Trump administration ordered the National Guard into Chicago: On Saturday morning, on the Southwest Side of Chicago in Brighton Park, two people driving cars reportedly attempted either to assault federal Border Patrol agents or to otherwise impede their work. The agents shot at one of the motorists—30-year-old Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen who was armed at the time—who drove herself to the hospital, was treated, and recovered.
A criminal complaint, as The New York Times summarizes it, asserts that "three Border Patrol agents who were conducting an operation in Oak Lawn, Ill., were followed by Ms. Martinez and [21-year-old Anthony Ian Santos] Ruiz. They pursued the agents' cars, running red lights and stop signs as they did so, and eventually crossed the city line into Chicago." The two motorists then allegedly "drove into one of the federal agents' cars, causing the agent to lose control of the vehicle….Once the agents' car had stopped and the agents had stepped out of it, Ms. Martinez drove her car directly at one of the agents, the complaint said, prompting him to fire five shots at her." The Department of Homeland Security claims that Martinez was "armed with a semiautomatic weapon," which has not been corroborated elsewhere.
