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'Good thing Trump is doing something': Chicago residents respond to crime crackdown

Project H.O.O.D. founder and CEO Pastor Corey Brooks joins 'Fox & Friends' to weigh in on President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to Chicago as he continues to fight crime in major cities nationwide. 

A Chicago pastor is pushing back against claims that the city’s crime crisis is improving, calling on President Donald Trump to step in before the violence escalates. 

Pastor Corey Brooks, who leads Project H.O.O.D., a violence prevention group on the city’s South Side, said Wednesday the community has already seen 254 deaths in 233 days, with 80% of those victims being Black boys.

Updated figures from the city’s official crime dashboard now show 266 homicides this year, averaging more than one a day.

"For anyone in our community to say that things are getting better and that people are safe, that is an outright lie," Brooks told "Fox & Friends."

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Pastor Corey Brooks camps atop an abandoned Chicago motel in December 2011, protesting violence and raising funds for a community center. (Mira Oberman/Getty Images/)

The pastor is urging Trump to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, pointing to the administration’s recent crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. The National Guard’s presence in the capital coincided with a 12-day stretch of no homicides, a streak that ended Tuesday.

Brooks argues that Illinois leaders are blocking similar action in Chicago for political purposes. 

"One of the number-one priorities of government is to make sure that the citizens of America stay safe. And that should be the number-one priority of the governor and the mayor, but it's not," he said. 

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"The only thing that they're really concerned [with] when it comes to Black lives that matter, is Black lives matter that vote."

Armed National Guard members patrol near the U.S. Capitol as security tightens following President Trump’s deployment order. (Getty Images/Tasos Katopodis)

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, both Democrats, have both rejected Trump's offer of federal intervention. 

"We are being targeted because of what and who we represent," Johnson said during a press conference Monday. 

Pritzker warned the Trump administration, saying: "Mr. President, do not come to Chicago." 

Trump, however, said Tuesday he is prepared to intervene.

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