Chicago woman shot by US border patrol indicted by federal grand jury | Chicago

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Chicago woman shot by US border patrol indicted by federal grand jury | Chicago

A Chicago woman shot multiple times by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents was recently indicted by a grand jury on federal charges of impeding a federal officer with a deadly weapon.

Prosecutors allege Marimar Martinez, 30, rammed the vehicle of federal agents with her own before they shot her, which they say was an act of self-defense. They also claim Martinez was armed.

Martinez’s lawyer, Christopher Parente, said footage from one of the agent’s body-worn cameras contradicted that account, and Martinez will plead not guilty at an arraignment scheduled in the coming days.

According to Parente, that camera footage captured one of the officers saying, “Do something, bitch,” before opening fire.

The footage has not been made public.

Another person, 21-year-old Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, was also indicted on Thursday in the same case.

Federal agents allege that Martinez was involved in a vehicle chase before ramming a CBP vehicle. Authorities claim that a government vehicle carrying three CBP agents was followed and boxed in by a “convoy of civilian vehicles”, including cars driven by Martinez and Santos.

The shooting occurred as immigration agents, at the behest of the second Trump administration, have been scouring Chicago – Illinois’s largest city – for people to deport.

The ramped-up immigration enforcement in Chicago has been met with protests.

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