>>1459111 (cont)
Fitzpatrick called that operation the “largest ever law enforcement surge” within the Northern District of Illinois.

“This continuous review process applies to all matters — whether charged or under investigation,” he said in a statement. “It helps ensure that the interests of justice are served in each and every case, and that those cases that are charged are appropriately adjudicated through our federal court system.”

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday morning.

Prosecutors had alleged Martinez and Ruiz were among a civilian group that was tracking a Border Patrol vehicle on Oct. 4 when she used her car to ram into the agents’ vehicle.

Prosecutors claimed the vehicles driven by Martinez and Ruiz boxed in the agents’ vehicle at which point Border Patrol agent Charles Exum exited the car, and fired five shots from his service weapon at Martinez.

None of the agents were injured, according to a statement posted on social media by a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman at the time. The department referred to Martinez and Ruiz as “domestic terrorists” and claimed Martinez was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, though she was never charged with any weapons violations.

Martinez, who was struck several times, drove to a repair shop about a mile away, according to federal prosecutors. Martinez was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she received treatment for gunshot wounds, according to a statement from federal prosecutors.

>>1459112 (Cont)
Ruiz was arrested at a gas station about a half block away, according to a statement from federal prosecutors.

Martinez pleaded not guilty and her attorneys had pushed for a speedy trial. Martinez’s attorney Christopher Parente previously said in court that body-camera footage from the incident showed an agent carrying an assault rifle and saying “Do something b--ch” before the shooting, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Following the hearing Thursday, her attorney Christopher Parente thanked the U.S. Attorney’s Office for dismissing the charges, saying they saw the case the way he saw it, “which is that these agents were lying.”

“It was a bad shoot,” Parente said, adding that Exum would eventually “pay” for the shots he fired at Martinez. “They know it, it was gonna come out eventually.”

Text messages revealed in court as part of the case showed Exum had bragged to others, sending out a story about the shooting with the message “Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes.”

He later added “Cool. I’m up for another round of ‘f--k around and find out’” and then “Sweet. My 15 mins of fame. Lmao.”

Martinez said she has been feeling “fine” since the shooting, adding that she wanted to go home and sleep now that the case is over with.

“Put that in your books Exum,” Martinez said.

OTHER SOURCES:
>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chicago-woman-shot-border-patrol-marimar-martinez-charges-dismissed-rcna244979
>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/charges-dropped-chicago-woman-shot-border-patrol-agent
>https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops-charges-2-people-accused-ramming-vehicles/story?id=127714651

>>1459111
This shit should be getting more attention. A federal agent rammed a woman's car, shot her 5 times, got HER arrested for being a victim, then fucking bragged about it like a middle school bully to his coworkers. This is fucking insanity; someone with that attitude should've never even made it to deployment, let alone STILL HAVE HIS JOB NOW.

>>1459120
It looked very much like her vehicle was ramming the ICE SUV. Did that not happen?

>>1459125
If it's the incident I think it is (isn't it sad that there's more than zero of these?), they basically swerved directly in front of her and then got hit.

Officer involved should be in prison. Actually they should have been killed at the scene by someone defending the innocent victim, but I'll settle for prison.

>>1459131
... Aaaannnnd then she kept ramming them?

>>1459138
If that actually happened then they wouldn't be dismissing charges against her.

>>1459125
Apparently not considering they're dropping all charges. It seems more likely they were driving in front of her.

>>1459125
Yeah so looking at the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgTnMfn4ak) it looks like they break-checked her AFTER they side-swiped her car as was alleged in court.

It also doesn't help their case they absolutely fucked up the evidence here; they let the fed take his car, go home, get it cleaned and partially repaired, and only then did they realize "oh shoot we should've documented all that damage before we brought charges". So combined with (currently only released to the court) bodycam that apparently shows them starting the confrontation that led to the video above, the guy being an arrogant blowhard in all his texts, AND them getting caught lying about her taking out her gun... yeah they had to bail.

>>1459125
They are dismissing the case because the testimony of the officers was inconsistent with the camera footage.

Democrats will crow about this as a win, irrespective of the many car-rammings that are now commonplace against ICE agents.

>>1459147
>They are dismissing the case because the testimony of the officers was inconsistent with the camera footage.
By which you mean they shot a woman and lied about her drawing a weapon. Yeah, I'll crow about this horseshit being tossed.

>irrespective of the many car-rammings
Are you implying those people are all copycats and it's the fault of this chick for getting brakechecked by the feds?

Anyway, if ICE agents don't want to get in traffic accidents, they can quit. That shit's one of the top killers of law enforcement.

>>1459147
>>1459175
Excuse me "active" law enforcement. Retired law enforcement is suicide.

>>1459147
Could you show us any of these car rammings that are "commonplace"? It should be easy to cite 5-10 if they're commonplace

The testimony isn't just "inconsistent" with the camera footage, it's an outright fabrication. We need to be more like the ancient romans. In Rome, perjury was a crime punishable by death. I think we'd see a lot less shit like this if there were real consequences to lying in court.

>>1459185
We can't have a society without cops.

>>1459187
We can't have a society with cops who lie about incidents to justify shooting civilians.

>>1459138
>... Aaaannnnd then she kept ramming them?
No

She

Did

Not

>>1459193
>cops who lie about incidents to justify shooting civilians.
That's a bit redundant.

>>1459187
What does this have to do with what I said? Where did I say we don't need cops?

Do you mean that execution as punishment for perjury would leave us with no cops left? If so, maybe police reform would be a welcome consequence of such a law.

>>1459199
Judge Dredd future incoming

>>1459187
We can have a society where cops are actually held to the higher standard they claim they're held to.

>>1459257
They are held to a very high standard. Go hang out in your local criminal court and find a judge doing probable cause hearings. Most cases get thrown out.

>>1459195
Looked like it in the video.

>>1459257
Your higher standard is "don't punish minorities".

>>1459261
Can you post the video you're referring to? I haven't seen it

>>1459262
Who are you talking to?
Do your caretakers know you're posting nonsense on the internet?

>>1459264
You, retard.
Democrats lie about police activity because they think the criminal justice system is systemically racist, so they try to convince dogbrained retards that law enforcement needs to be reformed. Or they use that same excuse to intimidate law enforcement into not doing their jobs.

>>1459111
Everything worked out!

>>1459269
How have you not killed yourself yet, miserable shill

>>1459271
Looks like you got so mad that you failed to pretend to be another anon (again)
Do a flip idiot.

>>1459272
Why would I be upset, you're the one with a humiliating job and a life that is somehow less than worthless

>>1459269
Who are you talking to?
Do your caretakers know you're posting nonsense on the internet?

>>1459269
Maybe Trump's DOJ should stop half-assing court cases and getting them thrown out if they're so obviously in the right.

>>1459275
but then how are they going to con gullible morons into believing their cases are real if they're thrown out on actual merits?
Better to force the judge to reject it for complicated errors that MAGA is too retarded to understand so you can trick them into believing its an attack on Trump

>>1459258
And what happens to the police who lie on official paperwork and/or under oath?
They get put on the naughty list so they don't have to go to court anymore and another officer is allowed to enter "my colleague says this happened" as equally valid evidence?

>>1459146
So the timeline is this.
>The boarder gestapo side swipe an innocent woman's car.
>Then the boarder gestapo go in front of her and break check to cause anther accident
>Boarder gestapo then proceed to mag dump and nearly kill the woman
>And then arrest her under false pretenses she was a threat.
>Boarder Gestapo then leans up the damage and blood and proceeds to brag about about what he did on social media
Amazing how not only will there be no charges brought against the crazed gun man, but they intentionally are keeping his name hidden so he won't even be reprimanded and can't be sued.
Insanity how the trump regime has essentially hired people with serial killer mindsets and gave them legal immunity.

>>1459199
>Where did I say we don't need cops?
Police perjury is so common, it has its own fucking name, testilying. I was making a joke. If you killed everyone that perjured themselves, we'd have a lot less cops overnight.

>>1459232
>Judge Dredd future incoming
The death penalty doesn't exist in Judge Dredd.