Multiple buildings in Springfield, Ohio, received bomb threats this morning amid fear mongering and lies coming from some members of the Trump campaign and conservatives about the town's Haitian population. Springfield City Hall was evacuated around 8:30 a.m. [00:00:15] Thursday following a bomb threat to multiple facilities throughout Springfield, and that's according to a city statement released today, Thursday morning. Everyone who was in the City Hall building was moved out and luckily is safe. No one has been hurt, and parents of students at one Springfield [00:00:34] School also said that they were told to pick up their children. Driver and driver's license bureaus in Clark County were also closed. Today, in reflection or in response, I should say, to the threats. Now, we don't know too many specific details about the threats. [00:00:49] And right before the show, I watched a police news conference where they wouldn't even take any questions from reporters and honestly offered up no information, which is frustrating, but here's what we do know. The mayor of Springfield, Ohio, Rob Roy, would not comment [00:01:06] on the precise language of the threat, but said it came from someone claiming to be from Springfield and mentioned frustration with the city related to Haitian immigration issues. City government said it was alerted to the threat via an email message at 8:24 a.m. [00:01:24] That was sent to multiple agencies and media outlets. By the way, if you want to check out the police press conference that I'm referring to, this is literally the same information that was shared during that conference. Again, we don't know the specifics about who sent the threat [00:01:40] or what exactly they said. We do know that the threat was sent to multiple buildings, also to media, and that it was from someone living in Springfield. And by the way, look, I don't know [00:01:55] how much the claims about the gross smears about Haitians eating cats is playing into this because, again, we don't have all the details that we want to have. Hey, don't scroll away, come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to tight U power. [00:02:13] Our honest reporting. You do it at tight.com/team and we love you for it. But some migrants are saying that they're now living in fear because of these these fictional stories that are coming out about them. And that's obviously disgusting. It's awful. [00:02:29] Let's take a look. North Plainfield new contributor. This man. Too frightened to show his face or use his name, says coworkers at his construction job have repeatedly asked him if he eats cats. Vilas Dorseyville, who runs a community center for Haitians, [00:02:44] says many fled violence at home. I got a. Friend calling me, asking me if he has to leave because he's scared for his life. There are a number of Haitian immigrants that I talked to who were scared to even go on camera because they're worried that they're going to get harassed or targeted when they show their faces and tell people that they do not like these claims being spread. [00:03:03] The other thing that Velez told me is that there are a lot of people who want to see their futures and felt welcomed here, and now they're really thinking about moving and leaving and maybe going to Miami or New York, places that have long had Haitian communities. So right now, I mean, everyone's losing. [00:03:19] I mean, you've got bomb threats. You've got schools shutting down. In response to that. You have City Hall buildings closing and evacuating. As a result of that, you have the, you know, Haitian population there living in fear. I mean, what is this solving this isn't solving anything. [00:03:34] - This is terrible. - Yeah. So, look, I understand towns that are concerned. Hey, this was a small town. About 59,000 people, 10 to 15,000 Haitians move in over a series of years, by the way. Again, like, you get the sense that they're all illegal immigrants. [00:03:49] No, that's not true. A majority the majority are perfectly legal. They work in local neighborhood businesses, warehouses, etc. So. And there's so much demagoging. Sorry to interrupt you, Jake, but I talked about this a little yesterday, in case you missed it. [00:04:05] When it comes to Haitian migrants, the reason why Jake says legal is because there's been a program in place since 2010, after the big earthquake in Haiti that grants Haitians temporary protected status, so they're able to come in legally after applying [00:04:22] for temporary protected status. Yeah. So look, I get it. I in some ways, not politically, but like, as a matter of nature, I'm conservative. I'm very nostalgic. I love the past. I don't want things to change. So in my in the town that I grew up in, when they started knocking down some [00:04:39] of the woods and put up a giant Walmart, I hated it, right? - I mean, I'd. - Hate that too. - Yeah. - And so there's change in different ways. And so and here I'll give you an example that's racial. But so you can see that this isn't just about race. So in Turkey, there's a lot of, immigrants that have come in from Afghanistan [00:04:57] and Syria, and the Turks hate it. Okay. Not all of them, but a lot of them do. Okay, so but those are fellow Muslims there, you know, and Turks are not Arabs or Afghans, but they're in the same neck of the woods. Right. And they're all a lot of them look similar, especially the Syrians. [00:05:14] But they go, no, we don't want them here. Why? Because it's change. So yeah, you could say that was racial and this was racial, but it happens all across the world. It's the change that that sometimes makes people uncomfortable. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. The world is constantly changing okay. [00:05:30] And so we've got to change along with it. And we've got but so if we want to have a debate about, hey, should we still have that policy for Haiti? How much legal immigrants should we let in? Those are good rational debates. While we love the Haitians, while we love the people from all across [00:05:46] the world that made this country great, that's the way we should handle this. But when the right wing comes in and launches a political bomb, basically here several things happen when they leave the scene. The the problems don't leave. So the Haitians in that community, as you saw from that one guy, [00:06:03] but I guarantee you it's almost all of them are hearing from their neighbors, their colleagues, their coworkers. Are you eating cats? Are you eating dogs? And once it gets to the kids, you can't get it out of the kids heads, right? Because the kids don't have as much checks. And once they hear it, it's for the God knows how long. [00:06:19] They're going to think that Haitians eat cats and dogs. And it's gross. It's gross demagoguery against immigrants. And then JD Vance, not talking about as much, but in a tweet, threw in the one where he basically admitted the story was false. Right. So even if it is false, he threw in. Oh yeah, but they're diseased. [00:06:37] This is gross. It's horrible stuff. Then you add on layer on top of it the bomb threats. So look, right wingers, I know you're going to catch feelings, but my job is to tell the truth. This is disproportionately right wing because there's a culture of violence and cultural weaponry on the right wing. [00:06:54] So does it happen on the left wing? Sometimes? Of course, the legendary Bernie Sanders fan who shot, you know, one of the Republicans at a softball field, right? They always come back to the same example because it's one of the very, very few examples from the left. Right. But the overwhelming majority of those cases are right wing. [00:07:10] That's not bias. It's reality. Why? Because they constantly talk about Second Amendment remedies. A tyrannical government has a right to do whatever I want. Okay. No, you don't know. Do you think you got the Second Amendment remedies against the tyrannical government? Yeah. If they declared martial law and they rolled out the tanks, which, by the way, [00:07:28] Trump considered at a three hour meeting about it after he lost the election. If Trump did it or Biden did it, I look, that's we're in a crazy scenario at that point, okay, that's tyrannical government. Your local official in Springfield, Ohio, is not tyrannical government. [00:07:43] And when you call in a bomb threat, you're not just doing it to the local officials. They called it into the schools. And then they got to clear out all the schools. And the parents are a mess. The kids are nervous that they're going to die. And what did that do? Oh, yeah. I thought, oh, yeah, I'll show them. I'll do a bomb. I'll threaten violence. Violence is the answer. [00:08:00] No it's not. Violence means you're a coward and a loser. You lost the debate. I don't mean Trump, Harris. I mean the debate over the issue. So you're resorting to threat, either violence or threats of violence, because you're intellectually not capable of engaging in a dialog. [00:08:17] So you go to violence. Yeah. And what's also incredibly frustrating is there are real concerns out of this community, not about pets being eaten, but about, you know, limited resources, an overwhelmed, you know, health care system there because the town was set up for a smaller population. [00:08:35] And, you know, it's a small town, blue collar town that needs more support. So a debate I think is fine as long as it's a debate about possible solutions for the legitimate concerns in that local community. But the problem with throwing this kind of bomb, by the way, political, [00:08:53] political bomb into an issue like this is you end up with no solutions at all, because rather than focusing on the actual substantive matter at hand, the focus is on this disgusting, salacious story involving people eating cats. [00:09:10] - That's not true. - Yeah. Last two things I'll say on that is, number one, if you saw an unverified video online, it doesn't mean you have evidence because the most famous one that they refer to, the woman, they're like, oh, look at this. A mentally deranged person eating cats. She's not Haitian. [00:09:26] She's not. The video never said she was Haitian and she doesn't. That video wasn't out of Springfield, Ohio. Like none of it. So guys, what happens is and this is a reality, if a left winger does this and sometimes it will happen, but they'll get driven from the public square. Okay. But right wingers do this all the time. [00:09:43] They'll take a video like that they know is not a Haitian person they know is not from Springfield, Ohio, but on top of it on on Twitter or wherever else they'll write, oh, Haitians are eating cats and dogs. Look at this from Springfield, Ohio. And the average person that watches it actually thinks it's a Haitian from [00:09:59] Springfield, Ohio, because the right wing guy who showed you that video is a liar. He's lying to you on purpose to get you riled up and to hate immigrants. So for God's sake, don't think that you have evidence. Please do your just a smidge of homework. Just use rational thinking for a second. [00:10:18] And then finally, if you're a right winger, you're not moved by any of this. I don't care, I want it. I bet they do anyway. I bet Trump advances there. But guys, since you're factually incorrect and know the Republicans in the area say you're incorrect, the cops in the area say you're incorrect. You're incorrect in every imaginable way. [00:10:36] Do you not realize you lose all credibility to Anna's point? Now, who's going to have a debate with a bunch of loons talking about eating cats and dogs? Well, you instantly lost the debate. Now, nobody's going to do anything about any immigration problem anywhere, because [00:10:51] the minute anybody brings out a problem, they're going to be like, oh, yeah, I bet you think they're eating cats and dogs. Woo hoo! Woo hoo! - Because you clowned yourself. - Yeah. It makes any legitimate claims seem like they're not credible, because the same person making the legitimate claims is also making illegitimate claims [00:11:08] and outrageous claims that are unfounded. So it's. Anyway, it is a pretty disastrous story. I hope everyone in Springfield is safe. 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