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Weekend Listen: 'He wasn't resisting' - WA man mauled by immigration enforcement canine

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

News, Daily News

4.7 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re bringing you the best from another KUOW show, Soundside. A disturbing image shared by Senator Patty Murray has been reverberating across the internet… It shows a man’s torso, his right side covered in wounds - lacerations, scratch marks, bite marks - after he was mauled by an immigration agent’s canine. Blood splatters the sheets below him. The man, Wilmer Toledo-Martinez of Vancouver, Washington, was detained outside his home last month by federal agents. Senator Murray and Wilmer’s family are calling for his release – and calling out the violent treatment he received at the hands of immigration officers. Soundside’s Libby Denkmann spoke to Toledo-Martinez’s attorney, Olia Catala.

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now. Today we're bringing you the best from another KUOW show, Soundside.

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Just a heads up before we go on.

0:56.8

Today's episode has descriptions of violence and injury.

1:01.4

A disturbing image shared by Washington, Senator Patty Murray, has been reverberating across the internet.

1:07.4

It shows a man's torso, his right side covered in wounds, scratch marks,

1:13.5

laceration, bite marks after he was mauled by an immigration agent's canine.

1:19.4

The man Wilbur Toledo Martinez of Vancouver, Washington was detained outside his home last month

1:25.4

by federal agents. Senator Murray and Wilmer's family are calling for his release and calling out the violent

1:32.1

treatment he received at the hands of immigration officers.

1:35.5

Here's SoundSides Libby Dankman in conversation with Toledo Martinez's attorney, Olia Katala.

1:43.0

Olia, thanks for being here.

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Hello, it's a pleasure.

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