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Swede

(37,986 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 07:06 PM Friday

Marimar 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

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Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by a border patrol agent, just had all charges dropped. $$$$$$$weet! (Original Post) Swede Friday OP
Now how about charges purr-rat beauty Friday #1
Yes. Charge the "officer" with attempted murder Easterncedar Friday #2
Ice is ruthless wendyb-NC Friday #3
K&R UTUSN Friday #4
... The ruling from US District Judge Georgia Alexakis came hours after prosecutors filed a motion struggle4progress Friday #5

Easterncedar

(5,310 posts)
2. Yes. Charge the "officer" with attempted murder
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 07:43 PM
Friday

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.

struggle4progress

(125,199 posts)
5. ... The ruling from US District Judge Georgia Alexakis came hours after prosecutors filed a motion
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 09:23 PM
Friday

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 Martinez’s 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

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