LOUISVILLE, Ky (WEHT) – Black Lives Matter Louisville (BLM-L) made an announcement on the arrest and bail of Quintez Brown, who is an attempted murder suspect.
“We’re grateful that no person was injured in Craig Greenberg’s workplace on February 14, 2022.” BLM-L stated in a launched assertion. “We’re grateful that 21-year previous Quintez Brown was taken into custody alive when worse outcomes are so typically each tragic and predictable. Simply as there isn’t a justice for misplaced and destroyed Black lives, there may be additionally no concern for his or her future.”
The group said that Brown wants psychological well being assist, they usually state he didn’t belong in jail. “The Louisville Metro Division of Corrections jail is harmful; six folks have died of their care in 4 months. Nobody who wants it ought to be detained one other hour with out counsel, assist, and psychological and bodily well being care. These helps are comparatively low cost, whereas punishment and management are extra pricey, much less efficient, and perpetuate cycles of trauma and oppression.”
BLM-L went on to say, “Nobody in our neighborhood finds pleasure within the violence that occurred Monday nor another day. We’re in an period the place violence takes place every day in lots of varieties. We attempt to construct a world the place our kids and their youngsters might by no means must traverse the degrees of violence we’ve confronted and face now.”
The group painted Brown in a unique gentle, saying that Brown was a “sensible and vibrant chief from the West Finish of Louisville.” BLM-L said that Brown was extra thinking about peace than violence. “He has advocated for a violence-free world, and efficiently led campaigns together with one in opposition to a racist principal to take away police from faculties, March for Our Lives, and native and nationwide violence prevention packages. As many activists and organizers uncover, battling racial trauma as an adolescent is tough when lots of our communities don’t know the best way to observe therapeutic, and this work is tough.”
