Activism, Uncensored: A Return to Chicago, Where Protests Erupt After a Shooting
As Racket continues documenting unrest in the region, conflicting stories surface over what led a federal agent to open fire on Marimar Martinez.
A note from Managing Editor Greg Collard:
For the third week in a row, Ford Fischer of News2Share films clashes between activists and law enforcement officers in the Chicago area. Ford has focused on activism at the ICE detention facility in suburban Broadview, but this past weekend he also visited the Brighton Park neighborhood in southwest Chicago. Tensions erupted there after a Customs and Border Patrol agent shot a woman who allegedly struck a patrol vehicle with her car as part of a convoy attempting to trap officers.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem also said the woman, Marimar Martinez, had a handgun, but the criminal complaint below does not mention the gun. Nor does it mention a separate allegation made by Tricia McClaughlin, an assistant secretary of Homeland Security:
The armed woman was named in a @CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online ‘Hey to all my gang let’s fuck those mother fuckers up, don’t let them take anyone.’
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, an assistant U.S. attorney said in court Monday that the loaded gun was on the passenger side of the vehicle, but it was never brandished. Martinez’s attorney, Christopher Parente, says she has a concealed-carry permit for the gun.
Parente also told a federal judge that videos show an officer turning into Martinez’s vehicle and yelling, “Do something, bitch” before exiting his vehicle and shooting her.
The judge released Martinez and another man facing charges in the incident, in part because of their lack of criminal history and family ties in the area.
These are not protests, these are riots. Who gave the stand down order for Chicago police to abandon the federal agents? Why was this violent insurrectionist terrorist released in a jurisdiction with strict gun control laws? Leftist mayors, governors, and judges are going to get people killed if they keep going down the path of anarcho-tyranny.
El Gato Malo was just talking about this in a substack piece yesterday - these are quotes from his essay:
"it’s all the simple, well worn playbook of “force your enemy into an impossible choice and then make the story about how they react.”
"they call it “putting your target in a decision dilemma.”
"the same people who flooded the country with illegal intruders to shift the census, electoral college, congressional seat counts, and to taint voter rolls (often using tax dollars to do it) always knew that the day might come when people got fed up and sought to reverse this.
they also know how incredibly difficult this would be, the draconian actions it would require, and how bad this could be made to look.
they were already prebunking this issue before the election. “if the bad guys win, they will round you up and put you in boxcars! it will be fascism! genocide! they will not follow the law!”
lost in this and absent from the barrage of talking points is the lawlessness, manipulation, and outright aggression ingrained in flooding communities with these groups and then leaving them protected by law and process but unbound by restrictions or standards.
the manner in which they were brought in was wildly illegal, and now the selfsame perps demand law be applied.
the whole point is to be so provocative and violent that only violence can serve to resist or constrain it, then they call you violent.
what just happened in Chicago is a prime example."
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-horns-of-the-ice-dilemma