Two seasoned, high-ranking Chicago police insiders strongly denied the department’s claim that officers responded to pleas for assistance from ICE agents who were encircled and hit by protesters on Saturday, describing the official narrative as what they called “COVER THEIR A– BULLS–T!!” to Fox News.

Their remarks follow Fox News’ acquisition of an internal dispatch showing Chicago police officers were instructed by their chief of patrol not to assist after Border Patrol agents requested help, stating they were hemmed in and encircled following a ramming incident outside the city, according to various federal and Chicago law enforcement officials.

Fox News examined the computer-aided dispatch order sent to Chicago police officers by their chief of patrol. The directive advised officers against responding to a Saturday morning incident on the city’s southwest side where an armed woman was shot and agents found themselves cornered and surrounded.

“PLEASE CHIEF OF PATROL NO UNITS WILL RESPOND TO THIS AS RELATED FROM 04-Oc5-2025/12:34:44…CALLER IS 1 OF APPROX 30 ARMED PATROL AGENTS (ICE) WHO ARE BEING SURROUNDED BY A LARGE CROWD OF PEOPLE REQUESTING CPD,” the dispatch order stated.

Federal agents clash with demonstrators outside the ICE Detention Center in suburban Chicago. (Dominic Gwinn/Getty Images)

The ICE location in Broadview has become a hotspot for demonstrations. On Friday, Fox News observed over a dozen protesters being detained in the vicinity of the facility.

Tensions escalated within hours as Illinois Governor JB Pritzker released a series of statements on X, accusing the Trump administration and federal law enforcement of “unprecedented escalations of aggression against Illinois citizens and residents.”

Earlier this month, ICE launched Operation Midway Blitz, describing the operation as one that “will target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.”