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... U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat representing Connecticut, has written to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem asking for her to correct the public record and release all bodycam footage of the incident, claiming that "the evidence appears to contradict" the official account.
"As you know, when the government misrepresents or lies about events involving the safety and wellbeing of federal law enforcement, it erodes public trust, making their jobs much harder," he said in the letter. ...
Just hours after Martinez was shot, the DHS released a statement from Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin that said that federal agents were "rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars." The statement also alleged that one of the people who "boxed" in the agents, who it later identified as Martinez, was armed with a "semi-automatic weapon." After the collision of cars, agents exited the vehicle and fired five times at Martinez"shots that McLaughlin said were "defensive" shots.
"Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fired defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds," the statement released on Oct. 4 said. The statement also says that Martinez had already been named in a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) intelligence bulletin for "doxing" ICE agents on the internet
Murphy noted, however, that the criminal complaint filed against Martinez the next day tells a different story.
The complaint, written by FBI Special Agent Caitlin Malone, said that only two cars rammed federal agent vehicles, rather than the overwhelming 10. There is no mention of her brandishing a weapon, as the original DHS statement implied, nor any firearms at all on Martinez. ...
