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Are the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and Customs and Border Protection destroying evidence? Well, we already know they're lying in court. We've seen that. We know they're blatantly defying court orders. We've seen that. And we know they're lying in their press releases. And they're doing this to gin up fake war zones to justify police action. But are they actually destroying evidence? Well, court documents filed this week that are largely going unreported seem to indicate that they are. And I'm going to show them to you. I'm Alison Gill, and this is the breakdown. All right. Is the government destroying exculpatory evidence that proves people they claim are assaulting federal agents are actually innocent and oftentimes they're the victims of assault perpetrated by the government? We've already got an established pattern. If you've been watching the breakdown, you'll recall a few weeks ago, this guy, this is Trump's Border Patrol lieutenant in Southern California. His name's Gregory Bevino, a guy, by the way, who has been reprimanded in his employee file for calling undocumented immigrants scum filth and trash. And this guy recently lied to a judge and a jury in the case of Ramos Brito when he said he witnessed Ramos Brito hit a federal agent. But video produced by the public defender in the case showed that the Fed actually hit Ramos Brito. It took a jury less than an hour to acquit. Also in the Kilmar Abrego case, this is the birthday of one of the people. Mr. Abrego was driving to a work site when he was pulled over in, in 2022. Now, it sure looks like the government altered this evidence by changing the one to a seven so that they could say Mr. Abrego was transporting a minor instead of a 21 year old, which would earn an automatic detention hearing. And that's not just me speculating, right? That's not just me being, like, ginning up a conspiracy theory. The magistrate judge in the case, Judge Barbara Holmes, R.A. wrote, quote, Additionally, defense counsel argued at the detention hearing that the seven in the written birth year of a 2007 appears to have been modified from a one that is not entirely without foundation as there does appear to be some overriding of the seven. And this week in the case of Sidney Reed, some evidence mysteriously grew legs and has gone walkies. As Rachel Maddow would say, Sidney Reed is the woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent. But Judge, box of wine. Jeannie Pirro took the case to three different grand juries and all three refused to return an indictment. So they took Ms. Reed to trial on the first ever federal misdemeanor assault case in D.C. video of the actual incident went missing. We know the officers had it because they watched it while Ms. Reed was detained in the backseat of their car, and she recorded that interaction. Now, the feds say the video didn't exist, but somehow it magically turned up the night before trial. And if that weren't enough, the only witness for the prosecution failed to produce text messages until the middle of her five hour testimony. And she's the only one who would testify on behalf of the prosecutors. Her text messages showed that she referred to Ms. Reed as a libtard and made fun of her injuries, calling it, oh, she got a boo boo. And enigmatically, one of the text messages was missing, just gone. And it took the jury less than two hours to find her not guilty. Now that brings me to the filing I saw this week in the case of Maramar Martinez. Ms. Martinez is the woman that was shot by federal agents in Chicago. Now, Department of Homeland security claimed that Ms. Martinez rammed an ICE vehicle with her car after boxing them in and then brandished a semiautomatic firearm, justifying the agent firing five shots at her. Then they claimed she drove herself to the hospital. She's fine. She drove herself to the hospital. But within an hour, the Chicago Fire Department put out a statement refuting one of the claims made by DHS, saying Ms. Martinez did not drive herself to the hospital. She was found by first responders after they were called and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Well, it didn't take long for the rest of their claims to fall apart. According to court documents, Ms. Martinez's lawyer says he has video evidence showing that it wasn't his client that rammed the ICE agent's vehicle. In fact, it was actually ICE that hit her vehicle. They pulled up, pointed a gun at her and said, do something, bitch, and then opened fire into her car. Also, Ms. Martinez did not wave around or brandish a semiautomatic firearm. She did have a pistol in her purse, and she has a concealed carry permit to have it. Second Amendment right. And in her purse is where it stayed. In fact, the indictment didn't even mention the gun. Funny how what DHS says in court filings differs from the lies they tell the public. Now, Ms. Martinez's lawyer has filed a motion to preserve evidence, urging the court to order the Department of Homeland Security to keep all their communications. Quote, it is Ms. Martinez's position that there are multiple factual inaccuracies in the DHS press release, which presumably originated with Border Patrol agents involved in this investigation. The credibility of DHS agents descriptions of the event at issue with will be the focal point of the defense at trial. Given the importance regarding the accuracy of the events surrounding Ms. Martinez's shooting and the pending criminal charge against her, counsel is requesting that the court enter a preservation order requiring DHS to preserve and maintain any and all records, emails, text messages, documents, notes and other materials related to the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Ms. Martinez and the gathering of information for the October 4, 2025 press release. So the crux of Ms. Martinez's defense is the lack of credibility at DHS. So if there are emails or text messages to the DHS Minister of truth, Trisha McLaughlin, about how to spin the details on the ground, that's extremely important exculpatory evidence. I'm sure DHS doesn't want another Bovino style court loss or another Sydney Reed on their hands. And Ms. Martinez's lawyer says in a footnote, and this is what stood out to me, that the evidence at issue could start disappearing, that DHS will potentially delete evidence. Quote, the AUSA stated they will continue to work on whether these notifications, the notifications bans be made. But based based on the importance of the request and the potential for critical information to be deleted by dhs, counsel is filing this motion to ensure that the information will be preserved. Now, why would a defense lawyer think that the government is going to delete evidence? Probably because they have a history of doing it in a blatant attempt to justify their violent police actions. But as AOC always reminds us, we have to continue to point out just how ridiculous they are. It is sinister, but it is also ridiculous. This week, ICE agents arrested a man dressed as a giraffe for trespassing even though he never left the public sidewalk. Watch. They came out to get him.