the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
February 16, 2026
Miramar Martinez was shot five times last October by Charles Exum, a Border Patrol agent, in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. Martinez survived her wounds and for the last month has been speaking out about her case. Exum and fellow agents were part of Trump’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” which terrorized immigrants for months. At the time, agents claimed that Martinez boxed their car in, then rammed them with her own car.
Martinez was charged with assault and impeding, but those charges were quickly dropped. Martinez’s lawyer then worked to get the government’s evidence in the case released—he and Martinez argued in court and before Congress that the evidence had new relevance, in the wake of the ICE shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Martinez also wants to clear her name, as the Trump administration has continued to call her a “domestic terrorist,” even after dropping the charges against her.
The evidence—video footage from inside the agents’ vehicle—shows that what they claimed was a pack of lies. The video shows Exum announcing he is going to hit her car, saying “we’re going to make contact,” then swerving to hit it. The agents claimed in statements to be “boxed in” by three other cars in front of them, and submitted a drawing to support their statement. The video does not show any cars ahead of the agents. After Exum swerves into Martinez, agents in the car cry out, “we’ve been struck, we’ve been struck!”
Exum claimed he shot through Martinez’s front windshield, because she was trying to run him down. Photos of Martinez’s vehicle show the shots were fired through her passenger side window and the rear of her car—because she was trying to get away.
Exum later texted friends, bragging about the shooting. Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino sent a congratulatory email to Exum. Cops have been known to lie, particularly when it comes to shootings—in the case of these ICE shootings, agents’ lies have come fast and furious.