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Amaryllis

(9,523 posts)
Sat May 27, 2017, 11:00 AM May 2017

2 Men Killed On Portland Train After Trying To Stop Anti-Muslim Rant, Police Say

This...is my city. I live here. It has its share of racism, but Portland is a very liberal city. I am shaken.


2 Men Killed On Portland Train After Trying To Stop Anti-Muslim Rant, Police Say
Police arrested a 35-year-old man following the stabbing deaths.
By Lee Moran , Andy Campbell

Two men have been killed after trying to stop a man abusing two women on a train because they appeared to be Muslim, say police in Portland, Oregon.

Police arrested Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, of North Portland, following the stabbing deaths on a MAX train at the Hollywood Transit Station at 4:30 p.m. Friday. They charged him with offenses including two counts of aggravated murder over the incident, which occurred hours before the start of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.

Witnesses said at least one of the women the suspect targeted was wearing a hijab, and it appeared the abuse was religiously and racially motivated.

“He said, ‘Get off the bus, and get out of the country because you don’t pay taxes here,’” Evelin Hernandez, a passenger on the train, told KATU-TV.

Three men intervened amid the suspect’s “ranting and raving,” Portland police spokesman Pete Simpson said during a news conference. “They were attacked viciously by the suspect.”

The suspect’s mother, Mary Christian, told HuffPost early Saturday that she had no idea that her son might have been involved.

“It’s scary,” she said. “I can’t imagine he would do anything like this, unless he was on drugs or something. He’s been in prison, he’s always been spouting anti-establishment stuff but he’s a nice person I just can’t imagine.”

Police said one of the men who intervened died on the train. The other died later in hospital, while the third man was treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Officers detained Christian soon after he got off the train, police said. They were unable to interview the women, however, as they’d already left the area.

Video at link

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/portland-attack-commuter-train_us_5929362ce4b053f2d2acaf56?aj&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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2 Men Killed On Portland Train After Trying To Stop Anti-Muslim Rant, Police Say (Original Post) Amaryllis May 2017 OP
Donald Trump's America! The creature! n/t RKP5637 May 2017 #1
Really?? Docreed2003 May 2017 #2
Radicalized domestic terrorist - seems obvious to me! TheDebbieDee May 2017 #4
Would the police have left him alone if he were an Islamic terrorist athena May 2017 #3
His mother clearly is in big time denial. raccoon May 2017 #5

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
2. Really??
Sat May 27, 2017, 11:20 AM
May 2017
He’s been in prison, he’s always been spouting anti-establishment stuff but he’s a nice person I just can’t imagine.”


And you can't see how that might lead to this???

athena

(4,187 posts)
3. Would the police have left him alone if he were an Islamic terrorist
Sat May 27, 2017, 12:00 PM
May 2017

screaming "Die Christians" rather than "Die Muslims, die fake Christians, die Jews"? Just watch the video at the link. (I can't seem to embed it properly.)

Two lives could have been saved, and one person would have avoided serious injury, if the police had taken this guy's threats seriously.

Excerpt:
Police said they were familiar with him but they did not see him as a threat to public safety, adding that he suffered from mental illness. His mother told HuffPost Saturday that she didn’t believe he was mentally ill.

raccoon

(31,088 posts)
5. His mother clearly is in big time denial.
Sat May 27, 2017, 02:21 PM
May 2017

His mother said:

“I can’t imagine he would do anything like this, unless he was on drugs or something. He’s been in prison, he’s always been spouting anti-establishment stuff but he’s a nice person I just can’t imagine.”

Yeah, right!

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