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
Everytime there’s video it shows they lied. Every. Time.
Now imagine how much of that happened when they were free to kill people abroad. USA has been a lying terrorist state for a long 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…
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.
AKA, end the Patriot Act
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
There is no reason CBP should be the ones to do this, it was created by Bush after 9/11, we didn’t need it, it’s very existence was on the wish list of the fascists that used 9/11 as an excuse to do all of those things, the Patriot Act was submitted like a week or two after the event, it’s over a thousand pages each referencing other laws it amends, it was already written. It was the wish list, and CBP was on that wish list.
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.
What I keep seeing is that compliance gets you killed.
DHS might have gotten away
Well, their agents did get away with Assault With A Deadly Weapon (maybe even Attempted Murder) and Prejury, same as the ones who murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti are getting away with Murder.
Until the people involved stop getting away with it, they and their ilk will just keep on doing it.
Has anyone found the full videos? Allegedly there are 3 10-20 body cam footage videos as well as other documents. While theseblityle highlights are great, it sure would be nice to review in full ourselves.
I guarantee you the agent will wave reprimanded, not for conducting illegal terrorist acts against humans, but because he didn’t finish the job and kill her.
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.
If the USA returns to normal, shut down DHS.
Historical lesson from first hand experience. There is no return to normal. Political history has no undo button. The social and psychological changes that created and have been caused by this administration are permanent. The USA will never be the same.
Dealing with it in a “go back” POV is a losing strategy. It disconnects from reality. Instead go for a forward thinking approach, face the conflict and reality head on or you will be forever at the mercy of the dictator.
I partially disagree and two examples exist. Germany and Japan. However, both countries were destroyed and millions of people died because of a bunch fucking lunatics.
I wouldn’t say that neither Germany nor Japan had a normal that they went back to after WWII. Both countries are politically, demographically and culturally very different today from their pre war selves.
