Chicago PD Was Ordered to STAND DOWN During Ambush on Federal Agents
Newly uncovered Chicago Police Department radio transmissions reveal that officers were ordered not to respond to distress calls from federal agents who were pinned down and ambushed by armed rioters in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood early Saturday morning.
The shocking stand-down order left federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to defend themselves during a coordinated attack that officials are calling an “ambush by domestic terrorists.” The agents were forced to return fire, wounding one assailant who had rammed a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) vehicle with her car.
The violence erupted amid growing unrest over President Donald Trump’s intensified deportation operations in Chicago, part of the ongoing “Midway Blitz Operation” targeting criminal illegal aliens.
According to DHS, at least ten vehicles surrounded the agents’ patrol convoy, trapping them in place. One of the attackers, Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen previously flagged in a CBP intelligence bulletin for doxxing ICE agents and encouraging violence against them online, allegedly rammed her car into an ICE vehicle while armed with a semi-automatic weapon.
The agents, under immediate threat, fired in self-defense, striking Martinez. She later drove herself to Mount Sinai Hospital for treatment and was released into FBI custody. Another suspect, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, was arrested at the scene and remains detained.
Despite the intensity of the ambush, no federal agents suffered serious injuries, though several CBP officers sustained minor wounds.
Audio recordings from police dispatchers captured the moment Chicago officers were explicitly told to stand down. In one clip, a dispatcher can be heard saying, “I’m waving off all of the cars heading to 39th Place and Kedzie,” while another voice confirms, “Those are the orders we’re giving.” The exchange left the dispatcher audibly stunned but compliant—abandoning federal officers under attack.
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
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin condemned the Chicago Police Department’s inaction in a statement released shortly afterward:
“This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview—the same area where law enforcement officers were assaulted yesterday—our agents were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars. One of the drivers was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed U.S. citizen who drove herself to the hospital for treatment.
The armed woman had been identified last week in a CBP bulletin for doxxing agents and urging attacks online. Thankfully, no officers were seriously injured.
Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department left the scene and refused to secure the area. As the crowd grew, we had to deploy our own special operations team to take control.”
The betrayal of federal officers comes after weeks of violent protests aimed at obstructing DHS deportation efforts. Demonstrations have centered around the Broadview ICE facility, where DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has personally overseen operations alongside federal security units.
In response to the escalating violence and lack of local cooperation, President Trump authorized the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard troops to protect federal agents and property. The move filled the gap left by Governor J.B. Pritzker, who refused to activate the Guard himself and accused the president of “turning Chicago into a war zone.”
“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” Pritzker complained in a social media post Saturday.
What’s truly outrageous, critics argue, is that state and city leaders appear more concerned with shielding illegal aliens and appeasing rioters than protecting American law enforcement officers who risk their lives daily to uphold the law.
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