Shocking new bodycam footage shows moment woman with ‘fur on her lips’ arrested for eating cat in Ohio

Police in Ohio have released gruesome footage of the incident, which could be the reason for Donald Trump’s remarkable claim that Haitian migrants are killing and eating their neighbors’ pets.

The claim created tension during Tuesday’s presidential debate, when the GOP candidate debunked rumors that Haitian newcomers to the city of Springfield were feasting on the city’s pets.

Police have now released bodycam footage of the only person known to have recently eaten a cat in the state: an American-born woman in a town 170 miles away.

Allexis Ferrell, 27, was found with “hair on her lips and blood on her hands” when police were called by shocked neighbors in the city of Canton on Aug. 16.

“Officers were able to determine that Allexis had struck the cat’s head with her foot and then proceeded to eat the cat,” they wrote in their report.

The bizarre footage was seen seconds after police arrived at the scene and saw ‘a female crouched on top of a cat that appeared to have its head bashed in and the female had her hands on the cat’.

Officers confronted Ferrell and ordered her to put her hands behind her back, at which point one of them remarked, “Does anybody have rubber gloves? She’s covered in blood.”

She doesn’t answer when asked for her address and read her Miranda rights. The officer warns a colleague to put a blanket in the backseat of their squad car because he’s dirty.

“Smile for me. Go ahead,” he says, holding up a camera, “Did you eat that cat? Did you eat him?”

She bares her teeth for the photo and shakes her head slightly, but says nothing.

“Why did you kill him?” he asks.

“I don’t know,” she says in a small voice.

“Get in. It’s ridiculous,” he says as he pushes her into the car.

The first claims of eaten pets in Springfield were made on July 30 during a City Commission meeting.

Angry residents used the forum to express their feelings about the 15,000 Haitians who have been granted temporary protection status since 2020.

“I really challenge you to come here and do something,” one angry resident said during the meeting.

“These Haitians are running through garbage cans, into buildings and overturning cars in the middle of the street.”

“They’re in the park, grabbing ducks by the neck, chopping their heads off and walking away with them. They’re eating them.”

An anonymous poster in a Facebook group for Springfield residents claimed that her “neighbor’s daughter’s friend” had lost her cat.

“One day she came home from work and got out of the car. She looked over to the house next door, where the Haitians live, and she saw her cat hanging from a branch, as if it were a deer being slaughtered. They were cutting the cat up to eat,” she explained.

Police and city officials in the city have been at pains to emphasize that there have been no credible reports of migrants harming pets.

But the rumors were amplified by Trump’s running mate JD Vance, before the former president himself aired them in his debate with Kamala Harris.

“In Springfield, they eat the dogs,” he told her. “The people that came in. They eat the cats.

‘They eat — they eat the pets of the people who live there.

“And this is what is happening in our country.”

When ABC host David Muir told him that no credible reports had been received by authorities, the ex-president insisted he had “seen people on television.”

“People on TV are saying my dog ​​was taken and used as food,” he added.

A Springfield police spokesman was among those who denied the claims.

“In response to recent reports of criminal activity by immigrants in our city, we want to make it clear that there are no credible reports or specific allegations that pets have been abused, injured or mistreated by individuals within the immigrant community,” he said Tuesday.

Canton police footage shows an officer turning to a group of bystanders after Ferrell is put into the squad car.

“Did you all see this?” he asks.

“No, we stopped and she was just lying there with..,” someone replies.

“Did you see her eat it?” he asks.

“Yes,” says one, “it was dirty,” adds the other.

‘She said she took the blood on her shoes and stamped it out. She stamped the head out.

“Well, if you kill a cat, you don’t go to the hospital, you go to jail,” the officer notes.

“Call animal control and ask them to come pick up this cat,” he mumbles into his radio. “He’s dead.”

Ferrell is being held in Stark County Jail on suspicion of companion animal abuse, a fifth-degree felony.

She graduated from Canton McKinley High School in 2015 and has a lengthy criminal history, including previous charges including cocaine possession, receiving stolen goods and child endangerment.

“The suspect in this case is not a Haitian immigrant,” said Dennis Garren, spokesman for the Canton Police Department. “She has lived in Canton her entire life.”

Her bail has been set at $100,000 and she is scheduled to appear before Stark County Judge Frank G. Forchione on Oct. 15 for a competency hearing.

She has entered a plea of ​​not guilty by reason of insanity.