cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6362049
“I think there’s a danger to the community, but I don’t think it’s Ms. Martinez,” said an attorney for Marimar Martinez, who was shot several times by a Border Patrol agent in Brighton Park, Chicago.
An account given in court on Monday by the attorney of a woman who was shot several times by a Border Patrol agent “really makes it sounds like” the agent “tried to murder an anti-ICE protester in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him,” said one researcher, referring to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, whose agents have descended on the Chicago area in recent weeks and have violently raided homes and assaulted community members there.
Christopher Parente, an attorney for Marimar Martinez, spoke at a hearing Monday at a federal courthouse two days after federal officers accused her of driving toward them in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago.
Parente said body camera footage called the account of federal prosecutors and Border Patrol into question, as it showed a Border Patrol agent saying to Martinez, “Do something, bitch” before pulling over and shooting her at least five times.
“We need a zero tolerance policy for lying by law enforcement,” said Jonathan Cohn, political director of Progressive Mass.