acts that can wipe out an entire family, leaving relatives, friends, and colleagues stunned and confused. Often no outward signs were visible to suggest anyone was in danger or that there was a risk of an individual taking such horrific actions. It is a crime that has invoked horror and fascination in equal measures. For those with an interest in why such horrific crimes take place and how an individual can murder their own family, such cases are explored in detail.
Familicide is commonly intertwined with the term ‘family annihilator’ stemming from the act itself, that of family annihilation. Most researchers agree that this act is a form of mass murder due to the multiple victims involved.
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A research study published in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice in 2013 by Elizabeth Yardley, David Wilson, and Adam Lynes has been particularly influential in this field. They analyzed newspaper articles over three decades from 1980 to 2012 where cases of familicide were reported. They found a total of 71 cases where 59 of the perpetrators were male and over half were between the ages of 30-40 years old when they committed the crime.
Yardley, Wilson, and Lynes reported that 57% of cases they studied occurred inside the family home compared to 17% in an isolated country spot no doubt pre-selected by the offender. In 32% of cases, the method of killing was stabbing followed by 15% of cases involving carbon monoxide poisoning from a car exhaust. Most offenders were employed and aged between 30 and 39 years old at the time of the murders. In 68% of cases, the male annihilator committed suicide after the murders.
Professor David Wilson has stated that “family annihilators have received little attention as a separate category of killer” and they are “often treated like spree or serial murderers, a view which presupposes traits, such as the idea that the murderer ‘snaps’, or that after killing their partner or children the killer may force a stand off with the police“, which is not an entirely accurate representation of these killers.
A man filled with that much hate, seething inside him. At some point, it has to finally explode.
There is evidence that hate actually changes your brain neurology.
A 2008 study looked into which areas of the brain became activated when participants viewed photographs of “hated” subjects. While in an MRI scanner, participants viewed pictures of people they professed to hate and people toward whom they had neutral feelings.
The researchers recorded which areas of the brain were activated when each image was viewed. They assessed the participants’ hatred of the subjects using a questionnaire before scanning.
When participants viewed a hated face, several areas of the brain became activated: the medial frontal gyrus, right putamen, the premotor cortex, the frontal pole, and the medial insula. The greater the reported hate, the more these areas were activated.
The researchers noted that this pattern of activation was different from that of other closely related emotions, such as fear, anger, aggression, and danger. They concluded that “though these sentiments may constitute part of the behavior that results from hatred, the neural pathways for hate are distinct.”
Chambers commented on the findings of this study: “[Hate] activated areas of the frontal cortex which were related to how you would then react […] kind of preparing you for action. Also the areas around distress, reactivity, and movement. So you were prepared to react on your hatred.”
Interestingly, the patterns for hate share two areas with the pattern for romantic love: the putamenTrusted Source and the insulaTrusted Source. Could this help explain why love and hate are so closely linked?
This study noted a key difference between love and hate activation in the cerebral cortex. In love, large areas associated with judgment and reasoning are deactivated.
In hate, only a small area of the frontal cortex is deactivated, suggesting that the hater may want to exercise judgment in calculating moves to harm, injure, or otherwise exact revenge.
So that’s something to consider.
And for the record JT and his “Ready Rangers” weren’t an isolated case.
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Jesús Iván Sepúlveda Martínez started his fateful journey to find work in the United States in his father’s car before catching a bus from Ceballos, Mexico, to the border. The 22-year-old soon slipped into Texas and, with a group of about a dozen migrants, began traversing the parched landscape east of El Paso on foot.
Three days after Mr. Sepúlveda texted his father that he had made it across the border, the group stopped for water at a small pond along a rural road. Around sunset, two men in a pickup truck drove by, and the migrants took cover in the brush. Suddenly the truck stopped, backed up and stopped again.
One of the men emerged with a gun and opened fire, fatally striking Mr. Sepúlveda, wounding a young Mexican woman and making the southern border region around Sierra Blanca a new focal point in the nation’s increasingly contentious immigration debate.
What inflamed the already combustible situation was that the men charged with the shooting were familiar local fixtures: Michael Sheppard, the warden of a deeply troubled private prison in town who works closely with the sheriff, and his twin brother Mark Sheppard, an employee at the county jail that the sheriff runs.
Back in the original video they talk more about some of the various Border groups that JT inspired and have continued on including Shanwa Forde who was trained by JT and is currently on death row.
Assuming Shawna Forde, the kid-killing Minutewoman sentenced to death for the 2009 murders of an Arivaca man and his daughter, avoids her date with death, she won't be getting out of prison for a long, long time. In addition to her death sentence, Forde was sentenced to an additional 65 years in prison for the attempted first-degree murder of the wife of the man she killed, for five burglary counts, for an aggravated assault count, and for an armed robbery charge. Forde was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for each of the counts, all but one to be run consecutively.
Forde was convicted in February of murdering 29-year-old Raul Flores, and his 9-year-old daughter, Bresenia, during a home invasion on May 30, 2009. In February, she was sentenced to death. Following the murders, Forde, a founder of the anti-immigration group Minutemen American Defense Corps., told authorities she planned to take the group to "the next level," which apparently meant leading a raid on the Flores home looking for drugs and money to fund the group. During the raid, Flores, as well as Bresenia, were shot and killed. Flores' wife also was shot during the attack, but survived, and ultimately armed herself and chased away Forde and her accomplices in a shootout that left one of the attackers, Forde's co-defendant in the shooting, Jason Eugene Bush, wounded.
Browning continues:
The problem I have is that not all of them are good people. About 60-70 percent are good people doing good work, the rest of the people are just looking for a fight. The rest are looking for “who can I shoot at?” The rest of the people are looking for a reason to hook onto something, to go an do what they wanna do.
And that’s the problem I have with it, they’re not all good people. The guy who founded [Army of God] might be really good, he just wants to make a difference somewhere.
This is not the same group “Army of God” that was founded by Rev. Spitz, which has participated in multiple murders of abortion doctors and terrorism against women’s clinics. The border group is called “God’s Army” who are different, but the name of both these groups in Arabic is “Hezballah.”
Browning goes on to describe another group he was asked to infiltrate after he retired and as soon as they found out he was an ex-cop he got to bypass their background checks and was made a member of their “Special Ops” sitting on the border with a .50 cal ready to shoot migrants.
And it’s not just on this side of the border.
Eleven Mexican former police officers were found guilty on Thursday in the murders of 17 migrants who were shot and burned near the United States border, prosecutors said.
The prosecutor's office said in a statement it had "managed to obtain a conviction" against 11 police officers charged with homicide, while another one was found guilty of abuse of office.
After a trial that lasted more than three months, judge Patricio Lugo Jaramillo ruled there was enough evidence to convict the former police officers.
The killings took place on Jan. 21, 2021 in the community of Santa Anita in Tamaulipas state, close to the border with the United States, where 16 migrants from Guatemala and one from Honduras were headed.
The victims "lost their lives due to gunshot wounds and were subsequently incinerated," the prosecutor's statement read.
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At least 853 migrants died trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border unlawfully over a 12-month span in 2021-2022, making fiscal year 2022 the deadliest year for migrants recorded by the U.S. government, according to internal Border Patrol data obtained by CBS News.
Toward the end of the initial video [at 37:40] Browning’s wife chimes in on the similarities she sees between the racist skinheads and the religious extremist movements.
Tawni: Y’know I work in the extreme — I mean there’s all levels of religious extremism and I work at the very far end of extremism — and some of the political groups that I’ve been blessed to work with. And I’ll tell ya, some of their rhetoric — they’re saying what I heard from skinheads except for taking it even further. Things like “Hey, Hitler had the right idea” except for he didn’t do it with the priesthood. Y’know God.
He certainly tried to.
Or I’ll see some of the same kind of nationalist tattoos. These are obviously ones that are rebellious within their own religion, but it’s crazy that their turn to other extremist symbolism like that
Matt always says if you put religion into anything, into any ideology, you’ve supercharged it, and that is a huge indication for violence.
Jesus didn’t teach hate, he taught love.
This is what’s happening out there in the desert. It’s not just one bad apple, it’s lots of them and they’re getting their rocks off murdering migrants.
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