A trove of evidence was released Tuesday in the controversial shooting of Marimar Martinez by a Border Patrol agent at the height of Operation Midway Blitz last October, including a body-worn camer…
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“It’s time to get aggressive and get the (expletive) out,” one agent says on a body-cam video as horns blare on Kedzie Avenue in Brighton Park, where Martinez had been following the agents through the neighborhood.
Seconds later, the driver, Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, appears to jerk the steering wheel to the left, in the direction of Martinez’s vehicle alongside them. The video jolts, apparently capturing the collision between the agents’ Chevrolet Tahoe and Martinez’s car.
“Be advised we have been struck!” one of the agents in the vehicle yells to a dispatcher. Exum then gets out of the vehicle and moves off-camera and five rapid-succession gunshots are heard.
“We have shots fired, shots fired, we need backup,” an agent said into a radio.
“We’re on south Kuh-DEE-zee, near highway 55,” the agent says, butchering the street name.