Post

Ruby Cramer
@rubycramer.bsky.social

The case of Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen and preschool teaching assistant who was shot by a federal agent in Chicago, offers the most complete picture yet of a D.H.S. shooting and its aftermath: www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

newyorker.comThe Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, wi...

1 repost1 like

Ruby Cramer
@rubycramer.bsky.social

Martinez, who is 31, stumbled into a truck stop on the South Side of Chicago after being shot five times by a federal immigration officer. About a mile away, the agent who shot her was standing on the side of the road with a group of other agents. “I’m good, bro,” he told one of them.

Ruby Cramer
@rubycramer.bsky.social

While Martinez was still being treated for her wounds, D.H.S. called her a domestic terrorist. She learned this two days later when she was released from a jail. The phrase made her think of “someone who builds bombs,” or “Osama bin Laden’s daughter.” “Literally the opposite of me,” she told me.

Ruby Cramer
@rubycramer.bsky.social

Later, she saw Kash Patel share a video an SUV aggressively ramming an agent’s car. He attributed the video to her case, but the SUV wasn’t hers. She saw Tricia McLaughlin attribute a quote to her, “Hey to all my gang let’s f— those mother f—-s up,” but she had never written it.

Ruby Cramer
@rubycramer.bsky.social

The process was disorienting. While recovering from injuries, she also fought to restore her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality. “I don’t anticipate this Administration ever retracting their statements. The truth does not matter,” a lawyer in another shooting case said.