Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and a handful of other local leaders on Thursday denounced President Donald Trump's recent criticism of the city and his insinuation that he could send in the U.S.

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee has plans to address the community in response to the Trump Administration’s calling out of the East Bay city when considering whether or not to send National Guard troops into more cities across the country.

Mitchell acknowledged “there’s a natural ebb and flow to crime and crime statistics,” though, at large, city leaders attributed recent improvements to a revival of Oakland’s Ceasefire strategy, a program designed to intercept end retaliatory violence, especially between warring gangs.