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Springfield Has Cut Police Radio Access As City Descends into ‘Absolute Turmoil,’ Says Police Chief of Nearby Town
American Greatness ^ | 26 Sep, 2024 | Debra Heine

Posted on 09/27/2024 6:05:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber

An Ohio police chief says his access to Springfield’s police radio frequency was cut off after the beleaguered city became a political lightening rod over its Haitian immigrant crisis.

Tremont City Police Chief Chad Duncan told Blaze News’ Julio Rosas that Springfield has fallen into “absolute turmoil” since being inundated with up to 20,000 Haitian nationals, and said the lawlessness is spreading to nearby towns, including his own. Tremont City is located approximately eight miles north of Springfield.

Springfield has attracted national media attention in recent weeks over reports that some of the Haitians were stealing and eating pets and waterfowl, but residents say a more pressing issue has been their reckless driving.

Tensions between the Haitian population and native Springfield residents have been increasing since August of 2023, when a Haitian driving without a US license caused a school bus to roll over, injuring 22 children and killing 11-year-old Aiden Clark.

One Springfield resident estimated that there are four to five accidents a day caused by the Haitian immigrants, who are somehow able to drive around town without understanding basic traffic laws.

“The Haitians just don’t know our laws. They are causing accidents all the time. They just need to learn the laws of the road, they need schooling,” said Robyn Stultz, a 32-year-old mother whose pick-up truck hit by by a Haitian driver after he had made an illegal turn at an intersection. “My kids stay at home 95 percent of the time because the roads aren’t safe with these Haitian drivers,” the mother told the New York Post.

In December, Springfield grandmother Kathy Heaton was struck and killed by a Haitian immigrant driving with an expired license while she was collecting her garbage cans. Prosecutors declined to charge the 38-year-old driver, the Post reported.

Chief Duncan told the Blaze that the immigrants are often not licensed to operate vehicles, but Springfield appears to be protecting them from facing any real consequences for their reckless driving.

“People that shouldn’t be driving, they’re out there and they’re allowing them to drive,” Duncan remarked.

Duncan told Rosas about a recent traffic stop in Tremont City involving a Haitian national going 44 mph in a 25 mph zone.

“He didn’t even have a license,” he said, adding that it was the second time over a two-week period that he pulled the driver over so he had the individual’s car towed.

Duncan told Rosas that he didn’t think Springfield police would have towed the vehicle in that instance, and speculated why he thought that was the case.

“If you get two misdemeanors, you are subject to be deported,” he explained.

Duncan also said that his access to Springfield’s police radio frequency was cut off after the city was thrust into the media spotlight over the Haitian influx.

“We were able to hear them on the radio. They have decided to go silent. We don’t know what’s going on in the city,” Duncan said. “That happened the day they brought the State Troopers in to help them out.”

When asked why he believes Springfield Police shut off communications, Duncan speculated that it was to avoid accountability for their actions.

“When no one can hear what you’re saying, they don’t know what you’re doing so they don’t have to answer for it,” he explained.

Duncan noted that there was recently a threat at a Springfield school that he was unable to hear over the radio.

“I just caught wind of it from another chief that’s right next to the city,” he said.

Duncan told the Blaze that he thinks that the city’s leaders should have handled the influx of Haitian nationals differently.

“If they had taken the time, instead of worrying about the elites lining their pockets, and just took the time, this could have went so much smoother and been so much more beneficial to everybody involved,” Duncan stated.

When asked how he thinks the situation will turn out, he responded, “I really don’t know what the end result will be. But right now, it’s not good.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: coverup; haitians; ohio; police; springfield
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1 posted on 09/27/2024 6:05:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

What did the people who organized this think would happen?


2 posted on 09/27/2024 6:05:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

“What did the people who organized this think would happen?”

They’d make money.


3 posted on 09/27/2024 6:06:31 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: MtnClimber
I wonder if the Website is still up?


4 posted on 09/27/2024 6:07:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber
What did the people who organized this think would happen?

Anarchists want anarchy.

5 posted on 09/27/2024 6:09:11 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

David Muir at ABC still a smug bastard in his fact checking?

And that cackling idiot, as Border Czar how about she personally apologize to the American citizens suffering under her incompetence.


6 posted on 09/27/2024 6:09:53 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: MtnClimber

Protect that voting block at all costs.


7 posted on 09/27/2024 6:10:44 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
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To: 1Old Pro

“Out of chaos, comes order.” - Nietzsche

(And no, I’m not Howard Johnson)


8 posted on 09/27/2024 6:10:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber
Solution for Springfield is known...



Move to Shelbyville while you can!
9 posted on 09/27/2024 6:11:10 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: MtnClimber

Tim Walz would say this is just neighborliness.


10 posted on 09/27/2024 6:12:34 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: MtnClimber

How did they get Driver’s Licenses? The WHOLE purpose is to have a Mail-In Ballot with a name and address, for the Steal.


11 posted on 09/27/2024 6:13:08 AM PDT by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")
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To: MtnClimber

How did they get Driver’s Licenses? The WHOLE purpose is to have a Mail-In Ballot with a name and address, for the Steal.


12 posted on 09/27/2024 6:13:32 AM PDT by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")
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To: HombreSecreto


"I want 10,000 tough guys, and I want 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher! And here's how I want them arranged: tough, soft, tough, tough, soft, tough, soft, soft, tough, tough, soft, soft, tough, soft, tough, soft!"

"Sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power..."

"Of course I have. You ever try going mad without power? It's boring. No one listens to you."
13 posted on 09/27/2024 6:13:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

Obama’s plan to destroy America is coming together!


14 posted on 09/27/2024 6:14:51 AM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: MtnClimber

“They just need to learn the laws of the road, they need schooling,” said Robyn Stultz

Take them into your home, dummy.


15 posted on 09/27/2024 6:15:56 AM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: MtnClimber

Building a Haitian colony in America was the dumbest idea ever.


16 posted on 09/27/2024 6:17:10 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
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To: Made In The USA

“Border Czar”

I believe the Haitians are flown in.


17 posted on 09/27/2024 6:17:17 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Kamala: "understand that some people need more, so we all end up in the same place, right?”)
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To: MtnClimber

They can’t have really gone silent, they are using different frequencies or some sort of encryption. There HAVE to be ways of intercepting the transmissions.


18 posted on 09/27/2024 6:19:45 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: MtnClimber

BUT, Weren’t we told this is all a conspiracy theory thought up by the evil, crazed, wacko Trump supporters? Will we soon find out they actually have been eating pets?


19 posted on 09/27/2024 6:22:43 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: MtnClimber

Why do you think what is occurring isn’t exactly what they wanted? It’s the most obvious outcome.


20 posted on 09/27/2024 6:23:24 AM PDT by Clean_Sweep
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