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TWO PEOPLE DIED yesterday and another was hurt in a stabbing on a Portland light-rail train after a man yelled racial slurs at two young women who appeared to be Muslim, one of whom was wearing a hijab, police said.
Officers arrested a man yesterday afternoon who ran from the train, The Oregonian reported. Police were still working last night to identify the man and the people who were attacked.
Before the stabbing the assailant on the train was ranting on many topics, using “hate speech or biased language,” and then turned his focus on the women, police Sergeant Pete Simpson said.
“In the midst of his ranting and raving, some people approached him and appeared to try to intervene with his behavior and some of the people that he was yelling at,” Simpson told The Oregonian. “They were attacked viciously.”
One person was dead at the scene and another died at a hospital, Simpson said. The third person was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
It wasn’t clear why the man was yelling, Simpson said.
“He was talking about a lot of different things, not just specifically anti-Muslim,” Simpson said.
Police don’t know if the man has mental health issues or if he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time.
The attack happened on a MAX train as it headed east. A train remained stopped on the tracks at a transit center which was closed while police investigated.
Evelin Hernandez, a 38-year-old resident of Clackamas, Oregon, told the newspaper she was on the train when the man began making racist remarks to the women.
A group of men tried to quiet him and he stabbed them, she said.
Simpson said the women understandably left the scene before police were able to talk with them but that they would like to hear from them to help fill in what happened.
“It’s horrific,” Simpson said. “There’s no other word to describe what happened today.”
Millions of Muslims marked the start of Ramadan yesterday, a time of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts.
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Hey resident journal drumpfters, what have you got to say about this
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Classy
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: I think you might have jumped the gun , Did he stab the muslim woman ? No , was he only yelling abuse at the muslims ? No , were the men who were murdered muslims ? probably not .
I wonder if TYT will try blame the I.R.A on this one .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CrOcg7O-M&t=4s
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: By the sounds of it the bloke isn’t well the head. But you can insert your own biased narative to support your opinions if you like. Sure isn’t that what this comments section is for anyway.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Not sure what your point is but hopefully this will shut you up. Note the date of the article, if you’re capable of doing so.
https://www.google.cl/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/fbi-hate-crimes-muslims.amp.html
An inevitable reaction to your pandering to Islam. Something we’ve always warned about!
@Clever Jake: You alt-lefties blaming Trump every time a Muslim or more gets attacked? This blame game is getting more boring and you know what?…you’re the one who gets more depraved each passing day as your comments say all about you.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: what have you got to say about clinton supporters dragging two elderly trump supporters out of their car, robbing them and beating them.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Get lost, you jihadi hugger & a traitor to democracy.
@Clever Jake: Look up the dictionary! :)
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: From your allies at BumbleF*ck: According to his posts, he was a passionate Bernie Sanders supporter who later supported, but did not vote for, President Trump.
Kek.
@John Flanagan: what an ugly person you are.
@Deborah Behan: So what? *Yawn*
@John Flanagan: Trump set the tone which gives consent to this type of behavior; so yes he must take some of the blame
It turns out, he was apparently a Bernie Sanders supporter.
http://www.kgw.com/news/crime/max-stabbing-suspect-is-a-self-proclaimed-white-nationalist/443585889
When will Bernie Sanders take responsibility for inspiring his supporters to commit such horrible acts?
@Methodical Insanity: I couldn’t give a Damn who he supported but you’re deliberately leaving the little detail of who he supported in the election out
@Dave O Keeffe: It’s irrelevant because the point I’m making is that this guy was already a vocal white supremacist before Trump’s rhetoric, so it’s idiotic to blame his actions to Trump.
Why is this international news? How often do us newspapers cover irish stabbings?
@Ian: Well the only reason it’s on here is to try and cause a reaction. 2 muslim women were mentioned in the story, that’s enough for the journal .
Two key witnesses are allowed leave the scene of a double murder, why? has the narrative been made to fit?
Blame Trump and his retoric, there’s no excuse for killing anyone drink or drugs are not an excuse.
@Mick McGuinness: No blame the pos that murdered two innocent people.
@Mick McGuinness: I realise Trump is terrible, but when you try to blame every single thing on him, you’re not helping the anti-Trump argument.
@Mick McGuinness: because if Obama was still the US president or if Clinton was US president some nutter wouldn’t have acted like a nutter and stabbed people……. Riiiiiiiiiiight
@Mick McGuinness: Look I’m no fan of Trumps , but I still don’t get how you can blame Trump , has there also been an increase in incidents of men grabbing womens private parts , because he definitely shot his mouth off on that one .
@Clever Jake: *Yawn*
@Clever Jake: I was nearly going to click on your link and then I seen huffingtonpost , that goes in the same spam box as the likes of Buzzfeed
@Clever Jake: He was probably outraged at the level of manspreading on the seats
@Mick McGuinness: My flight was cancelled today. Fu*king Drumpf eh? Is there nothing he won’t ruin.
“It’s important that we remember that though this is a tragic event, that this man is not representative of racism, which is an ideology of peace. The majority of racists are peaceful people, who have integrated into our society. This attack has absolutely nothing to do with the peaceful teachings of racsim. The killer was a mentally ill lone wolf, who had hijacked this peaceful ideology, for his own nefarious deeds. The real victims of this incident, are the normal racists, who will have their peaceful ideology dragged through the mud by this incident. It’s likely that normal people seen in public with swastika tatoos, white hoods, or skinheads, will be unfairly discriminated against, because of this incident.
#NotAllRacists”
The Islamophobic chickens have come home to roost. The relentless anti-Muslim racist comments we see on The Journal daily are no doubt the type that inspired this attack. There can be no doubt that Europe is starting to reflect anti-Semitic Germany in the 1930′s now.
@Tariq Ibn Ziyad: The US definitely id
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