Ted Wheeler says the city stands with and supports its
immigrant community after the fatal stabbing of two men who tried to intervene
during the racial abuse of Muslim girls on a train. Wheeler goes on to say
“there is too much hate in the world right now and far too much violence” and
blames the current political climate for spreading bigotry
Portland attack: Donald Trump called
on to make statement about double murder
Veteran journalist Dan Rather leads a
chorus of people calling on the president to acknowledge the heroism of
Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Rick Best
Bonnie Malkin
@bonniemalkin
Monday 29 May 2017 03.22 BST Last modified on Monday 29 May
2017 04.06 BST
Pressure is mounting on the US president, Donald Trump, to
make a comment on the racist attack in Portland, Oregon that left two men dead.
Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, and Rick Best, 53, were
fatally stabbed on Friday while intervening to stop a racist attack on a Muslim
teenager on a commuter train.
The pair have been honoured as heroes by Portland’s mayor
and the FBI, but the president has remained silent, despite tweeting 10 times
on Sunday on topics ranging from healthcare to fake news.
Pleas are now mounting on social media for Trump to make a
statement on the attack, which was carried out by a suspected white
supremacist.
Dan Rather, the veteran American journalist, led the charge
on Facebook, calling on Trump to acknowledge the “brave Americans who died at
the hands of someone who, when all the facts are collected, we may have every
right to call a terrorist”.
Rather wrote in an emotional post that although the story
“may not neatly fit into a narrative you pushed on the campaign trail and that
has followed you into the White House”, the men were “not killed by an
undocumented immigrant or a ‘radical Islamic terrorist’”.
“This ‘extremism’ may be of a different type than gets most
of your attention, or even the attention in the press. But that doesn’t make it
any less serious, or deadly,” he wrote.
Rather finished his post by noting that Portland might not
be on the president’s radar because it is a liberal city, but “it is still an
American city. And you are its President”.
By Sunday night the post had had 370,000 likes and 8,7000
comments. His tweet linking to the Facebook post had been liked 15,000 times.
Rather’s sentiments were echoed by scores of Twitter users
who were dismayed by the president’s failure to speak about the double murder.
Tony Posnanski
(@tonyposnanski)
Trump's tweets today...
4 About Fake News
1 Congratulating a man who assaulted a reporter
1 About Europe trip
0 Denouncing Portland attack
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Brian Klaas ✔
@brianklaas
Trump tweeted 2x today celebrating a candidate that
assaulted a journalist but has said nothing yet about the 2 heroes murdered in
Portland.
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Shannon Watts ✔
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Donald Trump has yet to mention Portland heroes, a
23-year-old and a Vet, who gave their lives to protect Muslim women from an
extremist. https://twitter.com/fbiportland/status/868607540086530048 …
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Peter Beinart ✔
@PeterBeinart
Call me crazy but had a Muslim killed two white Christians
in Portland I suspect our president would have said something
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Meanwhile, one of the teenagers who Best and Namkai-Meche
stepped in to protect from the attack has paid tribute to the men. Destinee
Mangum, who was travelling with a Muslim friend when the attack began, said the
men had saved her life.
“They lost their lives because of me and my friend, and the
way we looked,” she told KPTV in Oregon. “I just want to say thank you to them
and their family, and that I appreciate them. Without them, we probably would
be dead right now.”
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