Quanell X found guilty of fleeing a police officer
It’s refreshing to discover that being a race-baiting blowhard who thinks that he is above the law is not, in fact, above the law. Perhaps there is hope for our justice system after all.
A jury today found Quanell X guilty of fleeing a police officer, a lesser offense than the charge of evading arrest he received when a fugitive was found in his car in June….
State Criminal District Judge Brock Thomas sentenced Quanell X to six months probation, a $300 fine and 30 hours of community service.
During closing arguments today, his attorney claimed he was a good Samaritan trying to protect the community from a dangerous fugitive, but prosecutors said Quanell X brazenly disobeyed police officers who were trying to stop him….
“As far as being just, I think it’s fair, as far as the circumstances are concerned,” Prosecutor Denise Nassar said afterward. “I think we should encourage people to cooperate with police.”
Nation of Islam Minister Robert Muhammad, a supporter of Quanell X, said of the sentence, “It means they wasted taxpayers’ money. This is an abuse of prosecutorial discretion.”
He was arrested June 11 and charged with evading arrest after police said he refused to stop, even when surrounded by patrol cars using their sirens and emergency lights.
The activist says he believed he was receiving a police escort to the downtown headquarters to surrender fugitive Derrick Forney, who was wanted on suspicion of shooting patrolman Matthew Richard two days earlier.
Quanell X and his Nation of Islam brethren have been handled with kid gloves in Houston for so long now that they’d justifiably assumed that they were held to a different standard. In point of fact, they have been. Every time Quanell X would raise his voice in protest, the Police Department and the Mayor’s Office would run for cover. Why wouldn’t they assume that they were due special treatment?
The mistake Quanell X made in this case was in harboring a member of the black community that was accused of shooting a police officer. One thing you do NOT do is expect special treatment when you are protecting someone accused of shooting a police officer- under any circumstances. Of course, Quanell X was just arrogant enough to assume that he would be treated like royalty regardless of his charge’s alleged offense. After all, he IS Quanell X. Well, arrogance goeth before a fall, eh?
The only thing that would have made this story even better would have been Quanell X being given some honest-to-God jail time. Yeah…that probably would have been a bit TOO much to expect, eh?
