Louisville Metro Division of Corrections
A 21-year-old activist, journalist and candidate for workplace has been arrested and charged in reference to the “tried assassination” of a Louisville mayoral candidate, native authorities stated late Monday.
Quintez Brown was taken into custody with out incident after police stated a gunman walked into candidate Craig Greenberg’s workplace hours early, and opened fireplace.
“Once we greeted him, he pulled out a gun aimed straight at me, and started capturing,” Greenberg recalled at a day information convention.
Brown has been charged with tried homicide and 4 counts of wanton endangerment, in response to a Louisville Metro Police spokesperson.
The 21-year-old was recognized as “a former intern and editorial columnist” of the Louisville Courier-Journal by the paper itself, the place he wrote that he had studied philosophy and Pan-Africanism whereas finding out on the College of Louisville, the place he'd beforehand served because the opinion editor of the college’s newspaper, the Cardinal.
Miraculously, nobody was harmed within the Monday morning capturing, which Greenberg known as “a surreal expertise.” A police spokesperson informed The Every day Beast that Greenberg and his employees have been unhurt—however a bullet did strike the again of Greenberg’s sweater.
A courageous staffer managed to close the door, and the group barricaded themselves inside whereas the shooter fled, the lawyer stated on the convention.
“We're shaken, however protected,” he added.
Whereas Brown’s motive stays unclear, Louisville Metro Police Division Chief Erika Shields stated that early proof means that the shooter “acted alone” and intentionally focused the Democrat.
Metro Council President David James was the primary to name the incident “an tried assassination.”
Greenberg refused to touch upon whether or not he acknowledged the gunman.
Brown wrote his first column for the Courier-Journal in 2018, describing how he’d staged a sit-in at a neighborhood highschool to demand the termination of a faculty official who’d used racially insensitive language.
He went on to pen dozens of columns for the paper, writing largely about racism, poverty, and violence.
After getting concerned within the racial justice protests in the summertime of 2020, Brown vanished for roughly two weeks, in response to the Courier-Journal. His household requested for privateness upon his reappearance.
A number of months later, Brown posted a video to Twitter to announce he could be operating to characterize a neighborhood district on Louisville’s Metro Council.
In his penultimate column for the Courier-Journal, titled “How the American schooling system destroyed me as a Black scholar,” Brown wrote, “I’m America’s shiny future. I’ve grow to be one other image of neoliberal progress the place my title and my ‘acknowledged’ title will give hope to these in determined want of meals, safety and shelter.”
“And thus I’ve grow to be destroyed,” he concluded. “Not myself. However one other instrument of oppression.”
Mayoral candidate Timothy Findley added in a Monday tweet that he was “praying for the saftey [sic] of Craig Greenberg and employees” earlier than calling the incident “unacceptable.”
Based on his marketing campaign web site, Greenberg is an lawyer and former CEO of 21C Museum Motels. The Harvard regulation faculty graduate and member of the College of Louisville Board of Trustees has beforehand stated that public security could be his high precedence if elected.
Final month, Greenberg launched a public security plan that known as for a “community-oriented police power.”
“Louisville is in a tricky spot,” Greenberg stated in an announcement accompanying the plan. “Our neighborhoods really feel much less protected, violent crime is rising, and too many individuals are trapped in habit. We see deserted automobiles on the streets and graffiti and trash in lots of neighborhoods. You’ve shared your considerations with me as I've run via each precinct in our metropolis. I share your fear and sense of urgency to repair this and repair this now.”