Trump condemns fatal stabbing of good Samaritans in Portland

Mr Trump tweeted: “The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable”.

The tweet at 7 a.m. Monday was sent on his presidential account @potus. Mayor Ted Wheeler said at a news conference that Best was an Army veteran and a city employee. Her daughter is African-American and was with a friend who was wearing a hijab, she said.

Muslims in Portland thanked the community for its support as they raised money for the victims of a deadly attack on a train by an Islamophobic white supremacist.

The president’s acknowledgement of the incident comes after a number of high-profile pleas for him to speak out against the violence and intolerance, including one penned by Dan Rather.

Destinee Mangum, one of the girls Christian was abusing, told Fox 12 Oregon KPTV: “I just want to say thank you to the people that put their life on the line for me. The courage of the people who stood up for them is a reminder that we as a city need to stand together to denounce the hate”, Eudaly said. The third man – 21-year-old Micah David-Cole Fletcher – is recovering from his injuries in a Portland hospital.

“This story may not neatly fit into a narrative you pushed on the campaign trail and that has followed you into the White House”, Rather said in his post. “I hope you can find it worthy of your time to take notice”. Nor do I think other people should.

When police caught up with him, Christian aimed the gun at himself before he was shot and injured by police, Kaplan said.

A Facebook page for the Trump Free Speech Rally says there would be speakers and live music in “one of the most liberal areas on the West Coast”.

On Monday he tweeted a tribute to members of the armed forces who had been killed on active service for US Memorial Day.

Three men who intervened were stabbed. Home of the free, because of the courageous.

The ACLU of OR, in a tweet on Monday, said: “The government can not revoke OR deny a permit based on the viewpoint of the demonstrators”. “Today we remember the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in serving”.

“I implore you to condemn this atrocious act of terror in the strongest possible terms”, Blumenauer wrote in a letter to Trump.

As much of the country was mourning the sacrifice made by those men, and anxious over the implications of a horrific act of racist violence in a city as famously liberal as Portland, Oregon, Donald Trump tweeted over 20 times.

Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, was booked into the Multnomah County Jail on charges of aggravated murder, attempted murder, intimidation in the second degree, and felony possession of a restricted weapon. He is scheduled to to appear in court on Tuesday. Christian is a felon known for hate speech. She soon moved to the other side of the train, after which he allegedly went on and on about Christians, Muslims, and “f-king Jews”.

Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi said that the attack showed an increase in hate-crimes against religious and ethnic groups during the past year.