Overview
- Attorney Christopher Parente filed a motion Monday to modify a protective order so body-worn camera footage, photos, communications and other materials from the Oct. 4, 2025 shooting can be made public, with a hearing set for Thursday before Judge Georgia Alexakis.
- Prosecutors dropped the criminal case against Marimar Martinez in November and the judge dismissed it with prejudice, yet her attorney says government statements continue to portray her as a 'domestic terrorist.'
- DHS officials recently reiterated that agents were 'ambushed by domestic terrorists' who rammed vehicles, while Parente points to surveillance video he provided to 60 Minutes that he says contradicts that account.
- Court testimony and records show Agent Charles Exum sent texts bragging about the shooting, revelations that preceded the prosecution's move to dismiss the charges.
- Court filings note Martinez’s car is part of a separate investigation handled by the U.S. attorney’s office in South Bend, and a prior media effort to unseal the evidence was denied and is on appeal.