This past Wednesday, Black Lives Matter Louisville created a bail fund that was used to post the $100,000 bail that was slammed against Quintez Brown, 21, who has been accused of firing multiple shots inside a Democratic mayoral candidate’s campaign office, resulting in no serious injuries, but grazing Craig Greenberg, the mayoral candidate, in the spray of rounds. One local reporter was able to record one activist affiliated with the fund actually going out to post the bail Wednesday evening.
On Wednesday, Rachel Droze with WHAS 11, a local news station, put out a tweet stating, “just spoke with @BLMLouisville. They are heading to the bank to get a cashiers check to post Quintez Brown’s bail. Brown is charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at mayoral candidate @RunWithCraig.”
The story was officially confirmed by Courtney Hayden, also with WHAS 11, who stated that “Chanelle Helm, an organizer for Black Lives Matter Louisville, said Wednesday that the Louisville Community Bail Fund will pay the $100,000 bond set for Quintez Brown. Leaders with BLM Louisville went to the bank for a cashier’s check around 3:30 p.m. to post his bail.”
As highlighted by Hayden, “Brown is facing one charge of attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment. During his arraignment Tuesday, he pleaded not guilty and his bond was raised from $75,000 to $100,000.”
BLM Louisville refused to respond to any comments via Twitter to Droze’s comments, but they did like a response from one user who stated, “Why does dude have a bail anyways?”
Droze tweeted out later, “The $100,000 cashiers check has been officially given to the clerks office to pay for @BLMLouisville activist Quintez Brown’s release. @LouCommBailFund is paying. Brown is accused of shooting at Louisville mayoral candidate @RunWithCraig.”
The activist that was sent to the clerk’s office was seen sporting a “Free Angela” retro shirt, seemingly in reference to Dr.Angela Davis who was a professed communist and college professor who was wanted by the FBI for alleged involvement in kidnapping plots that ended in the deaths of four people in 1970. Davis was ultimately acquitted.
The $100,000 cashiers check has been officially given to the clerks office to pay for @BLMLouisville activist Quintez Brown’s release. @LouCommBailFund is paying. Brown is accused of shooting at Louisville mayoral candidate @RunWithCraig. pic.twitter.com/5BMdW2hpfm
— Rachel DrozeTV (@RachelDrozeTV) February 16, 2022
This past Tuesday, it was reported that Brown is a self-proclaimed racial justice activist who has done work towards “the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism.” As stated in reports, he met up with a group of black nationalists in the previous week and has a long history of supporting violent radicals such as Assata Shakur and Kwame Ture on Twitter and Instagram.
The man was known as an MLK Scholar over at the University of Louisville and “is the founder of From Fields to Arena, a group committed to providing political education and violence prevention training to youths engaged in hip-hop and athletics.”
it was reported by The Daily Beast that just last week Brown spoke with a representative from “Lion of Judah,” which is a black nationalist militia group, and took steps to encourage the people following him to join the group, which holds the belief that black people are the “chosen people” of God, not the Jews. The group is well known for its ties with extreme anti-semitic Black Hebrew Israelites:
Brown’s more recent social media posts, particularly the accounts associated with his campaign for a seat in the Louisville Metro Council, show an increasing interest in Black nationalist and pan-Africanist leaders. He frequently posted photos and quotes of the Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael, George Jackson, and late Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah.
He even appeared to urge followers last week to join the Lion of Judah Armed Forces, a gun-toting group whose leadership has voiced ideas similar to those of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement. The latter anti-Semitic ideology holds that Black Americans, not Jewish people, are the true descendants of the Biblical Hebrews. Adherents of the BHI movement were charged with murdering four Jewish people at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City in 2019.
A local spokesman for the Lion of Judah Armed Forces told The Daily Beast he first met with Brown last Thursday, though he said the accused never became a member of the group. He affirmed the organization’s Black Hebrew Israelite beliefs, but maintained they did not endorse the attack or have any foreknowledge of Brown’s plans.
“We are terribly heartbroken over what appears to have been a humongous lapse in judgment,” the spokesperson said. “The Lion of Judah Armed Forces in no way advocates anything of this nature.”
the people known to be close to Brown have come forward stateing that he has a history of mental illness. Recently, he went on to state, “Louisville’s ‘criminal justice system’ is the only infrastructure that is constantly funded and reinforced by the bipartisan white power structure. The intrinsic violence of the jails and the police upholds our racial and economic disparities and our leaders are COMPLICIT.”