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.”

The pastor is urging Trump to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, pointing to the administration’s recent crime crackdown in Washington,

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