Posted on 09/13/2024 5:47:39 PM PDT by TomServo
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.
“It just exploded into something I didn’t mean to happen,” Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday.
Lee recently posted on Facebook about a neighbor’s cat that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee she thought the cat was the victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors.
Newsguard, a media watchdog that monitors for misinformation online, found that Lee had been among the first people to publish a post to social media about the rumor, screenshots of which circulated online. The neighbor, Kimberly Newton, said she heard about the attack from a third party, NewsGuard reported.
Newton told Newsguard that Lee’s Facebook post misstated her story, and that the owner of the missing cat was “an acquaintance of a friend” rather than her daughter’s friend. Newton could not be reached for comment.
Lee said she had no idea the post would become part of a rumor mill that would spiral into the national consciousness. She has since deleted the Facebook post.
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Someone got to her.
Just ignore the myriad photos and police reports about Haitians eating pets and geese and listen to the media tell you they are lies.
Check her bank account for recent deposits.
Someone got a talking to
Do these people tell their facebook friends every time they go to the bathroom?
Most of her best friends are Haitians.
Why isn’t NBC investigating why a small city is being inundated by Haitians instead of trying to prove Trump wrong?
They can find this person in no time. Still no clue who brought cocaine into the Whitehouse or who ordered the Trumo hit. So fake.
"I deny all connection with this scurrilous rumor that was based on a post I allegedly made about a story that was clearly false. I repent and am filled with sorrow that I caused distress and harm to any Haitian people, who are all of course wonderful and peaceloving and would never, ever eat a cat........
Is that enough? Can I please go now?? Please let me go...."
Springfield resident, James, says the stories are true. He covers a lot more than cats and geese.
Yup.
Too late, the cat’s out of the bag.
Sure, just like they tell their FB friends every time they eat a meal. And they take pictures of the meal.
Taking a dump really isn't -that- different to them. And they take pictures of... never mind....
Yeah. The DOJ. They would have charged her with “election interference”.
Attempting to dispel the truth is difficult, but the lying media is paid to do it. We need a word for “fact checking obscure the truth”
There are police reports.
Her retraction is meaningless.
That. 👆👆👆
Don’t we already know why Springfield is inundated with Haitians?
She likely made that claim due to rumors she’s heard.
Haitians do kill cats and eat them in Haiti. They also kill small animals for voodoo purposes.
They are a problem, and now this situation has saturated conversation all over the country. True or not no longer matters, the issue of setting up pocket colonies of foreigners all over the country is being pointed out, along with criminal illegals and gangs.
The left desperately wants this to stop being a major topic of conversation, and immediately.
This is from 2012:
“Les principales viandes de consommation en Haïti sont : le poulet, le poisson, la chèvre, le bœuf et les porcs. Toutefois le chat reste la viande préférée des amateurs de l’alcool, et cela sans discussion.”
https://nelsond.mondoblog.org/haiti-quelle-viande-doit-on-consommer-le-chameau-ou-le-cheval/
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