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		</div><h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">Jeremy Christian will spend the rest of his life in prison, a judge in Portland, Oregon, ruled on Wednesday </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">The 38-year-old white supremacist was convicted of fatally stabbing two men who came to the aid of two black women he was harassing on a Portland commuter train, in May 2017 </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">He received two life sentences for the murders of Ricky Best and Taliesin Namkai-Meche</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">Christian was also sentenced to more than 25 years for the attempted murder of Micah Fletcher, as well as, the attack on Demetria Hester</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">On May 26, 2017, Christian was threatening a pair of female teenagers, both black &#8211; Walia Mohamed and Destinee Mangum and &#8211; on Portland&#8217;s MAX Light Rail commuter train </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">The main target was of the unprovoked, demented tirade was Mohamed, a Muslim immigrant from Somalia. Mangum was protecting her friend </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">The first person to come to the girls&#8217; aid was a white male commuter, Micah Fletcher, who suffered stab wounds to the neck, but survived </span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">Two other white men, 23-year-old Taliesin Namkai-Meche and Ricky Best, 53, intervened and were fatally stabbed by Christian</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;"> A day before the stabbings, Christian verbally and physically attacked another black woman, Demetria Hester, on another commuter train</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">On Tuesday, as Hester read her impact statement in court, Christian yelled: &#8216;I should have killed you, b****!&#8217;</span></strong></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #614c4c;">The defendant was convicted of the murders in Feb., but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed sentencing</span></strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-349826" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Jeremy-Christian-in-court-5.jpg" alt="Jeremy Christian in court 5" width="666" height="398" /></span>Uncontrolled 38-year-old career criminal turned supremacist Jeremy Christian, was handed two life sentences in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday. He is seen [left], in a Portland courtroom on Tuesday yelling at one of his assault victims, Demetria Hester: &#8216;I should have killed you, b***h!&#8217; Murder </strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">A judge has sentenced a white supremacist to spend the rest of his life in prison for <a href="https://konniemoments.com/2017/05/27/white-supremacist-jeremy-joseph-christian-jailed-in-fatal-portland-train-stabbing-of-three-people-two-of-them-fatal/">fatally stabbing t</a>wo other white men who came to the defense of two black women he threatened on a commuter train in Portland three years ago.<br />
Jeremy Christian was sentenced on June 23, 2020 for the fatal stabbings of two men and the serious wounding of a third man on a MAX train in Portland, Oregon three years ago.<br />
Multnomah County Circuit Judge Cheryl Albrecht sentenced Jeremy Christian, 38, to two life sentences after listening to statements from Christian’s victims or victims’ relatives Tuesday and Wednesday, <a class="class" href="https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/06/live-updates-max-train-murderer-jeremy-christian-will-be-sentenced-after-more-victims-testify.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">The Oregonian/OregonLive</a> reported.<br />
Showing no remorse, Christian, via a video feed from a remote room in the courthouse, said, &#8216;I do regret that two people died, but I do not regret my actions.<br />
Taliesin Namkai-Meche, 23, and 53-year-old veteran Ricky Best, died from knife wounds to the neck, and Micah Fletcher survived after Christian also stabbed him in the neck on May 26, 2017.<br />
Christian boarded the MAX Light Rail train in Portland during the evening commute and began shouting racist, anti-Muslim and xenophobic slurs at the two Black teenagers, prosecutors said.</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong> <span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Taliesin-Namakai-Meche-left-and-Ricky-Best-right-1.png?resize=620%2C409&;ssl=1" alt="Taliesin Namakai-Meche (left) and Ricky Best (right) 1" width="850" height="561" /></span>victims: Taliesin Namakai-Meche [left] and Ricky Best [right] were killed while trying to stop Christian’s racist tirade against two young black women in May of 2017. In Feb this year, the guilty verdict was announced to a packed courtroom, including victims and their relatives</strong></h6>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-349834" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Walia-Mohamed-left-and.-Destinee-Mangum-right-1.jpg" alt="Walia Mohamed [left] and. Destinee Mangum [right] 1" width="732" height="492" />Targets of racist abuse: Walia Mohamed [left], 20, a Somali immigrant, was the target of Jeremy Christian&#8217;s racist tirade which preceded the killings. Mohamed was riding with her friend Destinee Mangum [right], 18, who describes her fright after seeing Micah Fletcher stabbed in the neck by Jeremy Christian aboard the light rail in Portland, Oregon on May 26, 2017</strong></h6>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-349820" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Demetria-Hester-2.jpg" alt="Demetria Hester 2" width="921" height="605" /></span>Christian&#8217;s vile outburst in court on Tuesday came after his victim in an earlier attack, Demetria Hester [photo], told her tormentor: &#8216;When you die and go to hell, I hope you rot&#8217; </strong></h6>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-349839" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Jeremy-Christian-listens-to-his-sentencing-2.png" alt="Jeremy Christian listens to his sentencing 2" width="700" height="396" />Jeremy Christian, via a live video feed from the Multnomah County Detention Center, watches victim statements during his sentencing hearing, the <span style="font-size: 10.72px;">histrionics</span> he displayed in court the previous day forced the judge to remove him from the courtroom</h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">One of the targets of the racist tirade, Walia Mohamed, was an immigrant from Somalia and wore a Muslim headscarf. She was with her friend, Destinee Mangum.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Another young black woman, Zhada Allen, testified that she was on the train that day and was scared for her life.<br />
Some witnesses said Christian in his outburst made a slicing motion across his neck and mentioned decapitating people.<br />
As his tirade continued, Christian grabbed Namkai-Meche’s cellphone as he tried to film and threw it to the ground.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Authorities say Fletcher stood up to intervene and got into a shoving match with Christian, who was taunting the men to &#8216;do something&#8217; to stop him.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Christian then took out a 4-inch folding knife and stabbed Fletcher and Namkai-Meche, prosecutors said.<br />
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</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Authorities say he also stabbed Ricky Best, who was standing nearby.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Jurors in February found Christian guilty of the deaths of Namkai-Meche and Best.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">In addition to the two homicide charges, Christian was convicted of attempted murder for stabbing Fletcher and assault and menacing for shouting slurs and hitting a Black woman, Demetria Hester, with a bottle on another light rail train the day before the stabbings.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">The judge sentenced him to more than 25 years for those crimes.</span></p>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Before sentencing, the victims and their relatives urged the judge to never lock Christian away from society for good, stressing the need for systemic change in a world that doesn’t want to own up to the circumstances that allowed Christian to act on his beliefs unfettered.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Christian listened to his sentencing via a video feed from a remote room in the courthouse. He had to be removed from the courtroom on Tuesday after he yelled at victim Demetria Hester: &#8216;I should have killed you, b***h!&#8217;<br />
Hester had survived verbal and physical attack the day before Christian killed Namkai-Meche and Best.<br />
&#8216;In my case, the white supremacist got special treatment from the police. He didn&#8217;t believe me or the two TriMet supervisors,&#8217; Hester said about a cop who responded to the assault.<br />
&#8216;He refused to detain the assailant and he let him walk away knowing who he was. The officer asked me for my ID and treated me like I was the assailant because of my color.&#8217;<br />
Hester then told Christian: &#8216;When you die and go to hell, I hope you rot.&#8217;<br />
That&#8217;s when he began yelling violent threats at Hester, ripped off his face mask and shouted: &#8216;I should&#8217;ve killed you, b***h.&#8217;<br />
The outburst came about 30 minutes into the 11am session. Hester was the first of 15 people to read impact statements.<br />
Christian was not wearing handcuffs when he violently reacted. He was detained by Multnomah County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies and removed from the courtroom.<br />
&#8216;His behavior today was especially egregious so he has forfeited his right to be here during sentencing,&#8217; Judge Albrecht said.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-349808" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Jeremy-Christian-8.jpg" alt="Jeremy Christian 8" width="678" height="349" /><strong>&#8216;Shoot me&#8217; Christian is recorded on the dashcam telling police when he was about to be taken into custody after the murders</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The judge wanted victim impact statements to continue in his absence.<br />
However attorneys for Fletcher, who survived the train stabbing, and the family of Namkai-Meche, wanted Christian to have to hear statement and to see him while it was read.<br />
According to KATU 2 the judge was looking for a way to get Christian into another courtroom on a live stream.<br />
&#8216;I blame the system for creating and facilitating people like Jeremy,&#8217; Hester had said in her impact statement. &#8216;The police captured, not killed, a racist white supremacist known to the police.&#8217;<br />
Although the verdict was read in February, sentencing was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.<br />
As it resumed four months after the convictions, Hester took the opportunity to partially blame systemic racism for Christian being able to attack and kill people despite his hateful actions against her the previous day.<br />
Her statement of black women not being believed echoes what&#8217;s being said as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"> </span></p>
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Disturbing moment Portland stabbing suspect begs cops to shoot him</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-349801" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Brad-Kula-1.jpg" alt="Brad Kula 1" width="965" height="551" />During the Feb. 2020 double murder trial of Jeremy Christian at the Multnomah County Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, witnesses including Sgt. Brad Kula [photo], testified that Christian asked police to shoot him after the stabbings. Jeremy Christian was accused of stabbing Taliesin Namkai-Meche and Ricky Best to death on a MAX train and seriously injuring Micah Fletcher</h6>
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<div> <span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">&#8216;Police murder us all day, everyday… We will fight to dismantle this corrupt system. Our community is being victimized over and over again by the system and we are paying for it financially, physically, mentally and emotionally,&#8217; Hester said. &#8216;There is no help from the mayor, governor, congress, judge.&#8217;</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">In the days after the stabbing, photos and video surfaced showing that Christian had recently attended &#8211; and spoken at &#8211; a rally hosted by a far-right group called Patriot Prayer, whose periodic political events were already causing tension in the city.<br />
He was captured on camera making the Nazi salute while wearing an American flag around his neck and holding a baseball bat.<br />
On Facebook, his prolific posts slammed Portland as a place so politically correct that his right to free speech was constantly under assault.<br />
Those beliefs were front and center in the courtroom, too, when Christian told the judge on the first day of trial that he would wear his jail-issued blue uniform instead of a suit because to do otherwise would be like lying.<br />
&#8216;I don&#8217;t care how much time I spend in prison,&#8217; he said. &#8216;All I care about is the public gets to see and hear what happened on the train.&#8217;</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jeremy-joseph-2.jpg?resize=620%2C752&;ssl=1" alt="Jeremy Joseph 2.JPG" width="883" height="1071" /></span>Jeremy Joseph Christian [photo], went on a stabbing rampage aboard a MAX train on May 26, 2017, which left two people dead and one injured. He was arrested nearby the scene of the fatal stabbings shortly after</h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="" src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/jeremy-joseph-christians-board-of-mugshots.jpg?resize=620%2C338&;ssl=1" alt="Jeremy Joseph Christian's board of mugshots.JPG" width="796" height="434" /></span>No stranger to law-breaking: Jeremy Christian’s tendency to flirt with criminality is recorded on this board of arrest mugshots, spanning years</h6>
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<div><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">The jury had disregarded the argument of Christian&#8217;s defense attorneys Gregory Scholl and Dean Smith that their client acted in self-defense and felt threatened by Namkai-Meche and Fletcher.</span></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">An expert witness for the defense testified that Fletcher, in particular, escalated the situation by getting within 6 feet of Christian moments before Christian pulled out his knife.<br />
During trial, detective Michelle Michaels read from a transcript of Christian&#8217;s comments shortly after he was arrested.<br />
&#8216;There&#8217;s no way I can explain what happened,&#8217; he said.<br />
&#8216;Except both of those people would be alive if they´d kept their hands to themselves. Or got off the train or allowed me to have my free speech.&#8217;</p>
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White supremacist Jeremy Christian, 38, who fatally stabbed two men who came to the aid of two black female teens he was harassing on a Portland commuter train jailed for life
