Criminal law, Politics

Activist Bailed Out In Kentucky After Allegedly Attempting to Murder Political Candidate

Quintez Brown has been arrested in connection to the shooting of mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg on February 15, 2022.The release of Quintez Brown, 21, after trying to murder a Kentucky mayoral candidate is simply baffling. Since bail decisions are based in large part on risk to the community, I cannot imagine a less compelling case for bail given a reportedly history of mental illness, an attempted murder of a political candidate, and the possible political motive behind the violence. Notably, many rioters from Jan. 6th were denied bail without a charge of attempted murder. However, Black Lives Matter was able to bail out Brown with seemingly little difficulty.

Brown came within less than an inch of succeeding in murdering Craig Greenberg. Indeed, one round cut the candidate’s sweater. He was bailed out with the help of the Louisville Community Bail Fund, which is reportedly part of Black Lives Matter Louisville.

In Kentucky, all offenses, except some capital offenses, have a right to bail. However, judges may deny bail if they believe that the individual will not appear for court proceedings or is a danger to society. Since 2013, Kentucky has used the Public Safety Assessment (PSA) that looks at the risk of failure to appear, risk of new arrest, and risk of new arrest for a violent crime. The only reason that this is not a capital case is a matter of less than an inch — literally the width of a sweater.

Brown is a known activist who appeared on MSNBC with its host Joy Reid:

It is not clear why he wanted to murder this candidate. However, even as a criminal defense attorney, I am surprised by the bail decision. I could understand removal to a psychiatric hospital, but I cannot square the bail decision.

It is also notable that the BLM money is derived from crowdfunding despite the freezing of such funds for the Canadian truckers.

174 thoughts on “Activist Bailed Out In Kentucky After Allegedly Attempting to Murder Political Candidate”

  1. @enigmainblackcom

    I am hoping this visionary organization can take their message of peace, love and joy beyond Jefferson County to places such inhabited by deplorables as Jackson, Paducah or Pikeville, I am sure it would be enlightening.

    Perhaps you can persuade them?

    antonio

  2. You can count on the MSM to spend as little time as possible on this case. The intended victim is a progressive, maybe the fact that he has been “mugged by reality” will alter his views. I doubt it though.

    1. @alank

      No, he will blame his “white privilege”, if he even considers himself as such. I feel ZERO empathy when s@@tlibs get bitten by their own pets.

      antonio

  3. Jonathan Turley, the lack of research you did before writing this hit piece is beneath you. Return tgo your prior high standard by stop trying to do so much! It leaves no time to do anything well.

    In particular, BLM has nothing to do with this case, but other commenters have pointed out more of the facts.

    1. According to several sources the Louisville Community Bail Fund was co-founded by Black Lives Matter Louisville organizer Chanelle Helm and is run by the same organization.

      1. Sergeant Major, cite your sources. But no, LCF is not “the same organization” as BLM.

          1. Ralph Chappell, thank you for the link.

            There is one co-organizer for two distinct organizations.

        2. @David B Benson

          The point is he was allowed bail anyway for such a serious offense. I did criminal defense in another life and had a fairly good evaluation of such cases. BUT let’s be honest, you would have no problem with the granting of bail in this situation regardless; whether BLM (or related organization) was involved or not because of the shooter was a BLM activist and you approve of BLM.

          In contradistinction, if you are of the ‘wrong’ political persuasion and trespass in the US Capitol (i.e. January 6, 2021) I have a feeling you would look at that differently, In fact, I would bet a large sum on that.

          I truly detest s@@tlibs when they try to moralize everything and work backwards while justifying an action. The question isn’t what happened; it is who did it; their relative rank in the ‘victimhood’ scale and the purpose for doing so.

          Just be honest and I would respect you more. Of course, you won’t, you’ll just call me a slur.

          antonio

          1. antonio, the prep is in fact under house arrest and wearing an ankle monitor. Even after bail was posted for him he is not a free agent.

            Look carefully at the reasons given for the bail request, please.

            1. @davidbbenson

              All I can say is, I wish I had been practicing criminal law in the “woke” era.

              What about granting bail to the January 6h defendants? They’ll wear an ankle monitor and are not free agents. I am sure you would approve, right?

              I am holding my breath while writing.

              antonio

              1. antonio, I have no objection to bail. It is up to the criminal justice system.

                Please do breathe normally!

                1. @davidbbenson

                  If that includes the January 6th people, you had better be careful, your leftist buddies will stop inviting you to cocktail parties and call you all kinds of names too.

                  antonio

                  1. antonio, what with COVID-19 isolation I don’t go to cocktail parties, etc., just now.
                    When I was quite young I learned:
                    “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.”

            2. David: “the prep is in fact under house arrest and wearing an ankle monitor.”

              +++

              I have never shot with my foot or ankle, have you? The ankle monitor only loosely keeps track of him when he heads out to shoot someone else.

              It is not a homicide prevention device.

              1. Young, my understanding of the monitor is that if he leaves his house the police will immediately know and re-arrest him.

        3. I never said it was the same organization. I said it was run by the same organization as in BLM Louisville. The Courier Journal, “Meet the groups bailing out people from the Louisville jail. What they want is reform” dated Feb 17, 2022 states “Louisville’s two bail funds — the Bail Project, part of a national network that received $16 million in donations since protests began, and Black Lives Matter-run Louisville Community Bail Fund, which got more than $3.5 million — together as of mid-September had posted bonds for at least 483 people since protests began.” Metro Louisville, “Louisville Community Bail Fund says it posted bail for accused shooter Quintez Brown” dated Feb 16, 2022 states “The Louisville Community Bail Fund, a group co-founded by Black Lives Matter Louisville organizer Chanelle Helm….”. I’m sure you could have found these sources and others if you just tried. If you have issues with the information provided by these sources please call them directly. I’m sure they’d love to hear from you Dave.

          1. Sargent Major, there is a difference between reporting a fact, with citation as to source, and stating an assertion. Those so-called reporters simply assert in the two articles you quote.

            1. Is that what they did, simply assert? Well I guess the other dozen articles on-line with so-called reporters were all simply asserting. Come on man! I suspect they did some research. How about you?

              1. Sergeant Major, reporters don’t have time, usually, to research allegations.

      2. You are correct Sarge. Re: Chanelle, Democrats are in big trouble with folks like Chanelle

        Chanelle Helm is a mother, Black Lives Matter Louisville organizer, community weaver for Black Liberation and political activist focused on defunding police.

        https://www.sulc.edu/page/chanelle-helm

      1. Thinkitthrough, that so-called reportage begins with an assertion by the so-called reporters.

        Do learn to read with comprehension.

        1. “Return tgo your prior high standard…”

          “…prep is under house arrest.”
          ________________________

          “Do learn to read with comprehension.”

          In what universe is the foregoing comprehensible, Professor Buffoon?
          _______________________________________________________

          “…stop trying to do so much! It leaves no time to do anything well.”

          Sage advice.

        2. David,

          Even leftist BBC is covering it:

          “He has previously worked in youth violence prevention training and was once invited to meet Barack Obama at the launch of a programme started by the former US president.”

          https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60392196

          Usually someone can be detained for psychiatric problems if he is a danger to himself or to others.

          I suspect you don’t like the thresholds but historically shooting at someone and grazing him with your bullet has been found to be sufficient evidence to think the shooter might be a danger to others, particularly if after he misses the first time he is free to practice and improve his aim.

          What would be your opinion if an activist student shot at you during a lecture? Maybe you should drop his grade by a point or two or would you prefer something more likely to prevent him from being right on target next time? Are you good at ducking and weaving while you are running? If so, maybe you will let him finish your course. Like the corporate media, you are very tolerant in these matters if the shooter is a leftist.

          1. Young, I am completely intolerant of guns. Discharging one is a serious offense in this city. No student may even legally have one on campus. This includes so-called air guns.

            As I understand it, the Louisville prep is confined to home and with an ankle monitor. In these parts the jails are safe and the criminal justice system much less inclined to grant bail for similar, usually drug related, alleged crimes.

            1. Professor Buffoon, having just controverted, subverted and incited insurrection against the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, do you consider yourself a criminal against fundamental law, a traitor, a dictatorial communist, and a direct and mortal enemy of the U.S. Constitution and of America?

            2. Discharging a gun is typically a serious offense in most cities and it’s a shame that adults are stripped of their right to defend themselves on any campus.

              1. There are classes in several of the martial arts, emphasizing those which have no sticks or other weapons. There is also a campus police force.

                More important, there is an atmosphere which precludes any necessity for “defending themselves”.

                  1. Here there is a week of orientation for new students. In addition the city police and the county prosecutor properly do their thing. The university is a big part of the population of the county.

                    Nonetheless, many women take instruction in the unarmed martial arms.

                    So no longer happens much around here. Even football players get canned.

                    1. There, there is a guy named David who doesn’t care about the safety of women or people in general. He’d rather they become victims instead of having the capability to protect themselves or others. I’m pretty sure city and campus police are armed. Why is that? Why don’t they just rely on some martial arts training? Could it be they know there’s a possibility the bad guy has a weapon and they rely on their firearm to protect themselves and others. So what makes you think all the people planning to assault women on campus don’t have a weapon? So some football players got canned for assaulting women? Was that before or after the assault? You really make it easy for anyone to make you look foolish.

                    2. Sergeant Major, yes, city and campus police carry pistols and have other arms available. There are never, ever, any shootouts. I know the city police chief, a most sensible man who has done considerable to lower crime during his tenure here. Most crimes are the result of intemperance, including illegal drugs, and for the former he instituted patrols and obtained co-operation from the tavern operators.
                      As I stated before, nobody but the police has arms on campus.

                      Rape attempts are mostly what is called date-rape. Orientation makes it clear: those attempts will be prosecuted and the guilty disenrolled. Doesn’t happen much any more.

                    4. David,

                      I think you live in Eastern Washington where both the culture and the demographics give you the luxury of believing laws protect you. Maybe they do a little bit, but it really comes down to culture and demographics.

                      Baltimore has pretty much the same laws but a different culture and demographic and it is a homicidal war zone where people can’t trust the law to protect them, not even if they are police officers.

                      The same might be said in Austin, Texas where a Soros prosecutor prefers to prosecute police officers rather than actual criminals.

                2. More important, there is an atmosphere which precludes any necessity for “defending themselves”.

                  I’m working from memory here, and too lazy to actually look it up, but the Constitution does’t mention anything about “necessity” being a condition of exercising rights that existed before our Nation was formed.

            3. @davidbbenson

              I survived a home invasion in 2001 due to being a lawful gun owner. Guess I should have let the perp rob and harm my family all in the name of social justice. And as a victim of racism it was not the perps fault anyway.

              antonio

              1. antonio, about a decade ago a gang came over from over 2 hours away to engage in robbery of vacant homes. One near me wasn’t vacant and the woman there handed over her credit card at gunpoint. She called the police directly after the perps left and they were caught a few hours later.

                Sorry about the lack of what I will call civility where you live. You might care to help rectify that.

                1. David, do you remember when cities were being burned, people killed, stores broken into? There was information that such activity might occur in Polk County Florida. For some reason the community was spared. The video explains why.

                3. OMG…that story of yours makes you an expert huh. That’s weak sauce brother and you know it. Some years ago I confronted a useless knob poaching in my woods. I disarmed him broke his rifle and marched him to the nearest gravel road. Mind you I had a good notion to beat him senseless…it would have been wasted on such a cog. I got a local deputy to come scoop him up and as he was also a felon in possession he was guaranteed some recourse in my rural area’s court system…whereas in ‘loserville’ he would likely have gotten a pass.
                  Quintez Brown is a violent communist hypocrite. It is beyond belief people like you would even entertain he has rights when he pulls out a loaded pistol and tries to murder someone. And when caught walking down the street shortly after he had same loaded pistol in his pant pocket and another loaded pistol in a bag with several loaded spare magazines. 20 years ago a cog like this would have been tossed in the klink and given some hard time to think about his visiting violence upon a fellow citizen. It is sad this criminal is using his ethnicity and his politics to garner an excuse …and the cover sheet is “mental health”. You have to have mental issues being a communist in this country…that’s a given. And an ankle monitor for his Burn Loot & Murder attempt. Thank the democrat party , George Soros and anyone associated with the corruption of the BLM org and it’s dirty money.

            4. David,

              I appreciate that you are intolerant of guns.

              Many people are until they need one.

              Beverly Hills, left-leaning, anti-gun celebrities have been lining up to buy guns now that the justice system in LA has collapsed. They have a great sheriff in the county but a morally diseased, Soros prosecutor.

              “No student may even legally have one on campus” you say.

              Well that surely offers lots of protection. I vaguely remember that it is illegal to shoot someone too. I didn’t major in psychology [thank God] but I suspect that someone who is heading out to shoot someone to death will not change his mind that if he hears it is illegal to have a gun on campus.

              You haven’t done much with criminals [and good for you] but if you had done you would have recognized that many of them aren’t particularly worried about breaking major laws. Little campus rules only provoke snorting, eye-watering, derisive laughter. They worry about getting caught and often not enough about that.

              They do what they want to do.

                  1. Soros contributed heavily to his campaign and to that of other crackpot, lawless prosecutors like the ones in SF, St. Louis, and Austin.

                  3. “nothing to do with Soros.”

                    David, what makes you believe that malarky? You use have some very special information that you can share.

    3. “BLM has nothing to do with this case”

      +++

      “Local BLM chapter posts bail for man charged with attempted murder of mayoral candidate”

      https://wset.com/news/nation-world/man-charged-with-attempted-murder-of-ky-mayoral-candidate-out-of-jail-thanks-to-blm-black-lives-matter-louisville-kentucky-quintez-brown-craig-greenberg-assassinate-assassination-bail-fund-police-social-justice-activist

      At least you did better than Dennis or the Las Vegas Sun who claimed this BLM activist was a right-wing fanatic.

    4. Is this comment meant to be a joke? Regardless of the intent … it is a joke. But no one will laugh.

    5. Close your eyes and go back to sleep. He was a black anti Semite who spewed hate on his social media sites about hating Jews. CNN probably isn’t talking about it, so of course you have no clue.

      1. Admiration for Jew-hater Kwame Ture: Quintez Brown frequently tweeted, and apparently greatly admires the uncompromising, radical “Black Power” and Pan-African socialist teachings of extremist Kwame Ture a.k.a. Stokely Carmichael. Kwame Ture was an antisemite and misogynist who infamously said: “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist” and “The only position for women in SNCC is prone”; and supported Fatah terrorist murderers as engaged in a “just struggle.”

  4. Maybe a nuclear war is what Generation Entitled deserves, so I won’t be making any more appeals to reason and fairness. I’ll just sit back and let it happen, if God wills it. Rots of ruck.

  5. @Anthony DelHomme

    You’re kidding, right? No idea of what a ‘woke’ corporation is? How about those that donated 60 billion to BLM after the death of St. George of Minneapolis? And now the BLM founders have converted the money, how about that? On their own without white leftist support, they couldn’t organize a 2 car funeral.

    And per leftist ideology, I cannot be ‘racist’ because I am a genuine Hispanic. If I were a leftist b@@ch and moan Hispanic, you’d be s@@king up by now hoping I like you.

    antonio

  6. How interesting to see a man who was opposed to guns using a gun in an attempt to kill another man. You would think that such a man would be sickened at just the thought of owning a gun. How can he justify owning a gun when he is against gun ownership. Perhaps he is criminally insane. If so, the common practice is to house the criminally insane in a place where they can not harm another person. The judge has a bleeding heart but not for this mans potential victims. We were unfair to Jeffrey Dahmer by locking him up. https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jeffrey-dahmer. We should have had more mercy just because he was mentally ill. Tell it to the families of the seventeen people he killed. The quality of mercy is strained.

  8. ” However, Black Lives Matter was able to bail out Brown with seemingly little difficulty.

    Brown came within less than an inch of succeeding in murdering Craig Greenberg. Indeed, one round cut the candidate’s sweater. He was bailed out with the help of the Louisville Community Bail Fund, which is reportedly part of Black Lives Matter Louisville.”

    Fact, despite multiple references to Black Lives Matter by Turley, they have nothing to do with this case, did not bail out the accused man, and the local group that did bail him out is not part of Black Lives Matter. Elsewhere, Turley refers to Black Lives Matter still being able to use crowdfunding to raise money though the Canadian truckers can’t/ Listening to the video Turley provided, it’s clear the local group is opposed to violence and posted bail to get the shooter the mental health assistance he was denied by a judge the previous day. Why does Turley continually misrepresent these situations? You’ll have to ask him.

    1. According to several sources the Louisville Community Bail Fund was co-founded by Black Lives Matter Louisville organizer Chanelle Helm and is run by the same organization.

      1. This is what the organization says about itself, please note the last sentence.

        “The Louisville Community Bail Fund exists to not only bail out folks, but provide post-release support to get them from jail, fed, and to a situation of safety. LCBF also maintains a focus on preventative measures for those targeted by law enforcement and threatened with incarceration. While we work with national networks, we are also one of the only bail funds that rely entirely on support from individuals in our social justice community”
        Several sources indeed make claims like “affiliated with” “run by” “funded by” without any documentation. I looked for anything besides these claims and couldn’t find anything other than the local group that posted the bail doing so, despite Turley and others claiming BLM did it.

        1. Your quote if from a fund raising page at the Action Network. If you look just below that quote you see “Sponsored” and a Black Lives Matter Louisville symbol. If you look to the left of that you’ll see “Contributions Will Go To” and the same symbol. Come on man!

        2. So enigmainblack you now tell us that Chanelle Helm the representative of Liberty has no connection to BLM. https://www.sulc.edu/page/chanelle-helm. This link is a testimony as to the reading comprehension of you or I. The smoke your blowing up our skirts is getting more and more thick with each of your additional posts. I’m sure that Chanelle Helm is overjoyed with your claim that she is in no way connected to BLM. Enigma says, “We don’t know who you are sister.”

          1. I am a member of the NAACP, I am not the NAACP nor does anything I say or do become an official act of the organization. I have written articles about Black Lives Matter, people might take that to mean we are affiliated but that isn’t true. I am an independent contractor for a real estate company, if I make a contribution to a cause, that firm didn’t make a contribution. I am a Vice-President of a company, and President of another. I am affiliated with those companies but my actions are not the official position of those companies.
            All the articles that go into detail say that posting bail was an attempt to get the shooter mental health assistance which the court denied. I’m not against the posting of bail for that reason, even if BLM did it, but they didn’t.

    2. BLM is ever present when praise is to be given, but somehow, when the news is bad we hear them distancing themselves saying they had nothing to do with it. We all know that is a lie.

      1. You say they distanced themselbves. When and where? I said Turley’s comments are not only misleading but false. BTW, I don’t happen to be a member of BLM though I’m sure if I did something I would be a supporter or affiliated with them.

        1. Nothing Turkey said was misleading or false. The Louisville Community Bail Fund is run by BLM Louisville.

    3. Enigma, here is a piece of information that you did not provide. A BLM leader in Louisville admits that they provide bail money. https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/craig-greenberg-quintez-brown-bond-louisville-community-bail-fund-black-lives-matter-paid-jail/417-ded50329-295d-4981-9d1e-282551010f1a. When you try to blow smoke up our skirts it does nothing to support your credibility. If this man needs help for a mental illness why didn’t BLM insist that he be placed in a place where he could receive help rather than just allowing him to languish on his couch. Mercy without demanding treatment has nothing to do with mercy at all. Racism and mercy virtual signaling all in one fell swoop. A good day for you.

      1. “A BLM leader in Louisville admits that they provide bail money.”

        Please point to anything in the article you posted that says BLM posted any bail money? I’ll wait. . .

              1. You are making a link supported by nothing but the clickbait title. The story claims without documentation that the Louisville Community Bail Fund is an arm of BLM. That is little different than saying the Girl Scouts are an arm of United Way. If you buy a bad batch of cookies, is United Way responsible?
                The Action Network consists of dozens of non-profit organizations. Are they owned or “run by” BLM? Of course not, otherwise you’d have to rescind your claim all the money BLM raises is pilfered and not helping people in the community.

  9. I do not know anything about this guy or the guy he tried to shoot.

    But what he said about gun reform in that clip made a lot of sense.

    1. The only thing he said about gun reform was banning unicorns. An imaginary thing that only exists in their mind.

      The assault rifle available is full automatic.

      What is actually in use is a semi automatic rifle the the left has chosen because it looks scary. Purely cosmetic.

    2. He wants to “get rid of assault rifles”. Those rifles are used by the military and law enforcement and are functionally illegal in the U.S. for civilian use and have been for decades. Semi-automatic-only rifles like the AR-15 are not assault rifles so nothing he said made sense unless your ignorant about firearms.

      1. Sergeant: “nothing he said made sense unless your ignorant about firearms.”

        +++

        Well we already know he isn’t a good shot.

  10. Why do Americans voluntarily suffer the operations of its direct and mortal enemy on U.S. soil?

    Why in God’s name would a nation allow itself to be “fundamentally transformed” and subjugated under the supremacy of another, that of the enemy?
    _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

    Joshua 6 Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.

    2 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.”

    20 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

  11. I saw the video you included of the guy at a march for Gun Reform, talking about Gun Reform.

    There is no mention of Black Lives Matter in your clip.

    But calling him a Gun Reform advocate does not fit into your narrative of trying to smear Black Lives Matter at every turn.

  12. And here in a nutshell is the difference in American justice between how conservatives and radicals are treated.

    Any wonder that many conservatives believe that the deck is stacked against them?

  14. Socialist Liberal Democrats…The party of the Super Rich and the Super Poor…They will never figure out that the Republican Party is the “Party of the Working Man”

  15. Amazon just kicked BLM off their charity program because of questions regarding fraud.

    1. @Margot Ballhere

      They did so because Amazon is ‘racist’ and can no longer be considered a ‘woke’ corporation. Amazing how all of these “White Supremacists” manage to stay hidden in Amazon.

      TO ALL S@@TLIBS! It’s ok to hate Amazon now. They are just another evil corporation.

      antonio

      1. I DISAGREE WITH THE SUGGESTION THAT AMAZON IS :RACIST”. FIRST, WHAT IS A ‘WOKE’ CORPORATION ?
        ANYONE, REGARDLESS OF RACE, SHOULD BE TREATED AS A CRIMINAL IF CONVICTED. YOU ARE THE RACIST.

  19. Of course crowdfunding sources can be used to raise money for his bail. And to question such is racist! As for the “truckers”, they are fascists and should not be able to use such sources. No money (or free speech) for “nazis”, right?

    As for the shooting, let’s blame it on “White Supremacy”. S@@tlibs were able to successfully portray black attacks on Asians in such a manner.

    antonio

  20. Craig Greenberg is Jewish. Could anti-Semitism be involved since BLM has shown itself to be anti-Semitic in many areas, including the destruction of property?

    1. Sorry but most progressive Jews in American would rather focus on the existential threat of Trump. They avert their gaze from the real anti-Semites in this country It was a group of progressive American Jews who save the political life of Ilhan Omar

      1. @AlanK

        You are on the right track. I would suggest you become better acquainted with the writings of retired academic Dr. Kevin MacDonald. Easy to look up online.

        antonio

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