These Chicago residents welcome extra help fighting crime but don't want Trump to send the National Guard

Cedric Hawkins doesn’t take his age lightly. At 44, he’s had nine relatives killed by gun violence.

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After growing up around gangs in Chicago and having served time in prison, Hawkins now works with the anti-gun violence group Chicago CRED in part as a violence mediator, trying to stop gun violence before it has the chance to start.

The longtime southside Chicago resident has personally seen a decrease in murders in his Pullman neighborhood this year and like other residents, he worries a National Guard deployment to his city could throw off a playbook that, at least for now, seems like it’s working, he said.

“The presence of military for me, would put our communities in a situation where they feel like they are incarcerated,” Hawkins told CNN. “We’re already in a situation in Chicago where the trust with (local) law enforcement is very, very low.”

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