Chicago Attorney and Retired Police Lieutenant Suggests Local Police May Have VIOLATED STATE LAW by Issuing “Stand Down” Order While a Uniformed Federal Officer Was in Distress
Chicago attorney and retired police lieutenant John Garrido has raised serious legal and ethical concerns after it was revealed that Chicago Police Department officers were ordered to “stand down” while federal agents were under attack in the city’s Brighton Park neighborhood on Saturday morning.
The Gateway Pundit reported that federal officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were ambushed by a convoy of roughly ten vehicles in what officials described as a “coordinated assault” by domestic extremists protesting President Trump’s ongoing deportation operations in Chicago.
The confrontation began when a vehicle driven by Marimar Martinez, a known agitator with a history of doxxing ICE agents online, allegedly rammed an ICE patrol unit while brandishing a semi-automatic weapon.
Trapped and outnumbered, agents were forced to exit their vehicles and fire defensive shots, striking Martinez in the shoulder.
She fled the scene and later checked into Mount Sinai Hospital before being taken into FBI custody. Another suspect, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, was arrested and remains in federal detention.
No federal officers sustained life-threatening injuries, though several CBP agents were treated for minor wounds following the assault.
Despite 911 calls made by the agents, Chicago officers did not respond, following a direct “no response” order from command.
An audio recording captured the moment units en route to the scene were waved off, with the dispatcher noting, “I’m waving off all of the cars heading to 39th Place in Kedzie. Another person states, “Those are the orders we’re giving.”
Chicago attorney and former police lieutenant John Garrido, of Garrido & Stoppa, P.C., weighed in on social media, calling the stand-down directive “deeply disturbing and possibly illegal.”