A resurfaced video of a Springfield, OH, resident warning of “pretty horrid things occurring to domestic animals” has gone viral on social media.
The clip from a Springfield City Commission meeting in March 2024 – more than five months before cat-eating allegations began – features one resident expressing concerns over the town’s influx of Haitian migrants.
“Our traditions laws and culture is 180 degrees different from what they’re used to,” the resident, who has not been named, told the commission. “One of the things I’ve heard that bothered me very much – I’ve actually had quite a few people contact me here lately – is some pretty horrid things occurring to domesticated animals in the neighborhood. We’ve had some stuff in the park that… again, they’re being taken advantage of for reasons other than…”
The resident was cut off by the commission, with one councilmember saying they had “heard about it too”.
Many on social media noted that the reports, from six months ago, were disputed in the ABC presidential debate on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Others called for fellow commentors to share the story.
