Joe Horn protest

Quanell X led a rally in front of the Pasadena, Texas, home of Joe Horn on December 2, 2007. Horn had shot and killed two men, Hernando Riascos Torres (AKA Miguel Antonio DeJesus) and Diego Ortiz, illegal immigrants and members of a burglary and fake ID ring from Colombia. The pair had broken into a neighbor's house. Horn, against repeated requests of the 911 operator not to confront the burglars, exited his home to confront them. On the 911 tapes Horn exclaims, "Move, and you're dead", followed by three shotgun blasts.^[14]

Quanell X, who thought the shootings may have been racially motivated, approached Horn's house to speak to the media. There were several hundred counter-protesters present as well. The crowd of counter-protesters included bikers revving their motorcycles, many of them chanting, "USA", "Go home", and "We love our country; what do you love?" while waving placards, Texas flags, and US flags. Quanell X, while using a bullhorn, could not be heard over the noise.  After more supporters arrived, the counter-protests continued and riot police were readied in case of violence between the two groups. On June 25, 2008, the case was sent to a grand jury to decide whether or not Horn should go to trial. On June 30, 2008, Horn was cleared by a Harris County grand jury in the deaths of Ortiz and Diego after two weeks of testimony.^[15][16] Quanell X eventually made a speech on another street away from Horn's house. The speech included chants of "black power" and the exhortation for blacks to realize that "white laws"^[17] were written to protect white people especially when committing crimes against black and brown people.

2008 to 2010

On January 24, 2008, Quanell X called for Chuck Rosenthal's resignation following the email scandal that showed that he had sent and received racist messages while working in his official capacity. Quanell X organized a rally to take place outside the county courthouse.^[18] In October 2008, KTRK-TV reported that Quanell X received $20,000 (~$27,184 in 2022) for “consultation fees” to facilitate protests on their behalf to bring awareness to the public and to generate publicity during the related Iberra trial.^[19]

After being in police custody for several days, murder suspect Randy Sylvester Sr. would only confess to Quanell X and revealed the location of his missing children. Initially, Quanell X gave Sylvester the benefit of the doubt, but he was convinced otherwise when he went with Pasadena police to Sylvester’s  "dog house" (an apartment he maintained separately from his family's where Sylvester engaged in drugs and pornography.) Quanell X would not go into detail, but other things he learned in that apartment changed his mind about Sylvester. Quanell X convinced the suspect to "Do the right thing". With the Pasadena Police on site, Sylvester led Quanell X  to a location just outside of Pasadena, Texas, in Houston, where the charred remains of the children were located.^{[20][21][22][23]}

After 2010

In March 2011 Quanell X traveled to Cleveland, Texas, after the rape of an 11-year old Hispanic girl by 18 African American men, questioning why the girl did not do enough to stop the attack and placed some blame on the victim's parents.^[24]

On August 1, 2011, Quanell X pleaded with the residents of inner city neighborhoods to stop the "No Snitching" policy that institutes a bias of those who provide information to police after a series of crimes and murders had plagued the Third Ward area in recent weeks. He said, "The no-snitch policy does not work when you are forcing [sic] our elders and our women and our children live like hostages."^[25]

In July 2013, Quanell X and others protested and effectively blocked Texas State Highway 288 over the acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Not only did protesters successfully shut down Highway 288 but a large protest was also held in the affluent River Oaks neighborhood.^[26] Reports varied as to whether there were just under 1,000,^[27] or more than 1,000^[27][28] people attended the River Oaks demonstration and a counter-demonstration drew an estimated crowd of 80 people. Despite potential threats of violence, both sides kept the peace.^[29][30]

2023

In July 2023, Quanell X, along with local Houston reporter Grizzy Hood News, made national headlines after being involved in the case of Rudy Farias, a Houston man who went missing as a teenager in March 2015 and reappeared in 2023 in a case which Quanell X alleged involved captivity, physical abuse, mental abuse and sexual abuse by incest, and false statements by Farias' own mother Janie Santana. Quanell X also held press conferences, criticizing what he saw as a lack of immediate response by the Houston Police Department to the case. He further alleged incompetence and accused them of attempting to hide the facts after they contradicted his statements.^[31]