(TJVNEWS) An extremist “woke” anti-gun and “racial justice” activist and columnist shot at a mayoral candidate in Louisville, and got charged with attempted murder.
The assassination attempt on mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg failed. He felt the bullet graze his sweater before his campaign workers barricaded the door against the assassin, Quintez Brown.
The Louisville Courier-Journal easily identified the would-be assassin, because he had written for it. Quintez Brown worked for the Courier-Journal as a columnist and intern, in addition to being a civil-rights activist in Louisville, as reported by the Louisville Courier itself.
Quintez Brown, 21, was charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment after Greenberg was shot at in his campaign headquarters Monday morning in Butchertown, LMPD spokeswoman Elizabeth Ruoff said late Monday.
Brown was an anti-gun activist, as Charles C.W. Cooke notes at National Review. That included opposition to constitutional carry:
Your life has no meaning to the irresponsible politicians in Frankfort who time and time again choose the National Rifle Association over your life.
Their support for Senate Bill 150, which allows Kentuckians to carry concealed weapons without a permit, is yet another warning: They’ve put a price tag on your life and decided that the blood money they receive from the NRA is more valuable.
Every time lawmakers vote against gun safety, and thus the lives of our most vulnerable, they show that their hearts can be as cold as the steel of the guns they praise.
In addition to his anti-gun stances, Brown was “involved in the racial justice protests of 2020.” Brown had launched his own, idiosyncratic political campaign for public office. Brown was running on a (LINK) “Pan-African,” “revolutionary” platform:
