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Christian observing Tuesday's opening statements. Beth Nakamura / OregonLive

These were the two distinct arguments made before a 14-person jury Tuesday, the first day of what’s expected to be a month-long trial on Christian’s actions surrounding the 2017 stabbings.

Christian, 37, is facing 12 charges for allegedly killing Ricky Best and Taliesin Namkai-Meche and attempting to kill Micah Fletcher, the three strangers who intervened after Christian boarded a MAX train on May 26, held a Book of Mormon above his head, and began shouting about killing Muslims and Christians.

Christian’s charges also include intimidating fellow passengers Walio Mohamed and Destinee Magnum because of their race and perceived religious beliefs. According to witnesses, the two African American teenagers were the primary focus of Christian’s tirade that afternoon. Mohamed was wearing a hijab, a headscarf signifying her Muslim faith, at the time. Christian is also charged with threatening fellow passenger Shawn Forde with a knife after Forde used his body to block Mohamed and Magnum from Christian’s sight.

"You guys ready to smash Portland’s fairytale of a hate crime?”

Christian’s final alleged crime is against Demetria Hester, an African American woman who was allegedly assaulted by Christian on May 25, the day before the fatal MAX encounter, after she confronted him for spouting yet another racist rant on a MAX train.

There's conflict brewing in Bezos's Balls. DAVID RYDER/GETTY IMAGES

The employees, who are calling themselves Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, released statements and a video calling out both Amazon’s contributions to carbon emissions in the global economy and a company policy that bans employees from publicly speaking about their protest. As the Washington Post reported earlier this month, after Amazon employees started talking with the press about their concerns, the company advised them to cut it the fuck out or risk termination.

1/ Hundreds of us decided to stand up to our employer, Amazon. We are scared. But we decided we couldn’t live with ourselves if we let a policy silence us in the face of an issue of such moral gravity like the climate crisis. #AMZNSpeakOut pic.twitter.com/zWIKku4LF6
— Amazon Employees For Climate Justice (@AMZNforClimate) January 27, 2020

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If passed, House Bill 4116 will make Oregon just the second state in the country in which pharmacists can prescribe PrEP—a daily pill that greatly reduces a person’s risk of contracting HIV—to people who test negative for HIV. (California lawmakers passed a similar bill last year.) The bill will also allow pharmacists to prescribe PEP, a course of drugs people can use after they have been exposed to HIV.

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Henriksen was the 5th person to be be shot and killed by PPB officers last year, making 2019 PPB's most fatal year since 2010.

He was also the 20th mentally ill person to be killed by a PPB officer in the last decade. None of the officers responsible for these deaths have faced criminal charges.