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sheshe2

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Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:22 PM Saturday

DHS Accused of 'Propaganda' for Shifting Story in Shooting

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing questions from lawmakers over the shooting of a U.S. citizen by Border Patrol agents in Chicago after a criminal complaint filed against the victim differed from the agency's initial description of events.

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat representing Connecticut, has written to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem asking for her to correct the public record and release all bodycam footage of the incident, claiming that "the evidence appears to contradict" the official account.

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Murphy accused the DHS and the Trump administration of “omitting facts in some cases, and in other cases, they are straight up lying in order to support their narrative that these Democratic-led cities and states are war zones.”

“This isn't information. It's propaganda,” he said in a video posted to social media.

Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen, was shot multiple times by a federal agent after the DHS alleged she was involved in ramming the car of Border Patrol agents in Chicago earlier this month. Her attorneys and the DHS—and even different bodies within the U.S. government—have conflicting depictions of who is at fault for the escalation prior to the shots fired.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dhs-accused-of-propaganda-for-shifting-story-in-shooting/ar-AA1OIYdk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=68f43d64909441b8914599db83d09746&ei=44

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Every word out of their collective mouths is a lie. sheshe2 Saturday #2

sheshe2

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2. Every word out of their collective mouths is a lie.
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 10:35 PM
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