White terrorist gets served for the fatal attack on a Portland light rail train in 2017. |
He killed Taliesin Namakai-Meche and Ricky Best on a Portland MAX train in 2017.
The survivor Micah Fletcher was in the courtroom with the large gash wound on his neck.
He managed to wrestle the machete out of the hand of this terrorist. The terrorist tried to flee the train but was soon apprehended by the law without a bullet fired.
The verdict was announced to a packed courtroom, with the victims and victims' relatives filling one side. The terrorist's mother sat on the other side.
One of the women verbally attacked by the terrorist tells her story. |
A judge last year dismissed charges of aggravated murder -- which carried a potential DEATH card.
The stabbings' racial undertones shocked Portland, which prides itself on its liberal and progressive reputation but also grapples with a racist past that included limits on where Black families could live and a Neo-Nazi community so entrenched that the city was once nicknamed, "Skinhead City." The deaths come weeks after a Black teen was run down and killed by a white terrorist in a Portland suburb convenience store parking lot -- a case that grabbed the junk food media's attention.
Three lives were affected by this cold-hearted terrorist. The terrorist stabbed three. Two died. |
He said in the courtroom, "I don't care how much time I spend in prison. All I care about is the public gets to see and hear what happened on the train."
Now the terrorist is facing a possible DEATH card with the conviction. His lawyers can appeal the sentence.
The 2017 Portland train attack occurred on May 26, 2017, when this terrorist fatally stabbed two people and injured a third, after he was confronted for shouting racist and anti-Muslim slurs at two teenage black girls, Destinee Mangum and Walio Mohamed, on a MAX Light Rail train in Portland, Oregon.
Two of the victims, Ricky John Best of Happy Valley, a technician for the City of Portland's Bureau of Development Services, a U.S. Army veteran and a father of four children, and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche of Portland, a recent university graduate, died following the attack.
The third victim, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, survived serious wounds.
The attack was widely condemned by the Portland community, politicians, and civil rights groups, some of which said it represented a rise in hate speech, racism, and Islamophobic incidents in the United States.
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