We have reached a very dangerous level of political hackery. Dangerous, vitriolic rhetoric has been used by local political operatives in Illinois, and it has now taken a turn for the worse.
Bill Melugin and other sources are reporting that on October 4th, a CPD “Chief of Patrol” instructed his police officers not to respond when ICE/Border Patrol asked for help when they were under attack following a shooting. This type of order virtually never comes from the local precinct cops; that order comes from local politicians, either the mayor or possibly the governor would have given such an order.
NEW: Multiple law enforcement sources confirm to @FoxNews that Chicago police officers were instructed by their Chief of Patrol to NOT respond to Border Patrol agents call for help yesterday after they were reportedly surrounded by a large crowd of protesters following a ramming… pic.twitter.com/ipPl22Ya3I
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 5, 2025
And here is the audio of a dispatch operator telling cops not to respond.
BREAKING: 🚨 Dispatch audio CONFIRMS Chicago police were ORDERED not to assist Federal Agents that were cornered earlier today in Chicago.
Agents were ACTIVELY IN ROUTE when the order was given.
Dispatcher initially seemed slightly taken back by the order, but promptly… pic.twitter.com/0pRTyp7PxZ
— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) October 5, 2025
The Chief of Patrol who ordered the standdown is Jon Hein. It happened on Saturday.
One of the highest-ranking officers in the Chicago Police Department barred city cops from responding to calls for help from federal agents who reported being surrounded by a large crowd in Brighton Park on Saturday, according to CPD radio transmissions.
CPD Chief of Patrol Jon Hein ordered city officers to leave the area as tensions escalated following the shooting of a woman by Border Patrol agents, supervisors said in recorded radio traffic.
Note that the order transmitted is at the end of the tape. It is clear as day. Actively refusing to protect ICE/Border Patrol from local violence will result in more violence, and eventually, someone is going to be injured or killed if CPD officers are not allowed to respond to pleas from federal officers. The mob will find out that cops will not respond.
Politics has trumped common sense (pun intended). Politics has taken away reason. There are plenty of precedents for this — all from blue cities.
In 2020, when the “summer of love” kicked off in Seattle, with Antifa and other masked marauders taking over Seattle and then settling in at the absurdly named “Chaz” (later called CHOP), the cops in that city were told that only under certain circumstances could sworn officers enter the “autonomous” zone. In short, they were instructed to surrender to the will of people intent on forming a new nation, in the middle of Seattle.
A shooting occurred in that area, with cops and first responders allowed to enter if they asked for permission to enter. When cops are instructed by political hacks to stand down, only bad things happen. The East Precinct was under siege, but for boarding it up and putting out fires, that station would have met the same fate as the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis.
Shortly after the George Floyd riots started in Minneapolis, the cops were under orders from political hacks that their precinct was not to be protected. Cops were ordered to allow felonies to occur. Many of them escaped the 3rd Precinct with nothing but their lives.
When local state and city cops are ordered not to prevent crime, criminals will do what they choose — and that is usually crime. When local cops are ordered not to help fellow officers – that is a like dystopian nightmare; the stuff of B-movie scripts where corrupt cops, on the take, refuse to help a fellow cop in distress because the cop that cop isn’t corrupt.
Federal cops, ICE agents doing their sworn duty are under siege. They are pelted with insults and often pelted with beer cans, spit on, and their vehicles are the target of rocks.
What allows battery on ICE agents to happen? It only happens when local political officials allow it to happen. When that happens, criminals have free rein.
Now in Chicago, ICE/Border Patrol agents are being attacked. But CPD has been instructed to stand down almost assuredly by political hacks.
Recall that Illinois Governor JB Pritzker recently suggested the ICE and Border Patrol are arresting innocent people. They (ICE) are the bad guys, not the illegal aliens.
The media helps to inflame the hysteria. For example, the below is from an NBC article:
The enforcement in and around Chicago turned deadly this month when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed an immigrant who tried to flee in his car when an officer pulled him over.
In fact, the man shot was an illegal alien named Silvio Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. Villegas-Gonzalez tried to run over an ICE officer with a car. That is attempted murder with a dangerous weapon, and he was shot by the ICE agent. Had Chicago (and the state) not been sanctuaries for illegal aliens, Villegas-Gonzalez likely wouldn’t have been emboldened to try to flee. His family called him kind and gentle. Just not with ICE agents, apparently.
With protestors interfering with ICE, local cops generally will clear the protestors once they become violent, but now, in Chicago, cops are leaving ICE agents to fend for themselves. CPD officers have, apparently, been told to stand down and not respond to a request for help by ICE and Border Patrol.
Federal officers are under siege.
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