Lawyers For Chicago Woman Shot By Border Patrol Threaten Civil Rights Lawsuit Over Evidence They Say Shows DHS Lied About Shooting

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In October of last year, Marimar Martinez, a teaching assistant and U.S. citizen from Chicago, was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, and before the ink was even dry on the headlines reporting the story, the Department of Homeland Security was already dragging her name through the mud, claiming she was armed when the gun she has a license to carry never left her purse, and that she weaponized her vehicle against the agent, when she did not.

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