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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarimar Martinez, shot 5 times by a border patrol agent, just had all charges dropped. $$$$$$$weet!
U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis dismissed the charges against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz after the Department of Justice abruptly requested her to do so.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops-charges-2-people-accused-ramming-vehicles/story?id=127714651
purr-rat beauty
(868 posts)For the fucking trump thus
Vehicular assault
Attempted murder
For starters
Easterncedar
(5,310 posts)And everything else: assault with a deadly weapon, abuse of power, tampering with evidence - everything. Jail time for him, lots of (dammit our taxpayer) money for her.
wendyb-NC
(4,547 posts)The trauma she must have gone through in that incident is horrific.
struggle4progress
(125,199 posts)to dismiss the charges in a striking reversal by the US government, court documents show.
Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old American citizen, and her co-defendant, Anthony Ruiz who was driving a different vehicle had entered not guilty pleas to a federal charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers ...
Martinez had been accused of closely pursuing Customs and Border Protection agent Charles Exum and hitting his car on October 4. But Martinezs defense attorney, Christopher Parente, alleged the opposite, saying it was actually the agent who sideswiped Martinez. Parente said, This case was going to be a winner at trial regardless.
These agents were lying about what happened, he added following the dismissal. Miss Martinez never rammed anybody. These agents hit Miss Martinez. These agents jumped out and shot Miss Martinez, a US citizen whose only crime was warning her fellow community members that ICE was in the neighborhood ...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/us/chicago-marimar-martinez-shooting-charges