Liberal mayor-elect wants National Guard to shutter open-air drug markets

Cherelle Parker was elected Philadelphia's first female mayor Tuesday. She previously said she would bring in the National Guard to help clean up the city's open-air drug markets.

Jon Michael Raasch is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.

"Will I call on them to help us, for example, shut down the open-air drug market in Kensington that’s being allowed to prevail?" Parker asked the voter. "They will be a part of the solution."

Parker told the Philadelphia Inquirer she wants "a strong intergovernmental approach to address the crisis ongoing in Kensington" and that she will "put an end to the open-air drug market and drug use residents are being forced to live with."