Chicago Alderman blasts mayor on police support for federal agents

A Chicago alderman and former police officer is blasting the city’s mayor for politicizing the police force in response to recent reports that the department was ordered not to help federal immigration agents who were surrounded by protesters.

“When someone calls for help, our guys go. Period,” Anthony Napolitano, a Republican Chicago alderman from the 41st Ward and a former Chicago police officer and firefighter, told Fox News Digital.

“There is no way in hell that our officers would not have responded to that call for help even from the recharge. From our superintendent all the way down to our PPOs, they all would have done so unless there was a directive. I believe by the mayor’s office. This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in my 50 years of living and working for the police. Police react to situations.

Chicago police officers were ordered by their patrol chief not to respond after Border Patrol agents called for help, saying they were drafted and surrounded following a parade incident outside Chicago, Fox News Digital reported during the weekend.

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Fox News Digital spoke to Chicago failure Anthony Napolitano (left) about police being asked not to help federal agents in trouble. (Fox News Digital/Getty)

Napolitano called the order an “unheard of” stand-down and something he “never” experienced during his time as a first responder and placed blame on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

“It’s pure politics that controls our police,” Napolitano said. “A lot of people at City Hall feel the same way, even if they don’t say it out loud. The mayor’s administration is trying to create chaos – so this federal aid seems catastrophic instead of helpful. It’s politics over public safety, and it’s outrageous. The officers swear an oath to the Constitution, not to the mayor.”

Chicago has been at the center of the national immigration debate in recent weeks as ICE launched Operation Midway Blitz, describing the operation as one that will “target 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 walk freely on American streets. “

Pritzker and Johnson resisted the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy federal resources to apprehend illegal immigrants in the city, with Johnson calling Trump “unstable” and labeling his efforts a “blatant attempt to undermine the sanctity of our democracy.”

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Napolitano told Fox News Digital that Chicago residents he spoke with “Want more police” and are behind efforts to rid the streets of criminal illegal aliens.

“They want federal agents removing some of these people who don’t belong here,” Napolitano said, adding that while there is support for “hard-working” individuals trying to make the city a better place, residents are “furious” about hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars going to programs supporting illegal immigrants while citizens struggle.

As for Trump sending federal resources to Chicago, Napolitano said, “Send him more.”

“I love it. It’s absolutely needed more than you know,” Napolitano said. We must clean our streets. There are a lot of intense gang members and now when you bring such an influx of illegals who are gang members onto the streets of the city of Chicago, which previously had over 170,000 of our own gang members here originally, and they start to compete for territory and vice profits, there is a major problem in the city. So they have to come in and stay here until they clean it up. “

The Chicago Police Department issued a statement Sunday disputing the officers’ failure to respond, saying they were on the scene to maintain public safety and document the incident.

“To clarify the misinformation currently circulating, DPC officers did in fact respond to the federally involved shooting scene on Saturday to maintain public safety and traffic control,” the department said.

CPD added that federal authorities were investigating the shooting, but officers were present to provide security. Later in the afternoon, police also responded to a separate call involving two hit-and-run crashes affecting federal personnel, the department said.

“The Chicago Police Department will always respond to anyone who is attacked or threatened with physical harm,” the department said. “For incidents involving federal immigration enforcement, CPD supervisors will respond to the scene and determine the appropriate course of action in accordance with city law.”

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Screenshot of the October 4, 2025 computer-aided dispatch message from the Chicago patrol chief, instructing officers not to respond to a call for help from ice officers who reported being surrounded outside the city. (Chicago Computer Aided Dispatch System)

But two longtime Chicago police sources strongly rejected the department’s assertion that officers responded to calls for help from ICE officers who were rammed and surrounded by protesters, Say Fox News It was, in their words, “covering their Bulls – the bulls -!!”

One of the drivers accused of crashing into the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon, according to DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who also said the officers were unable to move and “were forced to deploy their weapons and fire shots at an armed U.S. citizen.”

Napolitano told Fox News Digital that the mayor’s actions are likely driven by his “in the gutter” poll numbers.

“A lot of us think it’s a burn on the exit effect where you have no chance of getting re-elected, so what you’re going to do is try to do as much as your agenda and their socialist movement over the last couple of years that they can,” Napolitano said ahead of the 2027 election. That’s all it is there.”

Fox News Digital has contacted Johnson’s office for comment.