A Chicago woman who says she was nearly killed by federal immigration agents last fall is now putting her story in front of Congress, arguing that what happened to her wasn’t a one-off tragedy, but a warning sign about how force is being used – and how little accountability exists when the government controls the evidence.
In a report for CBS Chicago, political reporter Chris Tye follows Marimar Martinez from a shooting scene in Brighton Park to a hearing room on Capitol Hill, where she told lawmakers she believes she was targeted simply because she is Latina and “fit a certain profile,” not because she posed the threat the government initially claimed.
Martinez’s case is already unusual on its facts alone, because she was shot five times on October 4, 2025, federal agents accused her of chasing them and ramming a vehicle during an immigration protest, and then – after that narrative shifted – the criminal case against her fizzled out and the charges were dropped, as Tye reports…