Posted on 02/15/2022 9:05:15 AM PST by Jewbacca
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Police have arrested a suspect they say was responsible for the attempted murder of Louisville Democratic mayoral candidate Craig Greenburg.
Quintez Brown, 21, was taken into custody Monday. He has been charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment. According to USLegal.com, wanton endangerment refers to an act or an instance of putting someone or something in danger or exposure to peril or harm.
His arraignment happened Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. where he pleaded not guilty. Brown's bond was raised to $100,000 and if posted will be released to the Home Incarceration Program (HIP). His lawyer says a mental evaluation will be done.
Quintez Brown has also been issued a no contact order for Greenburg and his employees or campaign staff. Brown also has no-firearm order as well.
He will be back in court on February 23 at 9 a.m.
Brown is a well-known activist and organized youth protests during the social justice movements of the summer of 2020. He often wrote opinion columns about race relations in the Courier Journal.
He was also the subject of a missing person investigation last June. Brown had gone missing in late June 2021, leading to a citywide search. He was eventually found, and his family had asked for privacy while they focused on his mental, physical and spiritual health.
Brown recently announced that he was planning to run for Metro Council's District 5 seat.
What happened?
Greenberg said he and his staff were at a campaign office for a meeting when he said a man walked into the office. Upon greeting the man, later identified as Brown, that’s when Greenberg said he allegedly pulled out a gun, pointed it at him and fired.
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A staff member, he said, was able to close the door on Brown and the team was able to barricade themselves inside until police arrived.
Police said Brown was stopped about a half-mile from the Story Avenue campaign office where they allege he was carrying a drawstring bag, containing a 9mm gun and additional magazines.
Greenberg said the incident left him and his staff “shaken, but safe.”
The shooting has left the community with more questions than answers in this incident.
Louisville Metro Police Chief Erika Shields didn’t have immediate answers but said the department would investigate any possible motive.
"Mr. Greenberg is Jewish, so there’s that, we don’t know if it’s tied to the candidates or is political or if we are dealing with someone with mental issues or is venomous," she said. "We are looking at this from all angles."
Greenberg said he would not comment any further until the investigation is complete.
That said, these are all democrats here. Who knows what kind of shenanigans go on with these people?
Yup, this story will be gone by sundown today.
When I first read this, I thought his bond had been posted. I was sure that BLM covered his bail so he could finish the job.
Looks like they are laying the ground for the “mental illness” excuse to avoid calling it a hate crime.
There should be no bond for this perp. Too bad the cowards cow tow to the black mob.
Yep.
Kind of related, but I was listening to the idiot NYC mayor talk about an “epidemic” of anti-Muslim and anti-Asian hate crimes.
I looked at the stats. There were not quite 600 felony-level hate crimes in NYC.
Not quite half were against Jewish people, like 270.
About 100 were against Asians (certainly an increase)
Most of the rest were anti-LGBT and then anti-black, white, Hispanic in roughly equally amounts.
11 against Muslims.
11.
It’s an “epidemic”.
Just like they do with Muslims.
What state is more red than Kentucky? If we have to fight these crazy woke laws in red states like Kentucky, it shows how high a hill we have to climb.
now now, blk history month...
Did he spend time living in Seattle-Portland area?
“Mr. Greenberg is Jewish, so there’s that,...”
She strayed off the reservation.
In either 2019 or 2020 (I forget which), nationwide, hate crimes against Muslims were roughly the same as hate-crimes against Christians, but this is obscured because Christians are divided into Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Other. As usual, anti-Jewish hate crimes lead the pack by a wide margin.
Not sure I understand.
Yeah, she’s gonna be fired. Can even whisper the obvious.
The map is not the territory.
Urban areas have more in common with each other around the country than the rest of their state.
re: lenient bail laws... that this person could attempt to assassinate a politician and be sprung the same day for $10K.
Yes. It’s definitely an urban vs rural situation.
The irony is that as KY statewide has grown more and more red, Jefferson County(Louisville Metro) has simultaneously grown more and more blue.
The Black perp was complaining on how the education system failed him.
No one told him to take a degree in Black studies (Funny if like here at UNC-CH those courses actually existed, which they didn’t. It was a setup to get Black athletes to DUMB to enter college).
Notice how ONLY people on the Left are “activists?”
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