Federal agents shot a woman five times in a South Side Chicago neighborhood and they’re still hiding the goddamn video. The Department of Homeland Security wants us to swallow their story—that Border Patrol agents were “ambushed by domestic terrorists” who rammed their SUV in a heroic showdown straight out of some fascist training reel. But the court documents don’t say that. The complaint says Marimar Martinez followed a Border Patrol vehicle. That’s it. No mention of gunfire aimed at agents, no claim she even reached for a weapon. DHS plastered her name across headlines as a terrorist before she was even out of surgery.
Her attorney, Christopher Parente, has seen the body-cam footage. He says it shows something completely different. He says the feds turned into her car. He says the agent pointed his rifle, finger on the trigger, and sneered “Do something, bitch.” Then he opened fire. Five bullets tore through a U.S. citizen who was warning her neighbors that immigration agents were prowling their block. That’s not self-defense. That’s state violence. And now the government that pulled the trigger wants to control the narrative.
They already got caught lying. They said it happened in Broadview. It didn’t. They said she drove herself to the hospital. She didn’t. They said she was armed. Her gun never left her purse. Every time the story falls apart, DHS rewrites it and calls the new version “official.” They’re stonewalling, hiding the video behind the excuse of an “ongoing investigation,” hoping the public moves on before anyone sees the truth frame by frame.
No more secrecy. No more anonymous spokespeople feeding sanitized quotes to reporters. Three cameras were rolling that day. The footage exists. Martinez’s lawyer has seen it. The judge can see it. The rest of us are being told to take the government’s word for it—after decades of watching that same government bury evidence whenever it’s the one pulling the trigger. Enough. Release the video. Let the world see what those agents did. If they were justified, prove it. If they weren’t, show us what justice looks like when the badge is the weapon.
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