Springfield, Ohio, continues a neonazi group, saying that it intimidated Haitians

The City of Springfield, Ohio, Which Was Singled Out by Donald J. Trump and Jd Vance During the Presidential Campaign With False and Outrageous Claims About Haitian Immigrants, Has Sued a Neo-Nazi Group That Helped Draw National attention to the small city in the First place.

The trial, filed Thursday before the Federal Court, was brought by the mayor, Rob Rue, as well as several commissioners of the city and residents of Springfield. He indicates that Blood Tribe, a four -year neonazi group, began an intimidation campaign focused on Haitian immigrants in the city. He led last summer in “a torrent of hateful conduct, including acts of harassment, threats of bomb and death threats” against the inhabitants who spoke in support of Haitian residents.

The complainants quote the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which makes it a crime to refuse their civil rights and accuses the blood tribe of ethnic intimidation and incitement to violence. With the legal support of the Anti-Diffimation League, the complainants request punitive damages and compensation for the thousands of dollars spent for additional security while the Blood Tribe campaign took place.

The trial does not mention Mr. Trump, who falsely affirmed during a presidential debate in September that the Haitian immigrants from Springfield ate dogs and cats, nor Mr. Vance, who did not urged his “Patriotic colleagues” To “keep the memes of cat flowing”. But the costume says that Christopher Pohlhaus, the chief of the blood tribe, “joyfully took credit for increasing notoriety” of false affirmations on Haitians in the city, “boast on social networks that the blood tribe had “ pushed Springfield in the public conscience of public conscience. ‘”

The trial did not appoint a lawyer for Mr. Pohlhaus, who could not be joined to comment.

In recent years, between 10,000 and 20,000 Haitians had come to Springfield, a city of around 60,000 in southwest Ohio, attracted by the substantial needs of the workforce of warehouses and businesses manufacturers of the region. While “the vast majority” of Haitians are in the country legally and were “welcomed” by the city, says the trial, the arrival of so many new arrivals in such a short time has brought a range of challenges, this which requires high demand from local hospitals, schools and housing.

In articles on his social media accounts last July, Blood Tribe described the arrival of many Haitians a “deed of demographic war”, which had “caused significant pressure on the good white residents of the city” . The costume invoices that the members of Blood Tribe, who were masked, armed and brandished swastikas, gathered in a local jazz festival and later outside the mayor’s home. This adds that the group has disseminated personal information from people who supported the Haitian community, in some cases, putting home addresses on websites that attracted men looking for drugs or sex.