On Tuesday, we brought you the story of how Quintez Brown, 21 — a BLM activist who had appeared on the Joy Reid show pitching against guns for the March for Our Lives groups — had been arrested for the attempted assassination of Louisville mayoral Democratic candidate, Craig Greenberg.

Here is @JoyAnnReid interviewing the shooting suspect/BLM activist/black nationalist accused of trying to assassinate a Louisville mayoral candidate in a shooting. Quintez Brown was an anti-gun advocate in the March for Our Lives protest. pic.twitter.com/1yPM4qr1ek

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) February 15, 2022

Brown had worked for the Louisville Courier-Journal as an intern and an editorial columnist.

From Fox News:

In July 2020, as a student at the University of Louisville, Brown was honored by the Obama Foundation’s MBK Rising initiative and was one of only a handful of students in the country to attend the inaugural national gathering of the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.

“I better my community for the boys that look just like me by changing the narrative around violence, masculinity, and professionalism,” Brown said in a statement still featured on the foundation’s website.

Brown told local media around the same time that he demonstrated in Louisville “every day” during the Floyd unrest, and he cheered local efforts to remove police officers from schools.

Brown was even running for city council himself.

Now, liberal media being liberal media, unfortunately, when you have a story like this, you can almost be assured that they will ignore it.

But the Las Vegas Sun decided to go that one better and show they have no shame at all. They didn’t ignore the story — they used it as an effort to attack Republicans and President Donald Trump — with a twisted spin editorial that has to win the award for gall.

Holy f*ck, @LasVegasSun. This editorial was written after the alleged shooter, Quintez Brown, was identified as a left-wing BLM activist. https://t.co/oZ2lEl71Lq pic.twitter.com/JG9Td1kQ5d

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) February 16, 2022

The alleged shooter, a 21-year-old political activist, was arrested near the scene and later charged with attempted murder along with four counts of wanton endangerment.

While there’s been no indication yet that the activist had ties to any right-wing organizations, the shooting comes amid a rise in threats against politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.

Oh, my, really? For shame.

They go on to blame Trump for a claimed rise in political threats and claim most of the problem is due to Republicans, despite years of leftist violence and attacks on Republican politicians.

Given that the GOP has largely fueled this problem, it holds the lion’s share of the responsibility for addressing it. Republicans must condemn, in the strongest terms, any member of their party who promotes or suggests political violence. That includes sitting members of the House and Senate, ex-presidents, and other top leaders. [….]

No American should have to endure this menacing threat, especially those who are trying to make life better for the people they serve.

This time, miraculously, no one was hurt in the Louisville shooting. But unless talk of Americans attacking other Americans is driven back, there will be more similar incidents — and many more chances that those incidents will be bloody.

“This time” — as though this assassination attempt were part of this “Republican threat” they are postulating. And Republicans must condemn this threat — allegedly from a BLM activist?

Now, this editorial was posted at 2 a.m. Feb. 16, long after Quintez Brown had been identified and even after he pled not guilty, so they can’t even pretend not to know who was behind it. And they wonder why Americans no longer trust media? Example number one billion. I’d call it unbelievable but at this point, unfortunately, it isn’t. A lot of the media has no shame anymore.