Chicago Police Ordered To Ignore Border Patrol Agents’ Plea For Help while surrounded by angry mob of protesters
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.

Chicago cops were told over police radio to stand down instead of responding to a call for help by federal agents besieged by anti-ICE protesters.

The agents were doing routine patrols in the city’s South Side when they were surrounded by a mob of vehicles and rammed.
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.
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.”
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.
“Per the chief of patrol, all units clear out from there, we’re not sending anybody out to that location,” a dispatcher said, according to stunning audio recordings.
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