When Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen and preschool teaching assistant, noticed Border Patrol agents driving in a Chicago neighborhood, she followed them in her car. Minutes later, an agent shot her five times; then the government called her a domestic terrorist. Over the past year, there have been at least 17 D.H.S. shootings, four of them fatal. After many of them, Trump officials moved quickly to justify the shooting and accuse the victim of attacking agents, all before an investigation had taken place.
In the aftermath of her shooting, Martinez has been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality. Body-camera footage, F.B.I. reports, interview summaries, dozens of text messages, and other evidence in the shooting “gives us the most complete picture yet of a D.H.S. shooting and its aftermath,” Ruby Cramer reports. Read the full story: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-immigration/shot-by-border-patrol-then-called-a-domestic-terrorist
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