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Federal prosecutors abruptly moved to dismiss the indictment against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz — two civilians accused of ramming a Customs and Border Protection vehicle during an O...
Federal immigration agents can sometimes be held civilly liable for shootings, but liability is constrained by complicated immunities, statutory pathways such as the Federal Tort Claims Act, and split...
Marimar Martinez was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after federal officials said she attempted to ram and then drive at agents during an October immigration operation in Chicago — an account that ...
A series of October 2025 reports describe multiple incidents in Chicago in which vehicles were used against federal immigration agents during enforcement operations, producing sharply conflicting acco...
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a federal Border Patrol agent during an immigration enforcement operation in Brighton Park, Chicago; federal prosecutors initially alleged she rammed and boxed ...
A single, simple claim—“ICE officer shoots innocent man”—cannot be validated across the available reports: incidents involving federal immigration officers in 2025 include shootings with contested cir...
Records shown in public hearings and reported by multiple outlets indicate a agent involved in the October 4, 2025, of sent group messages boasting “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes,” and similar ...
Court filings and related motions in the case show the initially framed the October traffic confrontation as an ambush on federal agents and supported charging ; federal prosecutors later moved to dis...
Federal prosecutors have told a court they will no longer oppose releasing the body‑worn camera footage that shows the moments leading up to the Oct. 4 traffic crash connected to the shooting, but the...
Body‑cam footage has been the central contested piece in the case: defense lawyers and Martinez’s attorney say the videos show an agent egging on violence — “Do something, b----” — and appearing to un...
by federal immigration agents during an October enforcement encounter in Brighton Park, Chicago . Multiple local outlets and public testimony report that ; prosecutors later dropped criminal charges a...
Reporting across major outlets says U.S. citizen Marimar Martinez was shot by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Chicago on October 4, 2025; multiple sources report she was shot five times ...
The statement “Now they're shooting US citizens!” conflates isolated, well-documented law-enforcement and federal-agent shootings with a claim of a broad or new pattern; multiple recent incidents conf...