Overview
- Attorney Christopher Parente says prosecutors dismissed all charges against Marimar Martinez after the defense challenged the case.
- CNN aired surveillance footage showing a Border Patrol vehicle stop, Martinez steering left around it, and an agent firing five shots roughly two seconds later.
- In court, the involved agent testified that the encounter "wasn't a ramming," contradicting prior DHS claims.
- Parente says DHS public affairs chief Tricia McLaughlin continues to issue statements asserting agents were boxed in and rammed, despite the agent's testimony.
- Martinez and her attorney are taking her account to national media and to Congress to document the incident and press their challenge to DHS messaging.