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
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.