Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Monday said officers would respond to any call of a crime being committed following uproar over his department’s role in the aftermath of two hit-and-runs and a shooting on Chicago’s Southwest Side Saturday that involved federal agents.

“We want to make sure when we show up, we’re keeping every single person in this city safe, and we want to keep the peace,” he said.

Snelling spent about 10 minutes of the 50-minute news conference defending Chief of Patrol Jon Hein following furor over a Saturday dispatch attributed to Hein that “no units would respond” to a call for assistance from armed Border Patrol agents who said they were in the middle of a crowd in Brighton Park following the traffic crashes and shooting.

The resulting internet furo

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