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Chicago police officers en route to help federal agents who were being surrounded and menaced by an angry mob of ICE protesters were seemingly ordered by their chief of patrol to stand down and not provide assistance, stunning dispatch audio and internal message reveal.
The group of agents was conducting a routine patrol in the city’s South Side on Saturday, “when they were attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
The agents were on patrol about 15 miles from the anti-ICE protests that had been simmering for several days outside the ICE processing center in the Chicago suburb of Broadview when the attack began.
Once they attempted to flee their trapped vehicle, a woman — later found to be toting a semi-automatic weapon — attempted to run the officers down, but was shot by police.
Local cops were initially readied to help the agents, but were ordered to stand down by the chief of patrol, according to shocking dispatch audio transmissions.
“Younger male Hispanic wearing all black … wanted for the hit and run, this guy fled from the scene,” a female dispatcher blares in response to a call for help by the surrounded ICE agents on audio shared by ExxAlerts.
“When the offending vehicle crashed, they ran the federal agent off the road, they fled on foot westbound.”
A male voice then comes on the radio channel, telling the dispatcher to direct officers to head to the scene and “stay put” a few blocks away and await further instruction, which she relays.
A few seconds later, the male voice is heard again, saying tersely: “Per the chief of patrol: clear everybody out, we’re not responding over there.”
The female dispatcher then tells officers on the way to the distress call, “per the chief of patrol, all units clear out from there, we’re not sending anybody out to that location.”
A male officer responds over the sound of sirens wailing in the background, saying, “We’re going to clear out as soon as we can, we’re like blocked in over here so we’re going to do the best we can to get out of here as soon as we can.”
An internal department memo sent to Chicago cops and obtained by Fox News confirms the shocking reversal.
“PLEASE CHIEF OF PATROL NO UNITS WILL RESPOND TO THIS AS RELATED FROM 04-Oc5-2025/12:34:44…CALLER IS 1 OF APPROX 30 ARMED PATROL AGENTS (ICE) WHO ARE BEING SURROUNDED BY A LARGE CROWD OF PEOPLE REQUESTING CPD,” the dispatch message read.
The Chicago Police Department disputed the claims, saying its officers were on the scene.
“To clarify misinformation currently circulating, CPD officers did in fact respond to the shooting scene involving federal authorities on Saturday to maintain public safety and traffic control,” the department said in a statement to Fox.
“The Chicago Police Department will always respond to anyone who is being attacked or is under the threat of physical harm,” the department added. “For incidents involving federal immigration enforcement, CPD supervisors will respond to the scene and determine the appropriate course of action in accordance with City law.”
Ten cars had surrounded the federal agents, Trump officials said.
“Today in Chicago, members of our brave law enforcement were attacked—rammed and boxed in by ten vehicles, including an attacker with a semi-automatic weapon,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X in response to the attack, pledging to send more resources to the crime-ravaged city.
The mob had gathered in the area near 39th Place and South Kedzie Avenue to protest the shooting of the armed woman and was met with tear gas deployed by federal agents, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The latest spate of violence in the Windy City comes after the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last month launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” an initiative to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets,” the department announced in an X post.
Protesters have increasingly used vehicles to attack ICE agents in the Chicago area in recent days, according to DHS, which said agents were targeted twice in such a manner in one day earlier this week.
No officers were injured in the mob attack, and the woman shot defensively by police reportedly drove herself to the hospital to be treated for her wounds.
More than a dozen protesters have been arrested near the ICE facility since Friday, according to Fox News.
The Chicago Police Department didn’t respond to a message from The Post seeking comment.
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