Attorney Jeff Hampton, who runs the Hampton Law channel and calls himself “the people’s lawyer,” says a Chicago case involving federal agents should scare anyone who thinks “that could never happen to me.” In his video, Hampton claims U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot a local teacher five times during an encounter in a residential neighborhood, then the government turned around and labeled the wounded woman a “domestic terrorist.”
Hampton identifies the woman as Marimar Martinez, 30 years old, a Montessori teaching assistant, and a U.S. citizen. He says she was driving through her own neighborhood in Chicago when the incident happened, and he argues that what’s captured on the body camera video shows a level of aggression that started before the agents ever got out of their vehicle.
The clip Hampton uses at the beginning is chaotic, with voices shouting, talk of being “boxed in,” and commands like “Don’t you move.” Hampton’s immediate point is that this wasn’t a calm situation that suddenly turned dangerous. He claims it was dangerous from the start because the agents were already acting like they were heading into a fight…