Chicago police officers responding to assist federal agents who were surrounded by a crowd of protesters near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility were allegedly instructed to stand down, according to dispatch audio recordings and internal messages reviewed by reporters.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security said the incident occurred Saturday on the city\u2019s South Side, where a group of federal agents conducting a routine patrol \u201cwere attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.\u201d<\/p>\n
The agents were patrolling about 15 miles from ongoing anti-ICE demonstrations outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview, a Chicago suburb, when the attack began.<\/p>\n
According to federal officials, after agents attempted to escape their vehicle, a woman armed with a semi-automatic weapon allegedly tried to drive into them. She was shot by officers and later taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Local police officers were initially preparing to assist the agents but were reportedly instructed to stand down by the department\u2019s chief of patrol, according to the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cYounger male Hispanic wearing all black \u2026 wanted for the hit-and-run, this guy fled from the scene,\u201d a female dispatcher says in response to a call for assistance from the surrounded ICE agents, per audio shared by ExxAlerts on the X platform.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the offending vehicle crashed, they ran the federal agent off the road, they fled on foot westbound,\u201d the dispatcher added.<\/p>\n In the dispatch recording, a male voice can be heard instructing the dispatcher to direct responding officers to approach the scene but to \u201cstay put\u201d a few blocks away and wait for further instructions. The dispatcher then relays those orders over the radio.<\/p>\n The male voice can then be heard moments later saying tersely: \u201cPer the chief of patrol: Clear everybody out, we\u2019re not responding over there.\u201d<\/p>\n The female dispatcher then instructs Chicago PD officers responding to the distress call, \u201cper the chief of patrol, all units clear out from there, we\u2019re not sending anybody out to that location.\u201d<\/p>\n But then, a male police officer can be heard responding over the sound of a wailing siren: \u201cWe\u2019re going to clear out as soon as we can, we\u2019re like blocked in over here, so we\u2019re going to do the best we can to get out of here as soon as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n LISTEN:<\/p>\n