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>> New evidence is being released today in the shooting of a Chicago woman Marty.

Marty Martinez.

She was shot 5 times by a Border Patrol agent in Brighton Park back in October after agent said she, quote, ambushed them and rammed them with her car.

Martinez was charged with assaulting the agents, but those charges were dropped and she's now pursuing legal action of her own.

Here's one of her attorneys earlier today.

>> I think ICE was hoping that they would get.

>> Some individual so that they could, you know, support some some of their false claims.

But they picked the wrong victim in this case to mess with.

>> Our Matt Masterson joins us now with more.

Matt, remind us about the federal claims that agents and the Department of Homeland Security we're leveling against Yeah.

Basically from the start, Homeland Security has labeled Martinez of 30 year-old Montessori school teacher as a domestic terrorist who ambushed these agents in Brighton Park.

She >> rammed them with her vehicle after she was pursuing them for 15 minutes.

The agents themselves say that they were boxed in by Martinez and other agents.

They use that justification for the shooting that when when the agents got out and did fired these shots at her, this all, despite the fact that federal prosecutors who did charge her with assaulting agents, drop these charges with prejudice just weeks later mean, these charges can never be refiled in federal court.

>> So like we said, those charges, as you just said, they were dropped.

Many Martinez is pushing to get the evidence in her case released.

What have we learned today from that evidence?

Yeah.

So today we saw some body camera footage from inside the vehicle that the agents were driving.

that showed that the agents did not appear to be rammed by Martinez.

Instead, the driver of that vehicle appeared to swerve to his left into the path of Martinez.

>> the agent who fired the shots, Charles also claim that he had fired all 5 shots through the windshield of Martinez's car, claiming that she was driving street.

Adam, some of the evidence released today, though, showed that appeared that a bullet was fired through a passenger window and then another bullet came from the rear of us passenger seat into the front coming from the back of the vehicle, which contradicted his claims as well and surveillance footage from nearby businesses appear to show that that the agents were not boxed and that they claim that there are these vehicles in front of them, preventing them from moving further, which is why they got out and started firing.

But the surveillance footage showed that there were no vehicles in front of in front of them and that they were able to drive forward if they needed to send text messages were also released today.

What we learned Yeah, these attacks were sent to or from.

>> Jackson who fired the shots and the pure show broad support from his fellow agents for the shooting.

One agent texted him calling him a legend among his fellow colleagues and saying that appears to be on him.

Next time you saw him.

>> He also got this wide support from his superiors, Border Patrol Chief.

Craig, if you know, basically offered him a promotion within hours of this saying he wanted to extend him past his retirement date.

He said in another text that he had received support from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and meet a possible reference to Donald Trump supporting him as well on this.

There was previous tax that came out as well from eczema, which he also bragged about the shooting.

He said that he had fired 5 sept 5 shots but caused 7 wounds Martinez calling heat use firearms instructor and basically bragging about his accuracy with us.

>> Matt was next in this case.

So today Martinez's attorneys filed a federal tort claim.

This is basically the first step in filing the filing a federal suit claiming personal injury from a federal agent.

>> But they need to wait several months before they're able to get a response from DHS to move forward with civil suit, which is what they intend to do, what they want to file that later this year.

And they said they plan to to force a trial in that case as early as October later this They were to come on this case.

Of course.

Matt