Newly released body camera footage further undermines the Trump administration’s efforts to falsely portray Marimar Martinez—who was shot multiple times by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum in October—as a “domestic terrorist.” Federal prosecutors shared three videos on Tuesday evening after a federal judge ruled last week that the footage and other evidence could be made public.
The videos released on Tuesday shed further light on why prosecutors dropped charges against Martinez rather than try to bring a case against her to trial.
The newly released evidence is also part of a pattern. It is one of many examples of DHS immigration agents lying and providing false information to justify shootings and other uses of excessive force against US citizens and immigrants. These claims have collapsed again and again once DHS is forced to defend them in court.
Martinez’s case follows this pattern. DHS initially claimed their force was justified because Border Patrol agents “were ambushed by domestic terrorists that rammed federal agents with their vehicles.” Once in court, evidence showed something much different. Like in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, DHS might have gotten away with its false claims about Martinez were it not for the video evidence that contradicted its account.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QDN2LZ7WcDM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LTnOPKm9WR8&pp=0gcJCUABo7VqN5tD
If the USA returns to normal, shut down DHS.
THIS IS WHAT DHS WAS DESIGNED TO BE.
If you are in political conversations with people who are perhaps not as engaged as the people on this platform seem to be, ask them why a totally redundant agency with jurisdiction and authority that ALREADY EXISTED via FBI, CBP, Coast Guard, etc…Why was this created?
It was created to put down dissent. Not just violent dissent. Soon they will be kicking down the doors of protest and labor organizers as well as transparency activists and journalists. This bullshit with tepid, milquetoast, lame ass Don Lemon is just the beginning.
Soon they will be treating ALL dissent exactly the same way Russia does. That’s what the fucking camps are for.
Everytime there’s video it shows they lied. Every. Time.
Well I’m sure someone with a spine will be along very soon to bring the orange kiddie fiddler and the other goons to justice. Any minute now…
What I keep seeing is that compliance gets you killed.
The newly released evidence is also part of a pattern. It is one of many examples of DHS immigration agents lying and providing false information to justify shootings and other uses of excessive force against US citizens and immigrants. These claims have collapsed again and again once DHS is forced to defend them in court.
They are also part of another very disturbing pattern - in this case, Pretti, and Good’s there was a) evidence that the ICE/CBP agents recognized their victims as legal observers, b) evidence before and after the fact that the ICE/CBP agents were pissed off at these legal observers for doing that legally protected thing, c) no evidence that the agents had any reason to fear for their lives
They got pissed at people questioning their authority and killed (or attempted to kill) them for it. That behavior absolutely must be publicly condemned and punished and an example needs to be made of all the agents who demonstrated it. We are not a free country in any meaningful sense until that happens.
Its why they are arresting so many people for videoing them. They are trying to scare people into ignoring their crimes.
The ICE thugs are the domestic terrorists.
Border patrol agent shot this woman. Not ICE. I’m not against abolishing ICE but don’t let CBP get away with this.
Abolish DHS, CBP, ICE, all of it.
CBP does have legit purposes. I do enjoy having fentanyl laced imposter medicine blocked as much as possible from entering the country. I also enjoy not having invasive pests blocked from entering the country.k
AKA, end the Patriot Act
I wonder how many gen x voters you could pull with a “Make America great again … like it was in the 1990s!” bit
I am actually GenX
Sue and demand Kristi Noem’s firing for misconduct for intentionally lying about this case.
Like in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, DHS might have gotten away with its false claims about Martinez were it not for the video evidence that contradicted its account.
Unless they are suffering (capital) punishment, they continue to get away with it.
If there are no consequences for perjury and obstruction, courts need to expect this behavior. They’re also systematically ignoring federal court orders. This is a hostile regime and judges need to start treating it as such.
