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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2017
Portland mayor aims to nix free-speech rally
Wheeler fears
‘hatred’ at
Sunday event
By MARTHA BELLISLE
Associated Press
Portland
Mayor
Ted
Wheeler on Monday urged
federal offi cials and organiz-
ers to cancel a “Trump Free
Speech Rally” and other sim-
ilar events, saying they are
inappropriate and could be
dangerous after two men were
stabbed to death on a train
as they tried to help a pair of
young women targeted by an
anti-Muslim tirade.
Wheeler said he hopes the
victims will inspire “changes
in the political dialogue in this
country.”
It comes amid a wider
debate in the U.S. about the
First Amendment, often in lib-
eral cities like Portland and
Berkeley, California, and on
college campuses, where vio-
lent protests between far-right
and far-left protesters have
derailed appearances by con-
tentious fi gures.
Taliesin Myrddin Namkai
Meche, 23, and Ricky John
Best, 53, were killed Friday
as they tried to stop Jeremy
Joseph Christian from harass-
ing the women, one of whom
was wearing a hijab, authorities
say. Another man who stepped
in was seriously injured.
Christian’s social media
postings indicate an affi nity
for Nazis and political vio-
lence. He is accused of aggra-
vated murder, intimidation —
the state equivalent of a hate
crime — and being a felon in
possession of a weapon and
is scheduled to be in court
today.
The federal government
has issued a permit for the
free-speech rally Sunday and
has yet to give a permit for
an event June 10. The mayor
says his main concern was par-
ticipants “coming to peddle
a message of hatred,” saying
hate speech is not protected by
the Constitution.
A Facebook page for the
event says there would be
speakers and live music in
“one of the most liberal areas
on the West Coast.” It says it
will feature Kyle Chapman,
who describes himself as an
American nationalist and
ardent supporter of President
Donald Trump.
Chapman was arrested at
a March protest in Berkeley,
the birthplace of the U.S. free
speech movement in the 1960s
that has become a fl ashpoint
for the extreme left and right
since Trump’s election.
Free speech
The University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley, has been
criticized for canceling an
appearance by conservative
commentator Ann Coulter in
AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus
A sign of thanks rests against a traffic light pole at a me-
morial outside the transit center in Portland on Saturday.
People stopped with flowers, candles, signs and painted
rocks for two bystanders who were stabbed to death Fri-
day, while trying to stop a man who was yelling anti-Mus-
lim slurs and acting aggressively toward two young wom-
en, including one wearing a Muslim head covering, on a
light-trail train in Portland.
April and another by right-
wing provocateur Milo Yian-
nopoulos in February. It can-
celed Coulter’s speech amid
threats of violence, fearing a
repeat of rioting ahead of the
Yiannopoulos event.
Trump has condemned the
stabbing, writing Monday on
Twitter: “The violent attacks
in Portland on Friday are unac-
ceptable. The victims were
standing up to hate and intol-
erance. Our prayers are w/
them.”
Wheeler said he appre-
ciated Trump’s words but
stressed the need for action.
“I hope we rise to the
memory of these two gentle-
men who lost their lives,” the
mayor told reporters. “Let’s
do them honor by stand-
ing with them and carry-
ing on their legacy of stand-
ing up to hate and bigotry and
violence.”
The mother of one of the
targets of the rant said she was
overwhelmed with gratitude
and sadness for the strang-
ers who died defending her
daughter, 16-year-old Desti-
nee Mangum.
Mangum told news sta-
tion KPTV that she and her
17-year-old friend were rid-
ing the train when Christian
started yelling at them. She
said her friend is Muslim, but
she’s not.
“He told us to go back to
Saudi Arabia, and he told us
we shouldn’t be here, to get
out of his country,” Mangum
said. “He was just telling us
that we basically weren’t any-
thing and that we should kill
ourselves.”
The teens moved toward
the back of the train, prepar-
ing to get off at the next stop.
“And then we turned
around while they were fi ght-
ing, and he just started stab-
bing people, and it was just
blood everywhere, and we
just started running for our
lives,” Mangum said.
Micah
David-Cole
Fletcher, 21, was stabbed
in the neck. His girlfriend,
Miranda Helm, told The Ore-
gonian that he was recovering
his strength in the hospital.
Telephone messages left
at the home of Christian’s
mother Sunday and Monday
were not returned.
Bigoted rants
A day before the attack,
cellphone video confi rmed
by police Sgt. Pete Simpson
shows Christian using exple-
tives as he rants about Mus-
lims, Christians and Jews on a
train. At one point, he threat-
ens to stab the driver of the
train Thursday, according to
video from a passenger posted
by TV station KOIN.
Simpson says police also
are investigating an incident
that day involving Christian
and a black woman on the
train, but he didn’t immedi-
ately respond to emails seek-
ing additional details.
Christian served prison
time after holding up employ-
ees at a convenience store
with a gun in 2002, court
records show. He went back
after pleading guilty in 2011
to being a felon in possession
of a fi rearm. He was behind
bars again in 2013 for violat-
ing a condition of his release,
according to court records.
Tomica Clark told The
Oregonian that she has known
Christian since elementary
school. She said she was sur-
prised to hear people call
Christian racist. Clark is black
and said Christian had many
black friends.
“He never disrespected
me,” Clark said, but added
that he changed after he got
out of prison.
“Prison took the real him
away,” she said.
Bellisle reported from
Seattle. Associated Press
writer Joselyn Gecker in San
Francisco contributed.
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