Chicago police ordered to ignore border patrol agents plea for help while surrounded by angry mob of protesters

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.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 weapon — attempted to run the officers down, but was shot by police.Local cops were initially readied to help the agents, but were ordered to stand down by the chief of patrol, according to shocking dispatch audio transmissions.“Younger male Hispanic wearing all black … wanted for the hit and run, this guy fled from the scene,” a female dispatcher blares in response to a call for help by the surrounded ICE agents on audio shared by ExxAlerts.“When the offending vehicle crashed, they ran the federal agent off the road, they fled on foot westbound.”A male voice then comes on the radio channel, telling the dispatcher to direct officers to head to the scene and “stay put” a few blocks away and await further instruction, which she relays.A few seconds later, the male voice is heard again, saying tersely: “Per the chief of patrol: clear everybody out, we’re not responding over there.”The female dispatcher then tells officers on the way to the distress call, “per the chief of patrol, all units clear out from there, we’re not sending anybody out to that location.”A male officer responds over the sound of sirens wailing in the background, saying, “We’re going to clear out ...