#body-cam-footage

#body-cam-footage

Marimar Martinez, a Chicago teacher's assistant who survived being shot five times in her car by a Border Patrol agent in October, only to be charged by federal prosecutors afterward with an attempt to "assault federal officers with a deadly weapon." That prosecution subsequently fell apart under examination, causing an embarrassed DHS to drop the case against Martinez, even as she went on the offensive, campaigning to get the court to allow body camera footage of the shooting to be released to the public.

Body-cam footage from Officer Alexander Campos - one of the two officers who fired at Emile - shows the cop arriving at the intersection of E. 52nd St. and Church Ave. around 1 a.m. and getting out of a marked police car. Campos' fellow officers, Sgt. Kyle Sforza and Officer Brian Mejia-Morel, who were already on the scene, confronted Emile and chased him. Campos was holding a gun as Emile fled.