Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by a border patrol agent, just had all charges dropped. $$$$$$$weet!

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5. ... The ruling from US District Judge Georgia Alexakis came hours after prosecutors filed a motion

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