The man accused of the brutal hate crime slayings of two people at the Hollywood Transit Center on Friday afternoon is a known local white supremacist.
Jeremy Christian, 35, was booked early Saturday morning on two aggravated murder charges, an attempted murder charge, two intimidation (hate crime) charges, and a felon in possession of a restricted weapon charge.
The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reported that the man “was on the MAX train yelling various remarks that would be best characterized as hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions. At least two of the victims attempted to intervene with the suspect and calm him down. The suspect attacked the men, stabbing three, before leaving the train.”
Witnesses told the police that he was harassing two women who appear to be Muslim. One was described as wearing a hijab. One of the men he stabbed died at the scene, one was pronounced dead at a hospital, and one is expected to survive.
Christian is a known right wing extremist and white supremacist. On April 29, Christian showed up to the right-wing “March for Free Speech” on 82nd Avenue in Montavilla with a baseball bat in an attempt to assault left-wing protesters. The bat was quickly confiscated by Portland police officers. He ranted how he was a nihilist. He’d soon yelled racial slurs (“fuck all you n*****s”) and gave the Nazi salute throughout the day. He yelled “Hail Vinland” throughout the day.
A few Portland police officers on April 29 appeared to be familiar with Christian, but not threatened by him. They claimed he had a head injury and was mentally ill.
Here’s my video of Christian, draped in a flag, arriving at the event.
Here’s another video. At the 25-second mark, he yells “fuck all you n*****s”. The right-wing rally organizers refused to let him in.
Shortly later, I asked him his name. I recognized the name and remembered that he posted on Facebook that he’d shoot police officers if they tried to disarm him (he was never arrested).
He later gave the Nazi salute.
Update: Christian has a criminal record that includes a host of felonies going back to 2002, when he was convicted of first-degree robbery and second-degree kidnapping. He also has a conviction for carrying/using a dangerous weapon from 2002.
His Facebook page is replete with anti-Semitic comments and other evidence of his views. Here are some examples.
Mayor Ted Wheeler, who was flying from London to Portland when the crime occurred, issued his first statement this morning:
“There is too much hatred in our world right now, and far too much violence. Too much of it has arrived here in Portland,” Wheeler said in a press release. “My heart goes out to the families of those who lost their lives, and to those who witnessed what happened. Thank you to our first responders, who provided aid, and police who captured the suspected killer. Now is the time, we must come together as a community and love one another. We must reject hatred and violence. We must seek justice.”
Did nobody consider his advocating shooting cops sufficient to warrant an investigation last month? https://twitter.com/xauenmurph/status/85…
Thank you Doug Brown for a well researched article…
It would appear that Christian’s fb page may now be removed? I couldn’t find it… shocking that fb didn’t ban him for the comments you have screen shots of.
Deepest respect and honour to the 3 men who stood up to him on the train and sympathy to the family/friends of the 2 he murdered. #TrueHeroes
“”There is too much hatred in our world right now, and far too much violence. Too much of it has arrived here in Portland,” “
Are you saying this guy is not from Potland, then? Where did he come from? Stop looking all over the world for the source of the problem. Our terror is homegrown.
He has extensive form, apparently. http://koin.com/2017/05/27/man-accused-i…
If you scroll down his fb page to February 17, a post and comments about James Zwerg suggests premeditation…
He is a confirmed domestic terrorist who verbally assaulted two Muslim women with intent of violence and killed 2 innocent men attempting to defend the Muslim women at the same time.
Yeah no one cares what a dude that can’t even spell “Barry” thinks.
He’s the face of half the country. That should scare us all.
Tilley was our nephew. He was an amazing young man who was doing great things with his life. He was excited about life! We are heart broken. STOP THE HATE!
@12 Why would anyone need to believe that? His hair was tied up at the rally in April and is down in his mugshot. You can see it in the video clips.
Why is there never any actual police presence on the MAX? The transit police are glorified private security guards whose primary responsibility is to harass teenagers and (primarily) women who forgot their passes in order to massively fine them and pad Trimet’s bottom line. In the meantime we have a host of sociopathic and psychotic pyschopaths like this douchebag terrorizing everyone on board. Where are the police, Mayor Wheeler?
I’m curious about the novel, “Hold Back This Day” (amazon) that he promoted on his FB page before it was taken down. Anybody read it?
Thank you for sharing the facts!!!
According to the right wingers posting in this comment section, “real journalism” is when right wing bloggers post jpegs.
There’s a reason he has chains wrapped around his neck. “Wolf collars” (dog collars with spikes on them) are for shepherding dogs so that wolves and coyotes don’t bite their neck. This guy didn’t just stab the people on the MAX, he slit their throats. The chains around his neck are to prevent people from doing the same thing to him.
Slitting people’s throats has been on this guy’s mind for a while.