President Donald Trump’s threats to send National Guard troops to Chicago sparked strong reactions in the city, with many residents defending their community against his harsh rhetoric about violent crime. Trump described Chicago as a “killing field,” escalating tensions amid concerns over crime in the nation’s third largest city.
I’ve been living here for uh 57 years and I feel very safe in Chicago. I think it’s a very safe community. You know, I travel a lot and I go to a lot of other places that are much more drug infested and than Chicago.
The last 12 months, the nation has seen a 20% decline in homicide. Chicago has seen a 30% decline in homicide. Chicago is doing better than the rest of the country on a lot of really important measures. I don’t feel that it’s necessary to send troops to Chicago. that’s not necessarily something that should be utilized in our time span. Um, I think that if that was necessary, things would be a lot different here in Chicago.
We shouldn’t feel threatened by the federal government if they come because we’re in the United States and they run the country and we elected them and put them in office. So, they should be there to help us, not not not scare us. He full of crap. He got a building here, Trump Tower. He can’t think it’s that big a killing field.
He wouldn’t have built a building there if he felt like that for real. And if they do bring troops here, only place they going to put them at is where the rich folks is. So it’s nonsense.
