Woman criticizes TriMet, Portland police response on day before MAX stabbing
(World News USA)

Demetria Hester said Friday she was made to feel like the perpetrator, not the victim, when police arrived in May to investigate her report that a man on a MAX train had hurled racial taunts at her and threw a bottle at her face. She was stunned to find out that police the next day arrested the same suspect, Jeremy Christian, after witnesses said he fatally stabbed two men and seriously wounded a third during a racial tirade against two teenage girls on another MAX train. `I should feel safe in Portland. I don`t,`` Hester said as she sat beside her pastor. `How can you feel safe if the police or TriMet are not there to protect you?`` The 42-year-old African American woman was headed home...