For week, presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his running mate have been spreading the racist lie that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are stealing and eating people’s pets. Now, a Haitian nonprofit organization in Springfield has decided to fight back by filing criminal charges against them.
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According to the Cleveland-based Chandra law firm, Haitian Bridge Alliance has used a state statute that allows private citizens to “file an affidavit charging the offense committed.”
As reported by News 5 Cleveland, the law firm stated that the charges “stem from the impact of Trump’s and Vance’s baseless fearmongering that legal Haitian immigrants to the Ohio town are eating their neighbor’s pets.”
The charges, which were filed in Clark County Municipal Court, include: Disrupting public service, making false alarms, committing telecommunications harassment, committing aggravated menacing in violation, committing aggravated menacing and violating the prohibition against complicity.
Trump and Vance’s dehumanizing claims about Haitian immigrants led to …