Ohio city hall bomb threat explicitly hostile to Haitians, Springfield mayor says

[megahertz]

Source: The Guardian

Guardian staff
Fri 13 Sep 2024 08.43 EDT

The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, has said that the bomb threat made on Thursday that forced the evacuation of the city hall, two schools, and other buildings was explicitly anti-immigrant and hostile to the city’s Haitian community, following Donald Trump’s stoking of a rightwing conspiracy theory that some residents’ pets are being eaten.

The bomb threat on Thursday morning “used hateful language towards immigrants and Haitians in our community”, Rue told the Washington Post, and added that Springfield “is a community that needs help”.

Rue held a press conference on Tuesday condemning the rumors as totally false, with “zero” verified reports of such disparaging claims. ABC’s debate moderator, David Muir, made the same fact check live on Tuesday night after Trump’s remarks.

Rue told the Springfield News-Sun: “Rumors like this are taking away from the real issues such as issues involving our housing or school resources and our overwhelmed healthcare system.”

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[Botany]

1. Thanx J.D. for stirring up the mouth breathers.

Your hometown of Middletown, Ohio is only an hour away from Springfield you
have no shame.

[dlk]

2. Imagine, Ohio's own senator ramping up the violence against his Ohio constituents

What a sick and twisted man.

[bronxiteforever]

3. Vice Presidential Candidate and Ohio Senator

helps terrorize his own state and constituents. This really pins the meter on dirtball behavior. A rich man playing with civilian lives right after he WAS AT the GROUND ZERO MEMORIAL.

[hibbing]

4. Violence and racism is the base of the party n/t

[hadEnuf]

5. Taken straight from the Nazi / White Supremacist playbook.

These people are terrorists. Why are events like these not investigated as terrorism?

[ffr]

7. When can the DOJ label the republican party as a domestic terrorist organization?

Just wondering how many of their FOLLOWERS will act on dog-whistles to ACT on behalf of their candidates? How many lives will be threatened and how long must law abiding Americans tolerate this horse shit!

[orangecrush]

9. Nazis

An arm of the GOP

[onetexan]

10. Call them and prosecute these ppl as the domestic terrorists they are