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PORTLAND, Wash. (AP) – An organizer canceled an anti-Shariah law rally planned for June 10th in downtown Portland.
He blamed “inflammatory comments” by Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.
“I’m appealing to the organizers of the Alt-Right events to cancel the events they’ve scheduled on June 4th, and June 10th. I urge them to ask their supporters to stay away from Portland at this difficult time.”
He says remarks like that put participants at risk of violence.
He says they’ll march in Seattle instead.
Wheeler says the city is in mourning from a deadly stabbing on a light-rail train and that the event would exacerbate tensions.
He called on the U.S. government to deny permits for an event Sunday billed as a pro President Donald Trump free-speech rally and the anti-Shariah law rally.
Both were planned on federal property.
So far, the rally scheduled for Sunday is still on.
“Free speech or die poorly, you’ve got no safe place. This is America, get out if you don’t like free speech. You call it terrorism, I call it patriotism, you hear me? Die.”
That’s Jeremy Joseph Christian in court yesterday.
He’s accused of killing two men and injuring a third who tried to stop his anti-Muslim tirade against two young women.
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