Trump decries Oregon stabbing
President praises slain defenders of female passengers. Great white shark leaps into boat in Australia
President Donald Trump t weeted Monday that the attack on a light-rail train in Portland, Ore., on Friday that killed two men was “unacceptable.” Police say the victims were killed as they confronted a man who was shouting insults against Muslims. Trump recognized the victims for “standing up to hate and intolerance.”
T h e t we e t c a me f r o m t h e p r e s i d e n t ’s o f f i c i a l Twitter account, @POTUS, which is chiefly run by his staff, and not from his personal account, @realDonaldTrump, which he controls.
According to witnesses, a white man riding an eastbound MAX train in Portland early Friday afternoon began yelling what “would best be characterized as hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions,” police said. Some of the slurs were directed at two female passengers, one of whom was wearing a hijab, police said. At least two men tried to calm the man down, but “they were attacked viciously by the suspect,” Portland police said.
The two men killed in the attack were Ricky John Best, 53, and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 23. A third victim, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, is being treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.
Police arrested Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, of north Portland.
L o c a l m e d i a r e p o r t s desc r i bed Chri s t i a n a s a “known white supremacist” in the area, and his Facebook page showed a long history of racist and extremist views.
In “The Old Man and the Sea,” Hemingway’s protagonist battles for three days to pull in his prized catch. For Terry Selwood, it came a little more suddenly.
Selwood, 73, was less than a mile offshore near the town of Evans Head, New South Wales, in Australia when a great white shark jumped into his boat.
He had been fishing for snapper with hand lines on a calm sea when the far bigger catch appeared without warning. “I just caught a blur coming in the corner of me eye,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “Just out of instinct I threw my right arm up, and this thing hit me in the forearm and spun me around and knocked me off my feet, and I fell on the floor on my hands and knees.”
“I looked over and said, ‘Oh, a bloody shark,’ ” he added.
Selwood thought the shark had broken his arm, but it turned out that he had instead suffered a severe abrasion from its skin. He wasn’t bitten, though.
He jumped up onto the side of his 15-foot-long boat to prevent the shark from causing him further harm. “I didn’t want to give it a chance to look in my eye,” he told ABC. “I wanted to get on top of the gunwale because it was thrashing around madly.”
S e l wo o d r a d i o e d t h e Marine Rescue Unit, who he said initially did not believe his tale. But after the team reached Selwood and saw his boat, the shark and the state of his injuries, they took him to a hospital, then returned for the boat and recovered the deceased shark.
He had thought the fish was a mako shark but was told by an official that it was a great white, ABC reported.
New York college students can apply for the state’s free tuition plan beginning June 7.
G o v. A n d r e w C u o m o announced the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation Board of Trustees approved Excelsior Scholarship regulations last week.
The initiative was a key priority for Cuomo. It covers tuition at state universities for full-time, in-state students whose families earn $125,000 or less.
Students must pay out of pocket for room, board and other expenses.
R e c i p i e n t s a l s o mu s t remain in New York for as many years as they received the benefit and repay the money as a loan if they take a job elsewhere.