Nearly Assassinated Democrat Candidate for Mayor of Louisville Puzzled Over Shooter Being out on Bail in Less That 48 Hours – Opinion

On Monday, 21-year-old Quintez Brown walked into Louisville mayoral candidate Democrat Craig Greenberg’s campaign headquarters and produced a 9mm pistol (should I call it a Glock, so the journalists will know what I’m talking about?He opened fire. One shot hit Mr. Greenberg. Quick-thinking staff prevented any bloodshed by closing the door and slamming it. Police arrested Brown shortly afterward, who was still holding the gun and several magazines or clips, if he were a journalist.

Brown is more than a murder suspect. In 2020, he was the organizer of BLM protests at Louisville. He has appeared on Joy Reid’s show as an advocate for, wait for it, gun control. As an opinion writer, he was employed by the Louisville Courier-Journal. In 2019, he met former President Barack Obama as he was honored as a “rising face” by the Obama Foundation and became part of that foundation’s “My Brother’s Keeper” program. Although I could comment, my irony-meter has gone into red so I will have to return it.

Unsurprisingly, this story was essentially ignored by the mainstream media (Here’s Why the Media Is Ignoring a Political Assassination Attempt) and, to the extent that it was covered, it was all the fault of guns and far-right incitement to violence (Las Vegas Sun Posts Shamelessly Twisted Editorial on BLM Activist Shooting).

Brown was immediately released from jail on $100,000 bail. That money was quickly raised by BLM (Black Lives Matter Further Debases Itself in Kentucky) from their “bail fund.” If you recall, numerous celebrities pimped contributing to this fund to their followers during the summer of 2020.

Can I exercise this right? A BLM activist in Louisville who writes columns for the city’s main newspaper and has been honored by Barack Obama’s foundation, shoots at a Jewish guy who’s running as a Democrat for mayor, is caught and arrested for attempted murder … and is out on bail?

— Robert P. George🇻🇦🇺🇸🪕 (@McCormickProf) February 18, 2022

Now Mr. Greenberg speaks out about the injustice of this whole thing.

“It is nearly impossible to believe that someone can attempt murder on Monday and walk out of jail on Wednesday,” Mr Greenberg said in a statement on Thursday.

“If someone is struggling with a mental illness and is in custody, they should be evaluated and treated in custody.”

Mr Greenberg said the release of Mr Brown has left his team and family “traumatised again”.

It is. Also, it is difficult to comprehend how anyone can kill three people at a school while being placed on home detention. (Student who shot a teacher and two students in Texas school released within 24 hours on $75,000 bond).

I don’t want to mock Mr. Greenberg because anyone who’s had a near brush with death should be cut some slack. Seriously, how long has this man been in a coma? Which party enthusiastically promoted the BLM Riots 2020? Which party has pimped “Defund the Police?” Which party has spent more time obsessing on the non-existent “school-to-prison pipeline” (newsflash: there is a shutoff valve on that “pipeline,” it is called “don’t commit a felony”) than they have on keeping our communities safe…particularly, in the CRT parlance, “communities of color?” Which party has campaigned against requiring bail?

A better question for Mr. Greenberg to answer, given everything that has happened to him in the past week, is why in the hell would he want to be associated with the party that made his shooter and the shooter’s release from jail possible?