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The Preschool Worker Shot by Border Patrol

The New Yorker · USA · Documentary · 3 min · 19K views

Preschool assistant and U.S. citizen Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, then labeled a domestic terrorist; reporter Ruby Cramer pieces together what happened.

A survivor's voice at the center of a rigorous, urgent piece of reporting.

When Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen and preschool teaching assistant, noticed Border Patrol agents driving in a Chicago neighborhood, she followed them in her car. Minutes later, an agent shot her five times; then the

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