Chicago police ordered not to respond after car-ramming attack on federal agents: sources
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An internal dispatch revealed Chicago police officers were ordered by their chief of patrol not to respond after Border Patrol agents called for help, saying they were boxed in and surrounded following a ramming incident outside Chicago, multiple federal and Chicago law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News.

Fox News reviewed the computer-aided dispatch message sent to Chicago police officers by their chief of patrol. The message instructed officers not to respond to a Saturday morning ramming incident outside the city in which an armed woman was shot and agents were boxed in and surrounded.

“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.

On Saturday morning, federal agents were rammed and trapped by 10 vehicles in the suburb of Broadview, where anti-ICE crowds had gathered for days. Nearly a dozen people were arrested.

Federal agents confront protesters outside the ICE Detention Center

Federal agents clash with demonstrators outside the ICE Detention Center in suburban Chicago. (Dominic Gwinn/Getty Images)

The ICE facility in Broadview has become a flashpoint for the protests. On Friday, Fox News witnessed more than a dozen protesters being arrested in the streets near the facility.

Tensions grew hours later when Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker issued a series of statements on X, accusing the Trump administration and federal law enforcement of “unprecedented escalations of aggression against Illinois citizens and residents.”

Earlier this month, ICE launched Operation Midway Blitz, describing the operation as one that “will 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.”

Fox News Digital’s Alexandra Koch and Greg Norman contributed to this report.

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