Marimar Martinez was on her way to donate clothing last October when she noticed federal immigration agents in Brighton Park, a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Chicago. They were there as part of “Operation Midway Blitz,” which had terrorized the city with raids. When Martinez saw them, she and others started following them in their vehicles, honking and shouting “la migra,” warning others they were immigration agents. Moments later, her vehicle and that of a Border Patrol officer briefly made contact. He got out of his car and opened fire, shooting her five times.

The Department of Homeland Security called Martinez a “domestic terrorist” and laid out their version of events: The officer, Charles Exum, acted in self-defense after he was “rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. Martinez, who had supposedly appeared in an intelligence bulletin the week prior “for doxing agents” and posting threats online, was accused of threatening the officer with a “semi-automatic weapon.”

She was charged with assaulting, impeding and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer.

Martinez survived, unlike Renee Good, who died after she was shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis this week. Good “was harassing and impeding law enforcement operations” before trying to “run them over,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “It was an act of domestic terrorism,” she added. President Donald Trump called Good a “professional agitator” and claimed she “viciously ran over the ICE officer.”

Good’s death is part of a larger pattern in Trump’s second term: Federal agents shoot, then the government begins a campaign of lies and propaganda.

“They’re doing the exact same thing now because they have to, because how else do you justify shooting a stay-at-home mom with stuffed animals in her car?” Christopher Parente, Martinez’s attorney, told HuffPost, referring to Good’s killing.

“You’ve turned Montessori school teachers and stay-at-home moms into Timothy McVeigh in the minds of these agents, so of course their first reaction is to shoot.”

In response to a request for comment on Friday, McLaughlin repeated the same claims from months ago that have since been debunked, referring to Martinez as a “domestic terrorist” and saying she had “rammed federal agents” with her vehicle.

Immigration officers have opened fire 16 times over the past year, resulting in four deaths, according to The Trace. The government often tells similar stories about the incidents: A person stopped by officers tried to run them over, or injured them with their car, necessitating the use of deadly force.

When an ICE officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez after he tried to flee a traffic stop in his car in Chicago in September, DHS claimed that the officer suffered “severe back injuries, lacerations to hands and substantial tears in knee,” but body-camera footage later showed the officer said the sole cut he suffered was “nothing major.” Video evidence also disproved claims that officers faced life-threatening danger when they shot and wounded two men in separate incidents in California – Carlitos Ricardo Parias and Francisco Longoria. Carlos Jimenez, another ICE shooting victim in California, was charged with assaulting officers with his car, but has argued in court that he was driving around an ICE vehicle when officers shot him in the back.

The claims DHS made against Martinez, a 30-year-old teacher, were so thin they didn’t even make it into court. The charging documents noted only two cars following the Border Patrol officers and did not mention a gun at all. In court, Martinez’s lawyer argued that body-camera footage showed that Exum swerved to hit Martinez’s car and not the other way around. And Exum himself acknowledged that the vehicle contact “was side to side” rather than a “head-on” ramming maneuver. After the collision, he yelled “Do something, bitch,” before opening fire, Parente argued in court. And Martinez had not posted a threat against federal agents, contrary to McLaughlin’s statement, her lawyer said prosecutors told him.

Meanwhile, the government vehicle involved in the incident was driven to Maine, more than 1,000 miles from Chicago. DHS “ordered the Border Patrol in-house mechanic to buff out all of the alleged damage — in this case, a paint swap, essentially,” Parente alleged to HuffPost. “At which point, we were unable to have our expert look at it and show that it was actually the ICE agent’s car that side-swiped her car … We were in the middle of that destruction-of-evidence hearing when they dismissed the case.”

Federal prosecutors dropped the charges against Martinez — a spokesperson said at the time that the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York was “constantly evaluating new facts and information relating to cases and investigations arising out of Operation Midway Blitz” — and the judge dismissed the case.

Text messages from Exum also showed him bragging about the shooting. “I’m up for another round of ’fuck around and find out,” he wrote. And later: “I fired 5 rounds, and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”

“He was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” Parente said.

For her part, Martinez was left with bullet wounds on her forearm, tricep and elsewhere, as well as significant mental trauma, her attorney said.

Parente said he and his client are preparing to sue for damages. “She can’t hold a pen, she can’t close her hand. She’s got extreme physical pain, she’s obviously got mental anguish and pain, so we’re going to be seeking compensation for that.”

“The approach of our government right now is to literally implement the death penalty for minor traffic offenses on the spot, and that is extremely troubling, and it’s going to keep happening,” Parente said. “In the Martinez case, at best, it was a minor traffic accident. In what world do we live in where when you get into a minor traffic accident on the streets of your city, the driver jumps out and starts shooting at you?

When Parente saw what had happened in Minneapolis, and how the government was quick to smear Good, he wasn’t surprised.

“Normally, I would think the government wouldn’t be so brazen about misinformation,” Parente said. “But having lived through this, and looking at things that were put out in black-and-white by [McLaughlin], and knowing from the evidence that it’s completely wrong — I now question all of this that’s coming out.”