Apparently some guy started ranting and raving at two young Middle-Eastern women on the MAX train, because they were wearing hijabs, as it approached the Hollywood stop. A couple of citizens tried to calm him down when he pulled out a knife. Two persons are dead and at least two wounded.
If you ask me this is a terrorist attack too.
I heard the sirens heading to the scene and there where a lot of sirens.
1 killed in stabbing on MAX train as man directs slurs at women in head scarves, witness says
A person was killed in a stabbing on a MAX train when passengers tried to intervene as a man directed racial slurs at young women wearing head scarves, a witness said.
Two other people were injured, police said. One person was in custody, they said.
Police haven't said what spurred the attack, but Evelin Hernandez, a 38-year-old Clackamas resident, said she was on the train when a man was making racist remarks to the women.
A group of men tried to quiet him, she said, and he stabbed them.
KATU just reported TWO people are dead, not one.
Saturday, May 27, 2017 · 2:13:14 AM +00:00
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The man was ranting about many things, using "hate speech or biased language," and at one point focused on the young women, Simpson said. Police don't know the women's ages and want to talk to them. They left the scene, he said.
The passengers who intervened were then "attacked viciously," Simpson said. One good Samaritan died at the scene and another at the hospital, he said.
Saturday, May 27, 2017 · 2:28:44 AM +00:00
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Oregonian: “It's not clear if the suspect was on drugs or had a mental illness or both, Simpson said.”
When a crazy Muslims commits a terrorist attack in America it is religious radicalism; when crazy Christians commit terrorist acts against Muslims, it’s ‘no true Scotsman.’