Springfield, Ohio, has taken legal action against a neo-Nazi group, alleging that its members were responsible for last year’s threats and chaos linked to the city’s growing Haitian immigrant population.
On Thursday, the city, along with Mayor Rob Rue and other plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Dayton against the Blood Tribe, its leaders Christopher Pohlhaus and Drake Berentz, and seven unidentified members.
The lawsuit accuses the group of “engaging in, and inciting, a campaign of harassment and intimidation, motivated by ethnic and racial hatred, against those who supported Springfield’s Haitian community in the face of Defendants’ racist attacks.”
