Springfield sues the neo -Nazi group that has solved the “torrent” hatred of Haitian immigrants

The city of Springfield, Ohio, filed a lawsuit with the neo -Nazi group known as the “Blood Tribe” on Thursday, accusing their members of pursuit False claims and racial tracks.

The Federal claim filed with the US District Court in Deiton claims that the Blood Tribe has launched a wide campaign that used emails, social media and physical intimidation to silence elected officials and private citizens who spoke on behalf of the Haitian.

Springfield Scarment eventually shed on a controversial US presidential race that ended with a candidate then Donald Trump states without evidence During the national television discussion that the Haitians “ate pets” their neighbors.

Springfield’s claim accuses blood tribes and its leaders for nourishing fear and anger that had been breaking life in the community and beyond for months. It requires uncertain losses for ethnic intimidation, threats, inciting violence, telecommunications claims and conspiracy for civil rights violations.

“The blood tribe and its members and partners have solved the flow of hated behavior,” the claim said.

Crossing the line from language to intimidation

Despite the fact that most of the speech is protected by the first amendment, Springfield’s claim claims that the members of the blood tribe have repeatedly moved the line from a protected language to intimidation that was so extreme that it violated the civil rights of their goals.

According to the lawsuit, the blood tribes were considered anyone who supported the Haitian community as a “traitor to the race” and allocated them for harassment.

The lawsuit said the group sent emails and left voice mail, threatening physical damage, postal bags designed to look like bombs published by addresses and other personal information about opponents aimed at assault rifles on the family, shouting races and used dating applications to send men who are looking for drugs and sex for people who opposed neo -Nazis.

The connection of the blood tribe to these threats was often not difficult, the claim notes, as members liked to demand a loan for claiming or boast about it in publications on social networks.

In one case, the threatening message of the voicemail ended with the words: “Love from the Blood Tribe!”

Otherwise, a suspicious bomb packet contained a note that says: “XOXO, Clood Tribe!”

The lawsuit said that the threats varied from the explicit – “I will kill you, I know where you live” – ​​to less straight, but still intimidating comments on social networks.

“We will see if you are still laughing in a few weeks,” someone wrote with a blood tribe in one of these publications on social networks. “Before that, girl, keep your lamps.”

The claim also binds 33 threats to bombs for blood tribe or other blood tribal. The threats of the bomb forced the evacuation of several public buildings last year and prompted the state police to accommodate officers in each school in Springfield.

“Bombs will be blown up within an hour or 2,” he read an email sent to city officials on September 12. “They will probably cause structural harm and kill someone inside.”

Haitian immigrants arrived on Springfield to work

Springfield became the center of the national immigration discussion at the beginning of last year, when the news began to cover their growing Haitian population, which was swollen by more than 10,000.

Most of these immigrants moved to Springfield after receiving a temporary protected status, which allowed them to legally live and work in the United States.

Springfield, once resided by large producers, has fallen on economic decline in recent decades and has been constantly losing the population. But when the pro-business campaign of city officials has attracted new employers to the city over the last few years, Thousands of Haitians came to look for a job.

They have a new small business and healthier tax base, as well as more stress on schools, housing and public services. Some in the community welcomed newcomers, while others complained that they prevail.

The rumors of the Haitians who eat pets, which later repeated Trump and his runner, J. Vance, were widespread on social networks and were strengthened by right -handed people, although police and city officials did not find evidence to support claims. Trump, now the president, after winning Kamal Harris’s Democrat in November, used claims to support his promise of the campaign to deport millions of immigrants.

Springfield’s claim claims that the leaders of the blood tribe, whom he identified as Christopher Polyus and Drake Berenz, perceived these falsehoods about the Haitians and greeted the opportunity to use tension in the community.

“The blood tribe coordinated” Hit “in Springfield to stop the alleged” invasion “of Haitian immigrants,” the claim said.

Neither Polehaus nor Berenz could be commented. Defammatia League, which represents Springfield in its legal case together with law firms in Chicago and Cincinnati tied both men with white Verkhoven groups in Ohio and other places.

In their first devastating action in the city, according to a lawsuit, the members of the Blood tribe appeared at the Jazz & Blues Springfield Festival “show guns by waving swastika flags and wearing appropriate red shirts, black pants and ski masks.”

A weeks later, the members of the group came to the meeting of the commissioners at the City Hall, where Berenz used the racial epithet, complaining that the city had taken over the Haitian.

Promise to “exterminate” Jews and minorities

The mayor of Springfield Rob Ryu, Assistant Mayor David Estropus and two city commissioners quickly became the goals of the blood tribe, according to the claim. All are plaintiffs in this case with several private citizens.

In September, about a dozen members of the Blood Tribe stood in front of the RJ house, wearing black face masks and wearing swastika flags. The men warned Ryu to “enjoy their rest now until we return,” said the claim, prompting Rue to put a loaded rifle near his front door to protect his family.

The claim states that other goals have experienced DOXING – the practice of publishing personal information on the Internet – and other acts of intimidation, including emails, voice mail and publications of social media that used racist language and threaten the consequences if they continue to support Haitian immigrants.

The screenshot of one such position, which was included in the lawsuit, discussed the “extermination” of Jews and unbroken people before hunting “any traitors such as this scanning.”

“I would have stopped her throat flat and gray with dogs on her without a single ounce,” the message said.

In addition to the threat and suffering of emotional problems, the lawsuit states that some whole blood tribes have made significant and sometimes expensive steps to protect yourself and their families. These measures included Windows Windows, alarm systems and touch key security.

Springfield’s claim asks for monetary losses to be determined after the trial. Similar civil lawsuits against the White Verkhovna and Extreme Right Groups were successful in the past, in some cases, they bankrupt with steep financial penalties.

Recently the judge of this week ordered the proud guys to give control of the group brand to the historic Black Church in Washington, the Colombia County, which was vandalized by its members.

This story has been updated to add video.

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: The claim is focused on the harassment of the Nazi group over the haitans in Ohio