Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A Haitian nonprofit in Ohio filed criminal charges Tuesday against former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, for "baseless fearmongering" in their unsubstantiated claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are "eating their neighbor's pets."

During Trump's presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, the former president amplified false, anti-immigrant rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets

The leader of a nonprofit representing the Haitian community invoked a private-citizen right to file charges Tuesday against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, over the chaos and threats experienced by Springfield, Ohio, since Trump first spread false claims about legal immigrants there during a presidential debate. The Haitian Bridge Alliance…

A Haitian nonprofit filed criminal charges against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance over false claims they spread against immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.

The Haitian Bridge Alliance alleges in the charges that “if anyone else had done what they have done, to the devastating effect experienced in Springfield,” charges would have already been filed.