Federal agents in Broadview, Illinois, were ambushed Saturday when 10 vehicles rammed and trapped them during routine operations near an ICE facility, prompting agents to fire on an armed woman who had posted online threats against ICE. The incident occurs amid weeks of protests against ICE raids that have arrested over 900 individuals, including alleged gang members, in the Chicago area. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker condemned the Trump administration’s demands for state troop support, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced reinforcements and vowed to pursue attackers.
It appears this is the man who ordered @Chicago_Police officers NOT to assist ICE Agents in need of help this morning.
“This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were ass-ulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.”
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“Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department is leaving the sh–ting 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.”
-Assistant Secretary [Dept. of Homeland Security]
BREAKING: 🚨 Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office now investigating incident where Police are accused of LEAVING FEDERAL OFFICERS CORNERED by a group of rioters, one of which was armed with a semi-automatic. https://t.co/K10sfzNmge
Today in Chicago, members of our brave law enforcement were attacked—rammed and boxed in by ten vehicles, including an attacker with a semi-automatic weapon.
I am deploying more special operations to control the scene. Reinforcements are on their way.
The group of agents were conducting their routine patrol near 39th Place and South Kedzie Avenue in the city’s South Side “when they were attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
“The officers exited their trapped vehicle, when a suspect tried to run them over, forcing the officers to fire defensively,” according to DHS, which called the incident “an evolving situation” and noted FBI agents were currently on the scene.
The suspect, who is a U.S. citizen, was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.
“Unfortunately, [Gov.] JB Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a crowd growing and we are deploying special operations to control [it],” McLaughlin said.
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A mob had gathered in the area to protest the shooting, and were met with tear gas deployed by the federal agents, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
The latest violence comes after the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement last month launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” an initiative to “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,” the department announced in an X post.
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