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. 3
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 weapo