According to reports, the rumour about immigrants from Haiti eating cats and dogs started with the arrest of a woman in Canton, about 170 miles northeast of Springfield, who was arrested in August ...

She is an activist who helps fellow Haitians in Springfield, and when we talked to her via Zoom, she says this is a bad situation "Why would we be happy about accusations of eating dogs and cats?" ...

Johnson continued: "You know this depression is gonna be so great, we're gonna be the ones eating the cats and the dogs ... unfounded rumors spread that Haitian migrants had been killing pets ...