The father of an 11-year-old boy killed in a car crash involving a Haitian immigrant said he wishes the driver had been a white man so nobody could use his son’s death to spread hatred against immigrants.
“You know, I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. And I bet you never thought anyone would ever say something so blunt. But if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone,” Nathan Clark said at a city commission meeting in Springfield, Ohio.
Clark stood alongside his wife, Danielle, while speaking at the meeting.
“Their son Aiden Clark was killed and more than 20 students were injured when a minivan driven by unlicensed migrant Hermanio Joseph struck his school bus in August 2023,” Daily Mail noted.
“They make it seem as though our wonderful Aiden appreciates your hate, that we should follow their hate. And look what you’ve done to us. We have to get up here and beg them to stop,” Clark continued.
“Using Aiden as a political tool is, to say the least, reprehensible” he said.
Clark said Republican politicians used his son’s death for “political gain.”
“Bernie Moreno, Chip Roy, J.D. Vance, and Donald Trump, they have spoken my son’s name and used his death for political gain,” Clark commented.
“This needs to stop now. They can vomit all the hate they want about illegal immigrants, the border crisis, and even untrue claims about fluffy pets being ravaged and eaten by community members. However, they are not allowed, nor have they been allowed to mention Aiden Clark from Springfield, Ohio,” Clark continued.
“To clear the air, my son, Aiden Clark, was not murdered. He was accidentally killed by an immigrant from Haiti,” he added.
“The parents of Aiden Clark say they wish he had been killed by an older white man, instead of a Haitian, because they say his death has been used to spread hate towards migrants. Aiden’s father asks for Republicans to stop using his death for political reasons,” The Blaze wrote.
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The parents of Aiden Clark say they wish he had been killed by an older white man, instead of a Haitian, because they say his death has been used to spread hate towards migrants. Aiden’s father asks for Republicans to stop using his death for political reasons. pic.twitter.com/jzlzm5EI9q
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) September 10, 2024
The Blaze reports:
The issue of road safety has been long talked about in Springfield since the arrival of around 20,000 Haitians under the Biden-Harris administration. In nearby Tremont City, locals told Blaze News they no longer go to Springfield to shop and instead head to towns up north.
“The accidents we’re having around here can be prevented if everybody would get on the same page, all law enforcement, and start towing these vehicles. I know it seems like we’re singling people out, but we do it the same no matter what race, nationality, creed, doesn’t matter,” Tremont City Police Chief Chad Duncan said about towing cars of drivers who don’t have a license.
Mark Sanders, whose daughter witnessed the crash that killed Aiden, said, “There are things that can be prevented. That guy should not have been in the country. He shouldn’t have been driving. He was working for a company, local, that was actually supplied to them.”
“‘I wish my son had been killed by a white person instead of the Haitian who killed him.’ Imagine saying those words,” Jack Posobiec commented.
“I wish my son had been killed by a white person instead of the Haitian who killed him”
Imagine saying those words
— Jack Poso
(@JackPosobiec) September 11, 2024
Per Daily Mail:
Some 15,000 Haitians have arrived in the city of about 59,000 people since 2020 under a Temporary Protected Status program, with some residents saying they have strained public services.
Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday he doesn’t oppose the Temporary Protected Status program and will send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city.
Ohio has already provided additional resources to Springfield to help with education and training for drivers, to pay for more vaccines and health screenings in schools, and to enhance translation services, explained DeWine. But he’s taking additional action.
‘These dramatic surges impact every citizen of the community, every citizen,’ he said, noting additional influxes are occurring in Findlay and Lima, Ohio. ‘Moms who have to wait hours in a waiting room with a sick child, everyone who drives on the streets, and it affects children who go to school in more crowded classrooms.’
On Wednesday, the Ohio State Highway Patrol will be dispatched to help local law enforcement with traffic issues that officials say have cropped up due to an increase in Haitians unfamiliar with U.S. traffic laws using the roads.
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