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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — The Chicago Police Department is pushing backmost against allegations that officers were told to “stand down” successful effect to play incidents involving national migration enforcement officers and agents, including 1 successful which a pistillate was shot.
The Fraternal Order of Police, an advocacy radical for instrumentality enforcement that endorsed Donald Trump for president successful 2024, alleged Chicago metropolis constabulary were ordered not to respond to assistance a radical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers portion they were being “physically threatened” by what appeared to beryllium an aggravated radical of people.
A spokesperson for the National Fraternal Order of Police said that some the FOP and the Chicago section of the organization “believe that erstwhile an serviceman calls for assistance, you answer, nary substance what.”
However, successful a connection provided by a Chicago Police Department spokesperson, the bureau said that officers did so respond to incidents involving national agents and officers, including the country of the shooting successful which a pistillate was hospitalized aft being changeable by national officers.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said that a pistillate who had been threatening national officers had a semiautomatic limb and was successful a conveyance that boxed national officers in.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents basal defender arsenic demonstrators protestation extracurricular of an ICE processing installation successful Broadview, Illinois, US, connected Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker warned residents that helium expected national migration agents to measurement up enactment successful the third-largest US metropolis this weekend. Photographer: Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesDHS officials accidental the shooting occurred connected the city’s Southwest Side aft U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents were ambushed by “domestic terrorists” who rammed national constabulary with vehicles.
The woman, injured by “defensive fire” from CBP agents, was driving 1 of the vehicles and had a semiautomatic weapon, a DHS quality merchandise said.
Officials said that the pistillate who was changeable by constabulary has a past of “doxxing agents.”
The city’s constabulary section said that officers besides responded to calls for work involving national officers who were the victims of 2 hit-and-run crashes. The crashes were not related to the shooting incident, the metropolis spokesperson said, but successful each case, officers responded and documented the incidents.
However, successful an audio telephone of communications betwixt Chicago constabulary officers obtained by NewsNation, the department’s main of patrol tin beryllium heard saying,” Clear everybody up. … We’re not responding implicit there" successful the determination wherever national agents changeable the woman.
Seven seconds later, the patrol main repeats that “we’re not sending anyone implicit to that location.”
Despite the audio of the call, Chicago constabulary officials are denying that officers were told not to respond to the incident. Larry Snelling, Chicago constabulary superintendent, volition code the substance astatine a quality league connected Monday afternoon.
“As we person made wide before, we volition respond to calls for work and enforce the instrumentality erstwhile crimes are committed,” the CPD spokesperson said. “For incidents involving national migration enforcement, CPD supervisors volition respond to the country and find the due people of enactment successful accordance with City law."
Under Chicago’s alleged “sanctuary city" policies and the Illinois Trust Act, section constabulary are prohibited from cooperating with national agencies successful national migration enforcement efforts. However, the section said that it volition ever support each individuals from harm portion prioritizing nationalist information and the sanctity of quality life.
However, Ret. Chicago Police Lt. John Garrido called Mayor Brandon Johnson’s “ICE Free Zone” enforcement bid that prohibits ICE from utilizing metropolis spot successful its operations “absolutely ridiculous.”
“If the metropolis would conscionable calm down and conscionable cooperate and coordinate with ICE, you wouldn’t person the situations that we’re having now,” Garrido said. “(ICE) is going to beryllium here. They’re here. They’re not going anywhere, truthful let’s coordinate efforts to marque it harmless for everyone.”
Garrido said that by officers refusing to respond to assistance national officers implicit the weekend, the metropolis fundamentally made the lawsuit for the Trump medication to nonstop successful National Guard troops.
“You fundamentally conscionable handed it to them and said, ‘OK, present we’re capable to nonstop successful the troops due to the fact that section instrumentality enforcement isn’t capable to help,” Garrido said.
