About two weeks ago, a Border Patrol Agent shot a U.S. citizen named Marimar Martinez. Shortly afterward, the Department of Homeland Security claimed the woman had endangered their agents. That seems to be a load of bull manure.
Greg Sargent explains:
[J]ust after the shooting, DHS put out a statement claiming that the agents in question had been “boxed in by 10 cars” and that Martinez’s vehicle “rammed” theirs. The statement also suggests she threatened the agents with a “semi-automatic weapon.” All this “forced” an agent to shoot Martinez, who then “drove herself to the hospital.” DHS added that she’d previously doxed agents online. In short, the shooting was wholly justified: The victim was the one doing the terrorizing—of law enforcement.
Yet these claims are undermined by the c