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2 Fatally Stabbed on Portland Train After Trying to Calm ‘Ranting’ Man, Police Say
nbcnews.com ^ | 5/27/2017 | Phil Helsel

Posted on 05/27/2017 7:06:10 AM PDT by rktman

Two people were fatally stabbed after trying to intervene when a man was spewing "hate speech" on a Portland, Oregon train on Friday, police said.

The suspect, who was not immediately identified, was captured south of the Hollywood transit center shortly after the 4:30 p.m. stabbing on a MAX light rail train, Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: communitymember; escalation; freedomofspeech; hatespeech; jeremychristian; murderer; portland; speech; thoughtcrimes
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Hmmmmm. Someone needs to give nbc the new guidelines for violatin laws in portlandia. I'm sure they'll post a correction changing "suspect" to "community member". Just wondering what the hate speech line is about. Was the 'community member' speaking badly about liberals? Guess no one on the train was armed other than the 'community member' huh.
1 posted on 05/27/2017 7:06:10 AM PDT by rktman
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I wonder if there is some device allowed in Portlandmania where folks could protect themselves with, like, you know ...


2 posted on 05/27/2017 7:09:09 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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Actually, that’s the Seattle Police Dept. guideline. I can understand the mistake. Not much distinction between the two.


3 posted on 05/27/2017 7:12:44 AM PDT by Right Brother
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If you’re packing do you have to let him stab someone b4 shoot to kill?


4 posted on 05/27/2017 7:13:32 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: rktman

Thanks for the post rktman but you can include a lot more if you manual excerpt so we don’t have to go to NBC news.

It looks bad, he’s a white male, cursing at Muslims. Will be cast as Trump inspired I’m sure.


5 posted on 05/27/2017 7:17:25 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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To: rktman

It was anti-Muslim hate speech by a guy named Christian.


6 posted on 05/27/2017 7:18:11 AM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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7 posted on 05/27/2017 7:21:32 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Rennes Templar

8 posted on 05/27/2017 7:21:36 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: rktman; DIRTYSECRET
Portlandia is so consumed with liberalism and its escalating dystopia that they have no idea how to civilly deal with even the smallest of issues.

A good example is the two white female entrepreneurs who were driven out of business because they learned to make burritos in Mexico and brought the method back with them.

First of all they are women - that would have given them carte blanche just a few years ago. But now cultural appropriation is the new weapon against society so that is what was used to take them down.

The two women are partners in business and possibly more; could they have played the lesbian card and would it have trumped the new culture card? It is hard to say.

What might come of all this if they say they "self identify" as Latinas when they are making burritos? ... or is that card already played out too?

I'll bet they can't even safely choose a bathroom in Portlandia.

9 posted on 05/27/2017 7:23:11 AM PDT by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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Well, looking at the pic in follow up post, he certainly looks like a typical Trump supporter. Even if he isn’t, I’m sure Trump’s hate filled talk about evil losers caused the guy to go wack a doodle. You know, like body slamming a reporter.


10 posted on 05/27/2017 7:24:20 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Trying to sort out what happened.

So someone was engaged in free speech, was attacked by two ‘liberals’, and defended himself?


11 posted on 05/27/2017 7:33:27 AM PDT by PAR35
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Looks like Eugene on the Walking Dead.


12 posted on 05/27/2017 7:33:55 AM PDT by Right Brother
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Shave and a crew cut and he could pass for a deputy sheriff.


13 posted on 05/27/2017 7:34:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Somebody takes a knife out and threatens people with it you can claim you were in fear of your life, etc etc.


14 posted on 05/27/2017 7:34:26 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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He did not initiate the physical altercation it appears, so self defense may be an possibility.


15 posted on 05/27/2017 7:36:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Right Brother

Respect the hair game.


16 posted on 05/27/2017 7:37:19 AM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: The people have spoken

It was anti-Muslim hate speech by a guy named Christian.

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You need to CAREFULLY read the story again and get help translating the following paragraphs from someone who speaks ‘modern media’:

Some of Christian’s speech was allegedly directed at two young Muslim women, one of whom was reported to have been wearing a hijab, but Simpson said the witnesses reported that the suspect’s comments were not exclusively anti-Muslim.

“According to some preliminary witnesses statements, he was kind of spewing hate about a lot of different things,” Simpson said. Those who tried to intervene in the situation tried to de-escalate the encounter, he said.


17 posted on 05/27/2017 7:46:43 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: PAR35

That’s what it sounds like. How do you try to “calm” someone who is ranting?
Did they try to physically shut him up?


18 posted on 05/27/2017 7:50:19 AM PDT by piasa
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To: BenLurkin

Would not go that far, but if all he was doing was ranting and not actually approaching anyone then I would have moved away, not said anything, and kept alert. Ridden NYC subways all my life. Those are the rules.


19 posted on 05/27/2017 7:55:01 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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A person with a knife can be as dangerous as a person with a handgun in close quarters especially.


20 posted on 05/27/2017 7:58:58 AM PDT by fireman15
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