Department of Homeland Security agents were seen abandoning one attempt to arrest a man in Chicago over the weekend after being outnumbered by protesters. In at least one case, the Chicago Police Department was ordered not to assist federal agents swarmed by demonstrators, according to reports. In v...
  • Triumph@fedia.io
    40·
    7 hours ago

    Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported that Chicago officers were instructed not to respond to the U.S. Border Patrol’s calls for help in another incident where a vehicle was rammed and a person was shot.

    “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 incident & shooting of an armed woman,” Melugin reported on X.

    That last paragraph, from a FOX News correspondent, makes it sound like it was some ad hoc decision. It was not. Illinois does not permit any state, county, or local law enforcement to assist federal agents with their federal enforcement objectives.

    ICE agents were in the middle of doing federal enforcement work. Crowd control is on them.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      13·
      7 hours ago

      Never happened. The source is Fox News, the tentpole of the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and they lie 100% of the time. We are under no obligation to believe a single word that comes out of Fox News, in fact, I am inclined to believe the exact opposite.