"Illegal immigrants in Ohio are eating cats and dogs"

Question

During the Trump and Kamala debate, Trump made a wild claim that "Illegal Immigrants" are eating cats and dogs in Dayton Ohio. After digging into those claims almost every single news source went directly to the scenes in Dayton to discover the truth and as CBS News confirms there have been zero incident reports of anyone, let alone Immigrants eating any animals.

Comments

According to the title "Donald Trump Vs Kamala Harris I 'They're Eating The Dogs' I Yes, He Really Said That I Explained", the readers are able to make assumptions that this source is about Trump making statements that immigrants from Haiti are eating domestic pets. The claims made by Trump are false and we can see this from the article I have found "Trump repeats baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets". This article uses true and factual evidence and we are able to observe this from how its confirmed by BBC verify and BBC News. Additionally, BBC mentions where that claim on Haitian immigrants originated from and why that claim is false. Searching up the Author, Merlyn Thomas and Mike Wendling, I was able to see that the authors are verified BBC journalists and have numerous reliable articles published further proving that this article is true.

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Nice job in breaking down why this claim is not credible or reputable. This is a very hot claim right now and is all over social media and the news, so it is important to look deeper to figure out whether or not this event really happened. Great job!

Answer 1

The claim about illegal immigrants eating pets in Ohio is altogether not true. Law enforcement officers- including the Dayton Police-have denied the allegations on multiple occasions. As a matter of fact, the fellow that started this rumor had apologized and retracted his statement as out and out false. Now, this unfounded rumor represents the dangers of misleading information and the need to examine such information from credible sources. It is important in our lives to rely only on fact reporting and stop fueling harmful stereotypes with baseless accusations.

Links of sources 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-police-dispute-new-allegations-immigrants-are-eating-pets-in-dayton/

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3278563/ohio-woman-behind-pet-eating-rumours-spread-donald-trump-admits-claims-are-false

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l4g6g5d97o

Answer 2

This is an inaccurate claim. There have been many articles proving that there is no evidence of immigrants eating cats or dogs in Ohio, such as  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-police-dispute-new-allegations-immigrants-are-eating-pets-in-dayton/. The person that initially made the claim has apologized for the false statement.