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Celerity

(52,479 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 05:20 PM Tuesday

"Do Something B*tch": Damning Video Shows CBP Agent Shooting Protester



The Department of Homeland Security initially said the agent had shot the woman five times in self-defense.

https://newrepublic.com/post/201444/dhs-cbp-shoot-protester-immigration-video

https://archive.ph/27bKY



Is the Department of Homeland Security lying about the victim of yet another shooting by an immigration enforcement officer? Marimar Martinez, 30, was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago Saturday, after she and several other drivers trailed the officers’ car through the Chicago streets. In a press release, DHS claimed that when the officers exited their vehicle, Martinez tried to run them over, “forcing the officers to fire defensively.”

Martinez and 21-year old Anthony Ruiz were both charged with felony assault of a federal officer. But Christopher Parente, Martinez’s attorney, claimed during a federal court hearing Tuesday that body-camera footage disproved the government’s claim, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Parente said that he had repeatedly viewed the footage, and it appeared that the agent suddenly turned his wheel, indicating that Border Patrol had rammed into Martinez’s car and not the other way around. That officer was reportedly caught saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times within a matter of seconds. Parente also claimed the body camera footage captured another officer asking, “Hey, what happened?” The first officer pointed to his body camera and said, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Hennessy, arguing that the duo should not be released pending trial, told the judge that Martinez had been following the agents for 30 minutes before the shooting happened. He claimed that body camera footage showed the agents fretting that their cars were going to collide. “We’re getting boxed in! We gotta get out of here! She’s going to make contact!” one of the agents reportedly said, before the car was allegedly hit on both sides.

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"Do Something B*tch": Damning Video Shows CBP Agent Shooting Protester (Original Post) Celerity Tuesday OP
ICE Agents Provocateurs Jilly_in_VA Tuesday #1
+1 leftstreet Tuesday #3
Bunch of sociopaths and psychos getting paid to live out their fantasies of maiming, killing people. Attilatheblond Tuesday #2
You have to record everything kacekwl Tuesday #4

Jilly_in_VA

(13,258 posts)
1. ICE Agents Provocateurs
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 05:27 PM
Tuesday

Doesn't surprise me in the least. Does it surprise you? It shouldn't. If it does, you aren't old enough to remember the 1960s and 70s. If it doesn't, you'll remember "Tommy the Traveler" and a few others.

Attilatheblond

(7,454 posts)
2. Bunch of sociopaths and psychos getting paid to live out their fantasies of maiming, killing people.
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 05:46 PM
Tuesday

No way to run a nation of laws.

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