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DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different. (www.motherjones.com)

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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.

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[-] krigo666@lemmy.world 50 points 7 hours ago

The ICE thugs are the domestic terrorists.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago

Border patrol agent shot this woman. Not ICE. I'm not against abolishing ICE but don't let CBP get away with this.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago

Abolish DHS, CBP, ICE, all of it.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 18 points 4 hours ago

AKA, end the Patriot Act

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I wonder how many gen x voters you could pull with a "Make America great again ... like it was in the 1990s!" bit

[-] Sammy@infosec.pub 3 points 2 hours ago

That's how I lure people into Linux!

"Remember when you turned on your computer and you didn't immediately get ads? It's like the 90's!"

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

I am actually GenX

[-] j_elgato@leminal.space 1 points 2 hours ago

But... What if like a dozen guys show up to attack us with box cutters again?

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