Chicago legal professional and retired police lieutenant John Garrido has raised critical authorized and moral issues after it was revealed that Chicago Police Division officers had been ordered to “stand down” whereas federal brokers had been below assault within the metropolis’s Brighton Park neighborhood on Saturday morning.
The Gateway Pundit reported that federal officers from U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had been ambushed by a convoy of roughly ten automobiles in what officers described as a “coordinated assault” by home extremists protesting President Trump’s ongoing deportation operations in Chicago.
The confrontation started when a car pushed by Marimar Martinez, a identified agitator with a historical past of doxxing ICE brokers on-line, allegedly rammed an ICE patrol unit whereas brandishing a semi-automatic weapon.
Trapped and outnumbered, brokers had been compelled to exit their automobiles and hearth defensive photographs, hanging Martinez within the shoulder.
She fled the scene and later checked into Mount Sinai Hospital earlier than being taken into FBI custody. One other suspect, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, was arrested and stays in federal detention.
No federal officers sustained life-threatening accidents, although a number of CBP brokers had been handled for minor wounds following the assault.
Regardless of 911 calls made by the brokers, Chicago officers didn’t reply, following a direct “no response” order from command.
An audio recording captured the second items en path to the scene had been waved off, with the dispatcher noting, “I’m waving off the entire automobiles heading to thirty ninth Place in Kedzie. One other individual states, “These are the orders we’re giving.”
Chicago legal professional and former police lieutenant John Garrido, of Garrido & Stoppa, P.C., weighed in on social media, calling the stand-down directive “deeply disturbing and presumably unlawful.”
He wrote:
CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON ORDERS CHICAGO POLICE TO STAND DOWN WHEN ICE CALLED FOR HELP!!
What occurred immediately ought to disturb each regulation enforcement skilled.
An ICE car was reportedly compelled off the street on the South Facet of Chicago and crashed. The offender fled on foot. ICE known as for help. The ninth District’s Captain (beat 999) did precisely what any good supervisor ought to do, he ordered automobiles to reply, examine for accidents, doc the crash, and render assist.
Moments later, a few block away, an ICE agent known as out that they had been being surrounded and boxed in by a mob, a transparent “officers want help” state of affairs. Once more, the ninth District Captain ordered items to reply.
However earlier than they might arrive, that very same Captain got here again over the radio and stated that per the Chief of Patrol, officers had been to face down and never reply to help the ICE brokers.
Let’s be clear:
The Illinois TRUST Act (5 ILCS 805) and Chicago’s Welcoming Metropolis Ordinance (Chapter 2-173) prohibit native officers from aiding in civil immigration enforcement, equivalent to detaining somebody solely for immigration standing.
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in these legal guidelines prohibits officers from responding to an emergency, rendering medical assist, or defending life and property.
In reality, below Illinois regulation (720 ILCS 5/7-15 and 5/7-16), each peace officer has an obligation to render assist and an obligation to intervene to stop hurt or harm when it’s secure to take action.
To order officers to disregard a name for assist from fellow regulation enforcement, any regulation enforcement, isn’t only a violation of fundamental ethics. It might be gross negligence, dereliction of responsibility, and presumably even legal if hurt resulted.
In my 32 years of service with the Chicago Police Division, I’ve by no means heard something this egregious. No badge ought to ever be instructed to show their again on one other officer in misery. Interval.
CHICAGO MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON ORDERS CHICAGO POLICE TO STAND DOWN WHEN ICE CALLED FOR HELP!!
What occurred immediately ought to disturb each regulation enforcement skilled.
An ICE car was reportedly compelled off the street on the South Facet of Chicago and crashed. The offender fled on…
— John Garrido (@JohnGarridoIII) October 4, 2025
