Editing Jeremy Joseph Christian (section)

{{Villain_Infobox
|Image = JJC.jpg
|fullname = Jeremy Joseph Christian
|alias = 
|origin = Portland, Oregon, United States
|occupation = 
|type of villain = Xenophobic Murderer
|goals = 
|crimes = [[Murder]]<br>[[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>Political extremism<br>[[Racism]]<br>[[Kidnapping]]<br>Armed robbery<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]
|hobby = Insulting minorities, especially, Blacks, Jews, and Muslims}}
{{Quote|Get out if you don't like free speech! Death to the enemies of America....You call it [[terrorism]]. I call it patriotism.|Jeremy Joseph Chrisitan}}
'''Jeremy Joseph Christian''' is an American man responsible for the stabbing [[murder]] of two men, Ricky John Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, and seriously injured another man, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, on a train in Portland, Oregon on May 26, 2017. The stabbings took place after the three men stood up to Christian after he verbally harassed a pair of Muslim teenage girls.<ref>[https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/02/jeremy-christian-guilty-on-all-counts-in-max-stabbings-trial.html Jeremy Christian guilty on all counts in MAX stabbings trial], ''The Oregonian''</ref> The incident is considered a [[hate crime]].

Following the attack, Christian, who described himself as a white nationalist, was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and other crimes. After being indicted by a grand jury, Christian pleaded not guilty to the charges and was denied bail in November 2017. His trial was scheduled for June 24, 2019. The attack was widely condemned by the Portland community, politicians, and civil rights groups, some of which said it represented a rise in [[Hate Speech|hate speech]], racism, and [[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]] incidents in the United States.