An advocacy group has accused the former president and his running mate of egging on violent threats and harassment against Haitians

Haitian Bridge Alliance, a nonprofit that provides immigrants with legal and social services, has filed paperwork with Clark County Municipal Court in Ohio, laying out the various laws that Trump and Vance have broken. Ohio law allows private citizens to ask for criminal charges to be filed, and that’s precisely what’s happening here.

For week, presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his running mate have been spreading the racist lie that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are stealing and eating people’s pets. Now, a Haitian nonprofit organization in Springfield has decided to fight back by filing criminal charges against them.

Republican presidential and vice-presidential nominees Donald Trump and JD Vance are facing criminal charges and an arrest request related to their weeks-long false claims that Haitian immigrants are stealing the pets of Springfield,

The charges come after Trump and Vance claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets in the Ohio town.

Community in Springfield, Ohio, says it is using private-citizen right to file charges after Trump and Vance repeatedly make false claims about pets being eaten

Guerline Jozef of the Haitian Bridge Alliance is using an Ohio law that allows private citizens to file criminal charges.

In its lawsuit, the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a group that advocates on behalf of immigrants from Haiti, noted that the Republican presidential ticket has spread lies that have resulted in bomb threats,