Springfield, Ohio, Receives Bomb Threat Amid Viral Attacks on Migrants
By: Nikki McCann Ramirez
normal political discourse and activity by the racist maga faithful...
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A small town in Ohio has become the center of national controversy over false claims that its Haitian residents are killing local pets
Last week, Republicans made the town of Springfield, Ohio, the center of a racist smear campaign accusing Haitian migrants of slaughtering and eating local pets. In the subsequent days, what began as gross online misinformation evolved into threats of violence against Haitian residents of Springfield and city officials.
On Thursday, Springfield's city hall was forced to evacuate after receiving a bomb threat. According to the city commission, the threat was emailed to "to multiple agencies and media outlets.
"City of Springfield received a bomb threat that has prompted an immediate response from local and regional law enforcement," the city wrote on its Facebook page. "As a precautionary measure, the building has been evacuated, and authorities are currently conducting a thorough investigation. Our primary concern is the safety and well-being of our employees and residents. We are working to address this situation as swiftly as possible."
It's unclear what inspired the threats, but the incident took place just days after former President Donald Trump repeated online claims that Haitian migrants were killing and eating people's pets during Tuesday's debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.
"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs," Trump said. "The people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there."
The claim has also been amplified by Trump's running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, and other Republican lawmakers and commentators.
Vance has repeatedly defended his public fear-mongering against Haitian migrants, despite the accusations of animal abuse having been debunked and his own acknowledgment that the reports were dubious. On Thursday, a 2016 tweet from Vance in which he criticized Trump's rhetoric on immigration resurfaced on social media.
"Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc," Vance wrote. "Because of this, I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us."
Oh, how the prospect of power changes a man.
Local city officials and law enforcement have denied the accusations against the migrants, who are of legal immigration status and have been drawn to the county as a growing job center.
On Tuesday, Springfield Police stated that "in response to recent rumors alleging criminal activity by the immigrant population in our city, we wish to clarify that there have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community."
Officials also clarified that law enforcement had been unable to find evidence substantiating a 911 call from a resident claiming to have seen a group of Haitians kidnapping geese from a local pond. "No videos have surfaced, no pictures have surfaced, no dead geese have surfaced; there's nothing to substantiate that it's happening," Clark County Commissioner Sasha Rittenhouse said during a Wednesday meeting.
Clark County Sheriff's Office Major Scott Cultice added that he and an employee of the Clark County Combined Dispatch Center had reviewed 11 months of police records and found that the call about the geese — which right-wing media have widely circulated — was the only report they found regarding unlawful treatment of an animal by Haitian migrants.
The spotlight on the town, and the unsubstantiated smears against its immigrant residents, has created a climate of anxiety and fear of retaliation.
A report from MSNBC found that one Haitian resident of Springfield had been asked by his coworkers if he and his community eats cats.
Viles Dorsainvil, president of Springfield's Haitian Community Center, told MSNBC that he's gotten phone calls from scared members of the community asking if they'll need to leave the town because they were "afraid" for their lives.
Alimemby Estimable, a 19-year-old graduate of Springfield High School, told USA Todaythat he's been seeing a lot of people talking about a lot of stuff that's not accurate. You know, saying, like, all Haitians are cutting ducks' necks and eating them at the park and like, they're running into trash cans and homes and stuff. I ain't never seen a Haitian do that before. I'm just keep it real, because I'm a Haitian myself."
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oh well, expected, but at least maga isn't using dead service members as political props this week...
What a surprise after the fucking moron said it at the debate that now the threats start.
And he’s not the least bit sorry for it, either.
... but he saw it on FOX!
Yeah that’s where anyone who wants to lead our country should be getting their information. /s
It’s mind boggling that people are ok with that.
he'll keep saying it until his campaign can create the video to prove it or somebody gets killed ...
he keeps doubling and tripling and quadrupling down. Racist son of a bitch.
and Facebook and X
The same old scare tactics that the right has used for decades.
this makes a large segment of maga goosestep around in total jubilation. next comes all the cross burnings...
Sad but true.
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Decent people in this city , Haitians and whites, are having their lives turned up side down as they are forced to be part of a race war of words, which is all this really is.
It appears the right has a problem with any kind of immigrant.
A big problem if they are not lily white.
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The AZ GOP has posted a dozen billboards
Does anyone think Chik-Fil-A has a problem with this billboard?
I don't. It's right up their alley
It will drive even more bigots there like when Sarah the pitbull Palin spread some garbage years ago
They really want to put their names to this shit?
Maybe AZ Repubs are desperate to nail down the elusive Cat Lady vote.
Killed a goose once with a 300 yard drive on a KC golf course. Didn't catch all of it.
Asked the course Marshall what to do?
He shrugged, laughed and said "it's your meat".
Took it home and fed my friends for a week.
I now aim at geese that infest my golf course.
And I'm not even Haitian! Just a Kansas boy.
Even had the beer girl over for dinner (another story).
LOL, I topped a ball with a 7 iron on an approach shot and sent a line drive into a goose's head 50 yards away and put it to sleep. I was playing in a 4some against 2 opponents with a friend in a $100 per person game and we were losing at that point. one of other players became so emotionally distraught he 4 putted that hole. when we turned around the goose was off the fairway and all the geese were now in the water hazard by then. we consoled the goose lover by proclaiming the goose must have regained consciousness (no way in hell) and rejoined the flock, but he couldn't put his game back together and they lost. naturally, they attempted to welch on the bet because of the incident when we were finished, but the starter was holding the bet and ruled in our favor. I palmed him (kenny) a twenty on the way to the parking lot after lunch at the 19th hole and I never had to call ahead for a tee time at that course again.
Geese are such a problem at the course where my dad used to golf that nobody would mind a bit if somebody took out a goose with a poorly (or well?) place shot. They're a menace. And they shit everywhere.
some of our courses have dogs to chase them off, but sometimes they catch one, and in big cities the bunny huggers really don't like when that happens...
I suspect, because of the golf course location, a predator was stalking the geese and absconded with the victim of my titleist ...
And they're good eating! I wouldn't know about cats and dogs though.
Geese are good eating. My best friend made it for Christmas dinner one year.
Charleston, WV's Yeager Airport has a dog named Hercules that herds birds, including geese from a nearby park, away from the runway to prevent bird strikes.
There was a 4-H camp with a lake near where I grew up where a lot of local high schools sent their band kids for band camp. It was and still is overrun by Canadian geese year-round. The kids were not allowed to break formation while marching, even to avoid stepping in goose poop. Neither the campers nor their parents were very happy with the state of their shoes when they got home.
Domestic geese. Canada geese are nasty from what I hear
geese get harvested from the parks here, processed, and given to those suffering food insecurity.
I've heard they taste fowl.
Very punny.
Or as my Uncle Bob used to say.... Fowl is foul
they're pretty greasy, from what I remember from holiday dinners many decades ago ...
not a big fan of fowl. my holiday tradition is surf and turf or I'm probably not coming ...
Now the Proud Boys are marching in Springfield, Trump, and his followers must be overjoyed.
they got their marching orders from the cult leader of all domestic terrorists, trump ...
even though their hero let the leadership of the proud boys go to the big house without a pardon ... ... so long suckers!