Sep 16, 2024 · Springfield residents are frustrated. We are fed up with being described as intolerant, racists and bigots while having our reasonable complaints labeled as irrational.

Sep 17, 2024 · The city of Springfield, Ohio, was thrust into the political spotlight after former President Donald Trump raised rumors that Haitian migrants are eating pets during the presidential debate,...

Sep 13, 2024 · SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the...

Starting in September 2024, false claims spread online saying Haitian immigrants were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. The claims began with a local Facebook group post claiming a local cat had been butchered, and spread quickly among far-right and neo-Nazi groups.

Sep 6, 2024 · Claims are unfounded that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are stealing neighbors’ pets to eat, and killing ducks and geese for food, a city spokesperson told PolitiFact. A photo cited...

Sep 23, 2024 · SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A small Ohio city has been inundated with hoax bomb threats since last week’s presidential debate, when former President Donald Trump falsely accused members of Springfield’s Haitian community of abducting and eating cats and dogs.

Sep 13, 2024 · Dorsainvil’s fear started during ABC’s Sept. 10 presidential debate from Philadelphia, when former President Donald Trump repeated a debunked claim about migrants in this small city about 45 miles...

Sep 12, 2024 · Local officials at the city and state level have repeatedly tried to end the rumor. Springfield officials have told press and city commission meetings that are no credible reports of animal...

Sep 12, 2024 · Not Springfield, Ohio. Its story of economic renewal and related growing pains has been thrust into the national conversation in a presidential election year — and maliciously distorted by false rumors that Haitian immigrants are eating their neighbors’ pets.

Sep 11, 2024 · There is no evidence to support the viral claims that members of the Haitian immigrant community in Springfield, Ohio, have harmed or eaten wildlife or pets, according to city officials.