Posted on 06/17/2021 8:18:19 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The St. Louis, Mo., couple who went viral after staring down a group of protesters from their front porch have agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges in connection with the incident, pay fines and lose the guns seized during the investigation.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, two attorneys in their 60s, were charged in the summer of 2020 after a swarm of Black Lives Matter protesters broke down an iron gate and ignored a "No Trespassing" sign on their private street. The couple said they felt threatened and armed themselves before heading outside to warn off the crowd, which was on its way to the former mayor’s home. No one was hurt.
"They dropped all the weapons charges and they charged me with the lowest level of misdemeanor, which is something called assault four, which alleges that I purposely placed at least one other person in apprehension of immediate physical injury," Mark McCloskey told Fox News over the phone after returning from court Thursday. "I said, ‘Well, I guess I did. That was all point of the guns.’"
"It’s the value of the Second Amendment," McCloskey said. "It’s kind of humorous for me at any rate, the charge they finally settled on for me, because it’s exactly what I did do. That’s the whole point of the Second Amendment. We stood out there with guns, and that placed them in imminent fear of physical injury, and they back off."
The couple’s guns, seized after their initial arrests last year, will be destroyed, even though McCloskey’s attorney asked in court for the judge to allow his rifle to be donated to a charity auction.
"The good news is we’re not in front of charges now, so I don’t have any problem getting myself another AR," he said.
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They caved to survive.
Welcome to the Marxist Social Justice System.
Ok, didn’t the governor say he would pardon them? Let’s see if he keeps his word. Pardon them, give them their money back, and buy them new weapons. 👍
By avoiding more serious charges, he can still buy another AR.
I think he will.
They are gdm lawyers!
If anyone can make a case for i feared for my life so i exercised my 2a rights, two lawyers can.
They didn’t even shoot anyone. “Anyone” being a large crowd of armed people threatening to deal with them, who tore through their locked gate into private property.
I think he will do it, given the stance Missouri has taken against fedeeal gun laws recently.
Just a cost / benefit analysis.
That was Florida. Did Missouri Governor also say this? I hadn’t heard that.
“If we didn’t have somebody named George Soros in the world, we never would have been charged with anything,”
THIS ^ is nominated for the “Post Of The Day.
This post is a perfect example of why I use the less expensive, but most reliable weapons I can find for conceal carry and/or self defense; because IF one needs to pull/use em, one will most likely NEVER see them again regardless if one is 100% in the right. Sad, but true.
Gov should pardon them with full restoration of civil rights. Get to work Missouri folks.
The barefoot AR guy - ha! ‘Keep your boots on’ was my first thought.
It’s stupid but the prosecutors wanted to charge them with something so they got it. So they said fine and they went home afterwards. No biggie because there’s no restrictions on buying new firearms.
He is running for Roy Blunt’s Senate seat.
If had kept fighting he might have had a chance.
We need fighters, not compromisers.
“Protesters”
Just wait until he applies for a new gun and finds out he’s been red-flagged based on a prior gun conviction.
unfortunately soros has spawned other scum. So, even after he is rotten meat, we’ll still be dealing with them. Evil people.
they have the Castle Doctrine in that state- there is NO way he should have admitted guilt about anything-
““At any point that you enter the property, they can then, in Missouri, use deadly force to get you off the lawn,” Walker said. He described the castle doctrine as a “force field” that “indemnifies you, and you can even pull the trigger in Missouri.””
I’d try to get everything but the lower receiver back.
Just ask Michael Flynn how that works.
-PJ
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