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A woman with a cell phone pursues an unidentified man before he had to escorted out of the building by police outside the courtroom where Jeremy Christian in Portland, Ore, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Christian was in Multnomah County courtroom facing two counts of felony aggravated murder and other charges for a stabbing incident last Friday, May 26, 2017, on a Portland light-rail train. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Boston Red Sox's Mookie Betts, right, celebrates his home run off Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Jose Quintana, with Christian Vazquez (7) during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, May 30, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Hundreds of protesters gather on the south steps of the state Capitol in Austin, Texas, Monday, May 29, 2017, the last day of the legislative session, to protest Senate Bill 4. (Ricardo Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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A man and woman hold hands as they comfort each other outside the courtroom where Jeremy Christian was arraigned in Portland, Ore, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Christian was in Multnomah County courtroom facing two counts of felony aggravated murder and other charges for a stabbing incident last Friday, May 26, 2017, on a Portland light-rail train. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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An unidentified man is escorted out of the building after a large group of people outside the courtroom where Jeremy Christian was being arraigned pursued and threatened him in Portland, Ore, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Christian was in Multnomah County courtroom facing two counts of felony aggravated murder and other charges for a stabbing incident last Friday, May 26, 2017, on a Portland light-rail train. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Jeremy Joseph Christian is arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Authorities say Christian started verbally abusing two young women, including one wearing a hijab. When three men on the train intervened, police say, Christian attacked them, killing two and wounding one. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, Pool)
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An unidentified man looks back at people yelling at him as he is escorted out of the building after a large group of people outside the courtroom where Jeremy Christian was being arraigned pursued and threatened him in Portland, Ore, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Christian was in Multnomah County courtroom facing two counts of felony aggravated murder and other charges for a stabbing incident last Friday, May 26, 2017, on a Portland light-rail train. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Judge Stephen Bushong listens during the arraignment of Jeremy Joseph Christian in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Authorities say Christian started verbally abusing two young women, including one wearing a hijab. When three men on the train intervened, police say, Christian attacked them, killing two and wounding one. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, Pool)
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People hug outside court after Jeremy Christian was arraigned in Portland, Ore, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Christian was in Multnomah County courtroom facing two counts of felony aggravated murder and other charges for a stabbing incident last Friday, May 26, 2017, on a Portland light-rail train. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Jeremy Joseph Christian is arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Authorities say Christian started verbally abusing two young women, including one wearing a hijab. When three men on the train intervened, police say, Christian attacked them, killing two and wounding one. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, Pool)
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A young woman comforts a crying man outside the courtroom after Jeremy Christian was arraigned in Portland, Ore, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Christian was in Multnomah County courtroom facing two counts of felony aggravated murder and other charges for a stabbing incident last Friday, May 26, 2017, on a Portland light-rail train. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
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Micah Fletcher, a victim of a stabbing attack on a light rail train that left two dead, watches as suspect Jeremy Christian is arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Authorities say Christian started verbally abusing two young women, including one wearing a hijab on the train Friday, when three men on the train intervened. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, Pool)
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Jeremy Joseph Christian shouts as he is arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Authorities say Christian started verbally abusing two young women, including one wearing a hijab. When three men on the train intervened, police say, Christian attacked them, killing two and wounding one. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, Pool)
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In an April 29, 2017 photo provided by John Rudoff, Jeremy Joseph Christian, right, is seen during a Patriot Prayer organized by a pro-Trump group in Portland, Ore. Christian, who police say fatally stabbed two men who tried to shield two young women from an anti-Muslim tirade on a Portland light-rail train Friday, May 26, 2017, makes his initial court appearance in Portland Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Police officer at left is unidentified. (John Rudoff via AP)
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In an April 29, 2017 photo provided by John Rudoff, Jeremy Joseph Christian, right, is seen during a Patriot Prayer organized by a pro-Trump group in Portland, Ore. Christian, who police say fatally stabbed two other men who tried to shield young women from an anti-Muslim tirade on a Portland light-rail train Friday, May 26, 2017, makes his initial court appearance in Portland Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Police officer at left is unidentified. (John Rudoff via AP)
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In this Sept. 23, 2016, file photo, Muslim worshippers pray during a service at the Bernards Township Community Center in Basking Ridge, N.J. Bernards Township, N.J., will pay $3.25 million to the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to settle a lawsuit over the township's denial of a permit to build a mosque, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Under the settlement, the group will be allowed to build the mosque and the town agreed to limit zoning restrictions placed on houses of worship. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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FILE – In this Friday, Sept. 23, 2016, file photo, Iftakhar Ahmad, top, a visiting religious leader from Pakistan, leads a prayer service at the Bernards Township Community Center in Basking Ridge, N.J. Bernards Township, N.J., will pay $3.25 million to the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to settle a lawsuit over the township's denial of a permit to build a mosque, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Under the settlement, the group will be allowed to build the mosque and the town agreed to limit zoning restrictions placed on houses of worship. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2016, file photo, Dr. Mohammad Ali Chaudry, left, president of the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, N.J., and Shawn Butt, center, of Piscataway, N.J., provide voter registration information to Shahul Feroze, right, of South Brunswick, N.J., after a prayer service at the Bernards Township Community Center in Basking Ridge, N.J. Bernards Township, N.J., will pay $3.25 million to the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to settle a lawsuit over the township's denial of a permit to build a mosque, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Under the settlement, the group will be allowed to build the mosque and the town agreed to limit zoning restrictions placed on houses of worship. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2016, file photo, Muslim worshippers pray during a service at the Bernards Township Community Center in Basking Ridge, N.J. Bernards Township, N.J., will pay $3.25 million to the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to settle a lawsuit over the township's denial of a permit to build a mosque, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Under the settlement, the group will be allowed to build the mosque and the town agreed to limit zoning restrictions placed on houses of worship. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
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This photo taken May 19, 2017, shows Brooke Covington, a member of the Word of Faith Fellowship church in Spindle, N.C., leaving a hearing at Rutherford County Courthouse accompanied by an attorney, Joshua Valentine, in Rutherfordton, N.C. Covington and other church members are accused of kidnapping and assaulting Matthew Fenner, a former church member, because he is gay. Covington, 58, has pleaded innocent to one count each of kidnapping and assault. If convicted, she faces up to two years in prison. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
