Trump plans to send troops to Baltimore while the inhabitants remain divided

Baltimore – President Donald Trump plans Baltimore for his next crime repression, but residents agree that the city needs change, they remain divided on the question of whether the deployment of the National Guard is the answer.

Fox News Digital spoke Wednesday with 17 inhabitants in Baltimore that a deployment of the National Guard would mean for their community. While many feared that this increased tensions and inspires the riots, others said that the troops could serve as a crime deterrence.

When we asked him if Trump should intervene and send troops to the city, Tasha, a young mother who was pushing her baby in a stroller outside the social services department, said: “Yes, I do it, because at the moment, our city needs it. Baltimore is on fire right now. We need as much aid as possible.”

Joseph, a Penn-North resident, said that the presence of the National Guard would dissuade drug traffickers and users to stroll through the streets around his house. There was a homeless woman who was sleeping on her bottom while Fox News Digital spoke to him on Wednesday.

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Fox News Digital spoke to residents of Baltimore this week of the Trump plan to send the National Guard. (Fox News Digital)

“I think that would be much better,” said Joseph.

Daren Muhammed, a local radio host who called Penn-North “Ground Zero”, said that “all options should be placed on the table and made available” to clean the streets he calls at home.

“My feeling is that if the federal government offers help, it is stupid to refuse it,” said Anthony, a Baltimore resident for 30 years.

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Buildings abandoned in the Penn-North district of Baltimore, MD (Fox News Digital)

Each Penn-North resident who spoke to Fox News Digital admitted on Wednesday that the city had a crime problem.

More than two dozen people have been hospitalized in a Mass medication overdose event in Penn-North in July. In the meantime, Three of the seven homicides In Baltimore, in August, were in the nearby park, according to local reports.

Between people who sell and consume drugs at the corner while a police car was parked just down the street, Tasha said that in Penn-North, “everything is back here as if it had not even happened a month ago.”

The mayor of Baltimore, Brandon M. Scott, celebrated the “historic discounts of violent crimes” in a statement published Monday, praising 91 homicides and 218 non -fatal shots in 2025, which, according to him, are drops of 29.5% and 21%.

“We are good; we do not need or the national guard here in Baltimore,” Scott said In response to Trump’s potential plans, while promoting a statistic that Baltimore knows its lowest homicide rate in 50 years.

Governor Wes Moore, d-md., Reiterated the same statistics and Same guest Trump For public security, stroll through Baltimore.

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Fox News Digital spoke to the Baltimore residents of the Trump plan to send the National Guard to fight crime (Fox News Digital)

“As president, I prefer to clean this crime disaster before going there for a walk,” wrote Trump on Trump Social, while the president continues to report his desire to send troops.

The statistics compiled by the non -profit research institute show that the Baltimore murder rate in 2024 is still 6.8 times the average for all the metropolitan areas of the country and that if the murder rate remains the same as in 2024, around 1 in 38 people in the city will have their short life by murder in 2024 in their lives.

“I don’t think they need to bring the troops to enter,” said Sarah, who said she was homeless and a drug addict, told Fox News Digital. “I think it will get a tumult. It will start a riot.”

Sarah said she had witnessed theft, theft and shots, but said it would be “absurd” to send the National Guard, adding: “We are not in the war zone”.

Trayvon, a young man from Baltimore who dragged outside the CVS pharmacy in Penn -North on Wednesday, said that the National Guard “will not change” in a “rebellious city that was not shown of love forever”.

“I think that anyone who has lived here through Freddie Gray, through a curfew, having almost a martial law in a certain way, making the ramp close and locked to come after a certain hour, literally being blocked if you were on this side of the city, with the guard there and some other different departments, I think that psychologically, it is probably not the best for people who are heal “hill.

Freddie Gray was a 25 -year -old black man from Baltimore who died in police custody in 2015. The National Guard was deployed in Baltimore after his death sparked demonstrations that turned into riots, triggering a national debate on racism and police brutality.

“The day when people cannot control themselves and cannot control the end of everything themselves,” said another Baltimore woman in Bolton Hill. “This is what we see at the moment. No one will save us – not the National Guard, not the police.”

Ronette, a woman who spoke to Fox News Digital via the Social Services Department to Penn-North, agreed, arguing that Baltimore can take care of himself.

“We don’t need Trump to arrive in the door,” she said.

Another Baltimore resident, George, said that Trump threatening to deploy troops is simply a “blow”, while a woman wearing a facial mask outside her house to Bolton Hill said that she “would increase the much higher tensions than they are”.

Will Hanna, a Baltimore combat veteran, said the city needed federal aid but not the National Guard.

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A lively street corner in the Baltimore district in Penn-North (Fox News Digital)

“I think there are resources that we have not exhausted as a city and as a state,” said Hanna. “I think we can always bring the state soldiers here.”

Trump launched the idea of ​​sending federal troops to Baltimore, similar to his recent move to send troops to Washington, DC, to “quickly clean the crime” if the governor of Maryland Wes Moore says he needs help.

“Chicago is a Hellhole at the moment, Baltimore is a Hellhole right now,” said Trump earlier this month. “We have the right to do it because I have the obligation to do so to protect this country, and that includes Baltimore.”