Uncovered Chicago Police Department radio transmissions reveal that local cops were explicitly ordered to ignore distress calls from federal agents who were pinned down and ambushed by armed rioters in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood on Saturday morning.
This outrageous stand-down directive left brave federal officers to fend for themselves against a coordinated attack, forcing them to fire and wounding one female assailant who had rammed a DHS vehicle with her car.
The chaos erupted on Saturday amid escalating protests against President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation operations in the Windy City. Federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were on routine patrol when they were suddenly surrounded and boxed in by at least 10 vehicles during what DHS officials described as a deliberate ambush by “domestic terrorists.”
One of the key aggressors, Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen with a history of doxxing ICE agents online, allegedly rammed her vehicle into an ICE patrol unit while armed with a semi-automatic weapon.
Trapped and under threat, the agents had no choice but to exit their vehicles and fire defensive shots, wounding Martinez. She drove herself to Mount Sinai Hospital for treatment and was later discharged into FBI custody.
Federal Agents Boxed in and Ambushed by 10 Cars in Chicago, Forced to Fire Defensive Rounds Against Armed Attacker
Another participant, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, was apprehended for his role in the ramming attack and remains in custody.
Miraculously, no federal officers suffered serious injuries, though several CBP agents were hospitalized for minor wounds from the assaults.
As the agents radioed for backup, Chicago PD dispatchers relayed a chilling order to stand down.
An audio recording captured the moment units en route to the scene were waved off, with the dispatcher noting, “I’m waving off all of the cars heading to 39th Place in Kedzie. Another person states, “Those are the orders we’re giving.”
LISTEN BELOW:
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 dispatcher even seemed momentarily stunned but complied, leaving the feds isolated and vulnerable.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin blasted the CPD for abandoning the scene and refusing to secure the area as crowds swelled.
This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.
Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One…
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) October 4, 2025
McLaughlin wrote:
This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.
Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.
The armed woman was named in a @CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online ‘Hey to all my gang let’s fuck those mother fuckers up, don’t let them take anyone.’
Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in this attack.
Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene.
This is an evolving situation and we will give more information as soon as it becomes available.
This betrayal comes amid weeks of violent unrest triggered by DHS’s “Midway Blitz Operation,” a Trump-directed crackdown on criminal illegal aliens in Chicago and surrounding areas.
Protests have centered on the Broadview ICE facility, where DHS Secretary Kristi Noem personally oversaw operations from a rooftop, surrounded by armed guards.
In response to the escalating violence, President Trump authorized the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard troops to protect federal personnel and property, stepping in where local Democrats have failed miserably.
Meanwhile, Gov. Pritzker threw a tantrum, refusing to activate the Guard himself and accusing Trump of turning Chicago into a “war zone” for political gain.
“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” he whined in a social media post on Saturday.
What’s actually outrageous, however, is a Democrat governor prioritizing illegal aliens and rioters over American law enforcement.
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