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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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