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Macollvie Neel, editor of the Haitian Times, was ready to start her workday from home on Monday when her doorbell rang. What she thought might be a delivery turned out to be more than a half-dozen police officers.
“I looked and there were police cruisers outside my house,” Neel recalled Tuesday in an interview with CNN.
When she opened the door, Neel said officers explained that “someone had emailed an [organization] saying they had killed their wife for being racist toward Haitians at my address.”
The hoax report that sent officers rushing to her home, known as a type of swatting, left Neel feeling alarmed and worried for her safety as well as for the staff of The Haitian Times, where she serves as executive editor. But Monday’s incident is just the latest example of the threats and attacks she and her colleagues have faced since former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance amplified debunked conspiracy theories about Haitian immigrants in Ohio.
Springfield, Ohio, schools open Tuesday with increased security amid threats linked to false claims about Haitian immigrants
The Haitian Times, an online publication, has covered Haiti and the Haitian diaspora around the world since it was founded in 1999. With a newsroom of about 20 staffers and freelancers, the outlet has documented the flow of Haitians across the United States, beyond the traditional enclaves of New York, South Florida and Massachusetts.
Springfield, Ohio, was already on the...
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