Marimar Martinez goes to Washington, says she wants Trump officials to admit she's not a 'domestic terrorist'

Prosecutors Seemingly Agree to Release Body Camera Footage of Marimar Martinez Shooting

“My own government attempted to execute me.” That’s a snippet of the testimony given yesterday on Capitol Hill by Marimar Martinez, a Chicago teacher’s assistant who survived being shot five times in her car by a Border Patrol agent in October, only to be charged by federal prosecutors afterward with an attempt to “assault federal officers with a deadly weapon.” That prosecution subsequently fell apart under examination, causing an embarrassed D…

Marimar Martinez goes to Washington, says she wants Trump officials to admit she's not a 'domestic terrorist'

Martinez once appeared at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse as a criminal defendant. Now cleared of wrongdoing, the U.S. citizen told Democratic Senators and House members in Washington, D.C., about her shooting by Border Patrol and her failed prosecution.