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Shocked Oregonians honor victims of ‘hate speech’ attack

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (APP/AFP): The stunned
residents of Portland, Oregon have rallied around the families of two men who were brutally murdered and another who was seriously hurt while trying to help a pair of young women being harassed on a train by a man who took them for Muslims.
All three men were stabbed viciously in the throat by a suspect
police identified as Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35. A known local white supremacist, he was arrested after onlookers chased the blood-soaked man as he tried to flee and then pointed him out to police.
The attack unfolded in just 10 minutes on a crowded train full of
people heading off for the three-day Memorial Day weekend, a time for somber tributes to those killed in war but also the celebratory, if unofficial, beginning of the summer vacation season.