Trump Supporter Whose Police Report Fueled Cat-Eating Rumor Found Pet In Basement Days Later: WSJ

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-who-made-haitian-cat-stealing-police-report-found-pet-at-home_n_66eaf106e4b00648275b86da

49 Comments

  1. MintBerryCrunchJr on

    As they desperately flail to defend bullshit cat eating claims, we should all recognize that the Trump boys murder leopards and smile with their dead bodies.

  2. The damage is done. I don’t care if she’s “sorry”. Tell that to the kids who are now afraid to go to school because of the bomb threats.

  3. OppositeDifference on

    >An Ohio woman whose police report was used to power racist rumors about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating neighborhood cats has admitted her pet was found in her home, just days after she reported her Haitian neighbors to local police.

    A Trump supporting racist who abuses police reports spreading harmful lies online? Color me…. whatever color denotes complete lack of surprise.

  4. Just think if this was a nuclear situation misinterpreted because Trump and his administration decided to accept internal bias and racism in making a claim or decision?

    Its just insane how much these people get away with. It should have shut down their chances already.

  5. Can we all please stop pretending that this (or any of GOP’s immigrant-based fear-mongering) has anything to do with facts?

    Anyone who is voting on this absolutely does not give a shit about what’s real and what’s factual. We have spent nine years in this “outrage —> disprove —-> re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-disprove” cycle, it does not move his vote an inch, and it is the literal definition of insanity to keep using the same pointless tactics.

    Those who get it get it, those who don’t never will. There is no mythical voter out there who becomes convinced the 379th time you fact-check something.

  6. CountryFriedSteak78 on

    So she filed a false police report?

    She can apologize all she wants, doesn’t erase that.

  7. ConsiderationWild833 on

    I’m so glad the police have time to respond to this emergency between tracking Democrats with yard signs. Why do they need guns? If they’re going to be petty and useless we could save a lot of money returning them to peace offices instead of cowards with guns

  8. Here’s the relevant text from the original WSJ article:

    >A Vance spokesperson on Tuesday provided The Wall Street Journal with a police report in which a resident had claimed her pet might have been taken by Haitian neighbors. But when a reporter went to Anna Kilgore’s house Tuesday evening, she said her cat Miss Sassy, which went missing in late August, had actually returned a few days later—found safe in her own basement.

    >Kilgore, wearing a Trump shirt and hat, said she apologized to her Haitian neighbors with the help of her daughter and a mobile-phone translation app.

  9. Note that this report is from the Wall Street Journal. If Rupert Murdoch is tired of your nonsense, it’s over. I suspect Fox will start giving this news the side eye soon, hoping it all goes away.

  10. This is like that episode of King of the Hill where Junie Harper got Halloween cancelled for the whole town because she thought satanists killed her cat, but actually she ran over it herself.

  11. As a cat owner, I could have told this lady that her cat was probably just taking a nap in some nook somewhere in the house. That’s usually what mine is doing when I can’t find him.

  12. She needs to be held accountable “I didn’t mean for this to happen” is not an excuse. IF YOU DIDNT MEAN FOR THIS TO HAPPEN THEN MAYBE THINK BEFORE YOU POST.

  13. Our cat went missing one time.

    I didn’t assume anyone ate them. We found her under the house a few days later.

  14. When you low key find out your a bigot because you blamed someone different from you and then you find that it wasn’t them. There should sincerely be a forced apology here.

  15. Republicans accuse black immigrants of eating pets; still confused why people think they’re racist.

  16. Yet again the power and ease that FB groups have in spreading bigotry and hate is plain to see.

    Zucks contribution to modern society really is without parallel.

  17. epicredditdude1 on

    What the fuck is wrong with Republicans. Their obsession with this idea that Haitians are eating cats is basically a mental illness at this point. Why can’t they let this go?

  18. Alone_Republic2471 on

    Trump and Vance are going to get people killed over this even though they know it’s a lie, Vance admitted it even
    They don’t care anything at all to gain power , lies , deceit, faking videos and rumors.
    Trump has no morals or compassion what so ever
    Who could vote for this monster for president

  19. LingonberryPrior6896 on

    How does one go from “my cat is missing” , to “my Haitian neighbors ate it”? Racism.

  20. ManufacturerThis7741 on

    She knew what she was doing. I’m betting the cat was never lost at all. She’s just another Carolyn Bryant Donham instigating a lynch mob for funsies and trying to walk it back.

    I hope the Feds charge her ass with a hate crime. This was incitement.

  21. It is now public record that Anna Kilgore of Springfield chose to accuse her Haitian neighbor of harming her cat, Miss Sassy, while Erika Lee of Springfield Ohio spread false rumor of Haitian immigrant community kidnapping and eating people’s pets.

    Unfortunately, that doesn’t help to stop the attacks on Springfield, nor does it help the falsely targeted Haitian community.

  22. I’ve had a cat that’s gone missing before. Never in my wildest dreams did I think somebody ate it.

  23. ArthichokeCartel on

    Let he among us who has never accused a minority population of eating their pet without checking their entire home cast the first stone!!!

  24. Imagine what a pitiful life you must have if your first reaction to a missing pet is to assume that your dark skinned Haitian neighbor ATE them. Obviously you know nothing about voodoo and sacrificing animals.

  25. StrangeBedfellows on

    Well, it’s not accusing someone falsely of rape, or yelling “fire” in a theater, but it’s definitely on the spectrum.

  26. I lost my bus pass and didn’t find it for days too but I didn’t think immigrants ate it as a matter of fact, that was the furthest thing from my mind. I did think rump stole it though, that was the first thing that came to my mind.

  27. Charge her for inciting panic and falsifying a police report , not kidding she has crippled a city with bomb threats