CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY. >>IT IS AN UNFORTUNATE SITUATION TARGETING THE HAITIA IMMIGRANTS AS EATING PETS OR DOGS SO WE DO NOT HAVE THAT IN OUR CULTURE. >>A HAITIAN COMMUNITY ACTIVIST IN SPRINGFIELD SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THOSE FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT PEOPLE IN HIS COMMUNITY, EATING PETS AND WILDLIFE, HE THANKS THE CITY'S MAYOR AND POLICE FOR ALSO REJECTING THOS CLAIMS SAYING THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO ANY OF THE REPORTS WE'VE TOLD YOU THIS WEEK ABOUT HOW SPRINGFIELD IS IN THE POLITICAL SPOTLIGHT AND FRONT AND CENTER IN THE HOT BUTTON ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION. >>AND OF COURSE, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR DAYS NOW, DESPITE THE CLAIMS BEING CALLED OUT AS FLAT OUT FALSE. IT'S SOMETHING A NUMBER OF REPUBLICAN LEADERS HAVE CALLED OUT THIS WEEK INCLUDING FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, A BIG PART OF IT HAS TO DO WITH A 91 CALL MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA AS A WITNESS CLAIMS TO SEE IMMIGRANTS CATCHING GEESE IN THE CITY. NO IT HAPPENED IN AUGUST. >>TODAY, POLICE THERE RELEASED THAT CALL TO ABC SIX. >>I SEE A GROUP OF HAITIAN PEOPLE. THERE WAS ABOUT FOUR O THEM. THEY ALL HAD GEESE IN THEIR HAND, AND I SAW THAT. I' LIKE, YEAH, THIS HAS GOT TO BE REPORTED. >>HOW MANY GEESE DID THEY HAVE >>THEY EACH HAD ONE. >>ALL RIGHT, LISTEN TO THIS ACCORDING TO THIS REPORT, THE CALLER COULD TELL THEY WERE HAITIAN BECAUSE HE HEARD THEM SPEAKING CREOLE WE REACHED OUT TO THE CALLER. HE DID NOT WANT TO TALK TO US ON CAMERA, BUT SAID POLICE AND ODNR FOLLOWED UP WITH HIM. WE'VE REACHED OUT TO ODNR TO SEE IF A REPORT HAS BEEN FILED WE HAVE YET TO HEAR BACK THE CLAIMS BEING MADE ABOUT HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IN SPRINGFIELD HAVE PASTORS ACROS THE AREA COMING TOGETHER TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT WHAT IT'S DOIN TO THE COMMUNITY. >>OUR STEPHANIE DUPREY KICKS OFF OUR TEAM COVERAGE WITH MOR ON THEIR MESSAGE. >>WELL, NEARLY 20 PASTORS WERE HERE THIS AFTERNOON ADDRESSING SPRINGFIELD BEING IN THE SPOTLIGHT, AND EACH PERSON WHO SPOKE WAS DEBUNKING ALL OF THOSE RUMORS, SAYING THAT IMMIGRANTS EATING WILDLIFE AND PEOPLE'S PETS IS JUST SIMPLY NOT TRUE. MANY PEOPLE SPOKE THIS AFTERNOON AND THE WHOLE PRESS CONFERENCE WAS MORE ABOU SENDING THE MESSAGE OF LOVE AN WELCOMING IMMIGRANTS AND REALL JUST ANYONE TO THE AREA. AND WHILE THEY DID PLEAD FOR MORE RESOURCES TO HELP MAINTAIN SO MANY PEOPLE, THEY ALSO HAD EMOTIONAL RESPONSES ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE CALLING MISINFORMATION WE ALSO HEARD FROM A LEADER WITHIN THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY HERE IN SPRINGFIELD >>NO, THEY ARE NOT EATING CATS AND AS OUR GOVERNMENT SAID DOGS. WE HAVEN'T SEEN ONE ACCOUNT OF THAT AND LET ME ASSURE YOU THAT IF THAT WAS HAPPENING HERE IN OUR CITY I WOULD HAVE RECEIVED COMPLAINTS ABOUT IT >>PEOPLE, HIGH RANKING PEOPLE IN POWER SHOULD TRY TO CONTROL THE NARRATIVE THEIR RHETORIC, BECAUSE WHAT THEY SAY CAN AFFECT AN ENTIRE COUNTRY CAN AFFECT A COMMUNITY, CAN CAN AFFECT MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE ESPECIALLY A VULNERABLE GROUP OF PEOPLE SO WE BELIEVE THAT AND WE BELIEVE IN HUMANITY. WE BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN DO BETTER. >>AND AFTER THE PRESS CONFERENCE, THE GROUP HELD A PRAYER AND THEN WAS CALLING ON STATE AND NATIONAL LEADERS FOR