The Hollywood Transit Center, in Portland, Oregon, was quiet on Sunday morning, but its concrete walkways were filled with words of love and grief. By twos and by threes, by bike and by foot, people arrived to leave flowers or messages of remembrance for Taliesin Namkai-Meche and Ricky Best, the two Portland men who, on May 26th, were fatally stabbed on the light-rail train, after they tried to stop a man from shouting anti-Muslim insults at two teen-age girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab. (Another man, Micah Fletcher, who also intervened, was badly wounded but survived.) At the …read more
Source: The New Yorker
